French 18k gold dress watch with guillotine dial Circa 1920
- Kenmerk
- TA3699
- Diameter
- 45 mm
- Estimate
- € 15.000 - 25.000
- Price sold
- € 22.050
Gold keyless dress watch
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An extremely rare and elegant French 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch with spring-loaded sliding shutter Roman dial and concealed 24-hour dial, circa 1920. The back set with a photographic portrait within a gold frame, front with small glazed aperture for the shuttered dial, revealing the 24-hour dial by pressing the button in the crown. Silvered satine engine-turned dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. 24-hour dial: silvered satine engine-turned, radial Arabic numerals from 13-24 and blued steel poire hands. A rhodium-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with eight adjustments, blued steel flat balance spring, and an index regulator. Dial and movement signed Cartier, Paris, case numbered.
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Diameter: 45 mm
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Signed: Cartier Paris
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This watch is an extremely rare and highly unusual variant of the famous Cartier shutter or guillotine watch. Instead of the more usual gold shutters covering the dial, the dial itself is bisected to form the shutters, when the button in the crown is depressed the dial opens to reveal a further matching dial with 24-hour numerals.
An extremely rare and elegant French 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch with spring-loaded sliding shutter Roman dial and concealed 24-hour dial, circa 1920. The back set with a photographic portrait within a gold frame, front with small glazed aperture for the shuttered dial, revealing the 24-hour dial by pressing the button in the crown. Silvered satine engine-turned dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. 24-hour dial: silvered satine engine-turned, radial Arabic numerals from 13-24 and blued steel poire hands. A rhodium-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with eight adjustments, blued steel flat balance spring, and an index regulator. Dial and movement signed Cartier, Paris, case numbered.
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Diameter: 45 mm
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Signed: Cartier Paris
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This watch is an extremely rare and highly unusual variant of the famous Cartier shutter or guillotine watch. Instead of the more usual gold shutters covering the dial, the dial itself is bisected to form the shutters, when the button in the crown is depressed the dial opens to reveal a further matching dial with 24-hour numerals.
Signed: Cartier Paris
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