74,750 CHF
"Pendulette de voyage à répétition minutes", 18K yellow gold and onyx, eight day going, minute repeating carriage dock Paris, 1925 Notes Between 1925 and 1930, king fisher feathers were occasionally used for the decoration of dock dials and exceptionally for other parts of the the dock itself. ln Cartier - Splendeurs de la Joaillerie, Catalogue of the exhibition in Lausanne at the Fondation de l'Hermitage 1996, the dial of a small strut dock in nephrite was covered with a fine mosaic made of king fisher feathers (No. 72 page 43) and and a rock crystal mystery dock "Modèle A", (No. 105 page 52) had the chapter ring and the frame covered with a mosaic of king fisher feathers. Due to their fragility, king fisher feathers were scarcely used by Cartier and docks decorated with them are extremely rare. Together with lot No. 431 this dock demonstrates the highly decorative quality of such an unusual element which apparently has never been used by other makers. Provenance: Previously in the H. Robert Green Collection, this dock was exhibited in New York at the Rétrospective - Louis Cartier, No. 112 of the catalogue, page 59.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1996-11-19
