French gold perpetual calendar and chronograph Circa 1928
- Kenmerk
- SA0523
- Diameter
- 50 mm
- Estimate
- € 25.000 - 50.000
- Price sold
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Rare gold perpetual calendar single-button chronograph watch
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A fine and rare French yellow gold open faced perpetual calendar single button chronograph keyless watch with dual time zone indication, circa 1928, nickel lever movement, 23 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, precision regulation.
Silvered dial, Roman numerals, outer ring calibrated for seconds and 1/5 seconds, blued steel Breguet hands, blued steel hand with pear shaped gold terminal indicating the second time zone, rectangular aperture for day, date and month in English, subsidiary seconds.
18k Yellow gold polished case, single-button chronograph pusher to the stem, applied monogram to the case back, dial and movement signed Cartier, Paris
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Signed: Cartier Paris
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With a certificate and setting tool.
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A fine and rare French yellow gold open faced perpetual calendar single button chronograph keyless watch with dual time zone indication, circa 1928, nickel lever movement, 23 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, precision regulation.
Silvered dial, Roman numerals, outer ring calibrated for seconds and 1/5 seconds, blued steel Breguet hands, blued steel hand with pear shaped gold terminal indicating the second time zone, rectangular aperture for day, date and month in English, subsidiary seconds.
18k Yellow gold polished case, single-button chronograph pusher to the stem, applied monogram to the case back, dial and movement signed Cartier, Paris
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Signed: Cartier Paris
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With a certificate and setting tool.
Within the famous Cartier family it was Louis Cartier who was most passionate about watches. He gained fame when he created a wristwatch for his friend, the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. Thus, around 1904 the famous Santos was born, which made wristwatches suddenly a very desirable object among fashionable gentlemen. Nonetheless, the charm of pocket watches did not cease and parallel to well-known wristwatch models, such as the Tonneau, Tortue and Baignoire, pocket watches were still produced.
This pocket watch features the day, date and month, a chronograph as well as two time zones. It is extremely rare to find a Cartier watch from this period that combines these features.
After World War I traveling was made easier: the roads slowly started to fill with cars, with the Ford T being regarded as the first affordable automobile, and the airship Graf Zeppelin made its first long-distance journey in 1928. Thus the men and women who used the modern ways of transport would have found great support in a pocket watch as the present piece.
After World War I traveling was made easier: the roads slowly started to fill with cars, with the Ford T being regarded as the first affordable automobile, and the airship Graf Zeppelin made its first long-distance journey in 1928. Thus the men and women who used the modern ways of transport would have found great support in a pocket watch as the present piece.
Signed: Cartier
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