Cartier Crash

CARTIER. A FINE LIMITED EDITION PLATINUM ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH

CARTIER. A FINE LIMITED EDITION PLATINUM ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH Signed Cartier, Paris, "Crash", No. 003-92, A 109835, circa 1992 With nickel-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, glucydur balance, silvered matte dial with stylized Roman numerals, secret Cartier signature at seven o'clock, the asymmetrical case of unusual form, the back secured by four screws, cabochon sapphire-set crown, case, dial and movement signed , with an 18k white gold Cartier deployant buckle 38mm lengthThe "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, of which the present watch represents number 3. An example of a "Crash" watch is illustrated in Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, Le Temps de Cartier , p. 295.