Belle Epoque arch-shaped desk clock, the silver case guilloché in front and on the sides with a fish-scale pattern and enamelled Prussian blue, further bordered with a white enamel line, platinum arrow-shaped hands set with rose-cut diamonds, white enamel dial with black Arabic numbers and gold minute sectors bordered with white enamel dots. The feet applied with platinum rosettes set with rose-cut diamonds. Brass folding strut in the back.

Signed Cartier  (on the dial)

Numbered with Cartier Paris stock number ; entered Cartier Paris stock in 1913

Boar’s head hallmark (French hallmark for silver)

Maker : Bako workshop

H. : 7,9 cm      W. : 6,6 cm   Th.: 1,9 cm

Ivory back set aside

Illustrated “Cartier, Exceptional Objects”, O. Bachet and A. Cartier, 2019, Palais Royal Ed., Hong Kong, vol. 2, page 100.

PRICE: USD 28,500