25,300 CHF
Cartier, Paris, No. 4138, circa 1915.Very fine hunting-cased, two-tone, platinum and yellow gold 'montre Couteau savonnette' extra thin keyless dress watch, accompanied by a platinum chain, in original leather fitted box. Two-body, very thin coin-edge (0.8 mm), polished. Silver, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, engine-turned in a sunburst pattern, blued-steel Breguet hands under yellow gold, engine-turned bezel. 17’’’, matte gilding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel flat balance spring, jeweled to the center.Signed on the dial, stamped with Edmond Jaeger’s trademark stamp inside back cover.Diam. 50 mm., 4.16 mm. thick. Notes A similar watch in a knife-edge case was sold by Antiquorum on 19 Nov. 1996, at The Magical Art of Cartier sale, lot No. 101.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-10-15
