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CARTIER. A FINE AND VERY RARE LADY'S PLATINUM ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH
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CARTIER. A FINE AND VERY RARE LADY'S PLATINUM ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH

SIGNED CARTIER, PARIS, CRASH MODEL, CASE NO. A110288, CIRCA 1992

Closed29 May 2013

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CARTIER. A FINE AND VERY RARE LADY'S PLATINUM ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH
SIGNED CARTIER, PARIS, CRASH MODEL, CASE NO. A110288, CIRCA 1992
Mechanical jewelled lever movement, silvered dial, black Roman numerals, secret signature at VII, asymmetrical case, back secured by four screws in the band, sapphire-set crown, 18k white gold Cartier Crash deployant buckle, case, dial and movement signed
38.5 mm. length

Specialist note

US$30,000-44,000


The "Crash" model is designed after the "Limp" watch in Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory from 1931, now exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dali got his inspiration for the "Limp" watch from camembert cheese and described it with the phrase, "nothing else than the tendor, extravagant and solitary paranoic-critical Camembert of time and space."

Cartier commenced production of the "Crash" watch in platinum in 1992 in a very limited series.