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Cartier. A Platinum Openface Dress Watch with Sapphire and Ruby-set Fob
Lot 18

Cartier. A Platinum Openface Dress Watch with Sapphire and Ruby-set Fob

Signed Cartier, Paris, Case No. 4893, EJ for Edmond Jaeger, Circa 1910

Closed16 December 2015

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Cartier. A Platinum Openface Dress Watch with Sapphire and Ruby-set Fob



Signed Cartier, Paris, Case No. 4893, EJ for Edmond Jaeger, Circa 1910



Nickel-finished lever movement, bimetallic compensation balance, 18 jewels, 8 adjustments, silvered guilloché dial, inner chapter ring with roman numerals, outer railroad minute divisions and Arabic numerals at 5 minute intervals, blued steel hands, polished circular case with coin-edge band, case back monogram CG in blue enamel Art Deco style, platinum fob with initials CB set with sapphires and rubies, case, dial and movement signed Cartier Paris, case with French hallmarks and further stamped EJ for Edmond Jaeger
44mm diam.

Property from the de Guigne Collection

Specialist note

During the early years of the 20th century, Cartier contracted the celebrated French watchmaker Edmond Jaeger to make watches for Cartier branded timepieces. Cartier guaranteed 250,000 Fr. of business to Edmond Jaeger and the presently offered watch, being offered for the first time at auction, is a fine example of this collaboration.

The De Guigne provenance and initials add to the remarkable history of the present timepiece.