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Lot Essay
The luxurious watches produced for Cartier’s highly exclusive ‘Collection Privé’ are made in small limited editions that showcase the very best of the company’s immeasurable contribution to watch design over the last century. Always greatly oversubscribed and much coveted, the Collection Privé encompasses contemporary interpretations of some of Cartier’s most celebrated and legendary models that have captivated generations of the company’s clients.
First created in 1922 as an avant-garde alternative to the round and rectangular wristwatches of the time, the Cartier ‘Cloche’ got its name due to the bell-shape of the case, ‘Cloche’ being the French word for bell. Ingeniously, the asymmetrical design of the case and the atypical dial layout whereby the XII numeral is adjacent to the crown allows for the watch to be used as a miniature desk clock.
First created in 1922 as an avant-garde alternative to the round and rectangular wristwatches of the time, the Cartier ‘Cloche’ got its name due to the bell-shape of the case, ‘Cloche’ being the French word for bell. Ingeniously, the asymmetrical design of the case and the atypical dial layout whereby the XII numeral is adjacent to the crown allows for the watch to be used as a miniature desk clock.