拍品 49Sold to Benefit the ETH Zurich Foundation:
The ETH Zurich Foundation builds bridges between ETH Zurich and companies, foundations, organisations and private individuals to ensure that ETH Zurich can drive forward in its strategic endeavours and maintain its leading global position.
As Switzerland’s foremost technology foundation, it specifically supports ETH Zurich in achieving its objectives in education and research. Partners gain access to wonderful partnerships and visionary programmes shared with Europe’s best university.
With these activities, the ETH Zurich Foundation aims to encourage progress and enable donors to experience the real benefits of their commitment. It brings together society, industry and science. Exploring the limits of knowledge together and creating added value is what makes this partnership so fascinating and important.
The ETH Zurich Foundation builds bridges between ETH Zurich and companies, foundations, organisations and private individuals to ensure that ETH Zurich can drive forward in its strategic endeavours and maintain its leading global position.
As Switzerland’s foremost technology foundation, it specifically supports ETH Zurich in achieving its objectives in education and research. Partners gain access to wonderful partnerships and visionary programmes shared with Europe’s best university.
With these activities, the ETH Zurich Foundation aims to encourage progress and enable donors to experience the real benefits of their commitment. It brings together society, industry and science. Exploring the limits of knowledge together and creating added value is what makes this partnership so fascinating and important.
CARTIER, PALLADIUM TANK MC SKELETON WRISTWATCH, REF. W5310026
MOVEMENT NO. 1817, CASE NO. 134, 3553
已結束2020年7月21日
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CHF 15,000–25,000
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Launched in 2013, the Tank MC Skeleton is Cartier’s first wristwatch with skeletonized dial/movement in a Tank case. Its caliber 9611 MC is also the firm’s first entirely in-house made skeletonized movement, the MC standing for Manufacture Cartier. Equipped with twin barrels it provides a power reserve of 72 hours.
The model impresses with its large, masculine palladium case and the skeletonized movement and dial of highly innovative design: the openwork bridges ingeniously form oversized Roman numerals, signature of Cartier’s skeletonized models.
While rarer than white gold or platinum, the sleek, silvery-white sheen of palladium renders it a perfect alternative to these precious metals. This very hard material it is also more resistant to scratches or dents and will retain its shiny lustre. The English scientist Dr. William Hyde Wollaston first distinguished it as a unique metal apart from platinum in 1803. Impressed by its beauty and hardness, he named it after the recently discovered asteroid Pallas.
The model impresses with its large, masculine palladium case and the skeletonized movement and dial of highly innovative design: the openwork bridges ingeniously form oversized Roman numerals, signature of Cartier’s skeletonized models.
While rarer than white gold or platinum, the sleek, silvery-white sheen of palladium renders it a perfect alternative to these precious metals. This very hard material it is also more resistant to scratches or dents and will retain its shiny lustre. The English scientist Dr. William Hyde Wollaston first distinguished it as a unique metal apart from platinum in 1803. Impressed by its beauty and hardness, he named it after the recently discovered asteroid Pallas.