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Condition: Excellent
Year of Production: 1925
Case Size: 49mm
Case Material: Yellow gold
Dial Color: Silver
Bracelet/Strap: -
Movement Type: Manual
Box: No
Papers: No
Location: Singapore
Estimates 25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description
Brand Cartier, Paris
Year circa 1925
Calibre 18’’’, manual-winding, 26 jewels
Case No. 22 174
Material/s yellow gold (18-carat)
Dimensions Ø 49.1 mm.
Thickness 9.9 mm.
Weight 76,5 gr. (approx.)
Signature dial and movement Cartier
Art Deco Doctor’s pocket watch, single-button chronograph, minute counter, pulsometer scale; yellow gold (18-carat) I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. (Revelation 2:19) Yellow gold (18-carat), open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, Art Deco pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and two horological complications:
1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single push-piece crown at 12 o’clock) with pulsometric scale graduated on the dial for 200 units per hour and 30 pulsations
outer ring divided in 200
30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock) Case: three-piece, “Bassine pincé”, polished; round-shaped clipped bow. Case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the cypher “C O’ B”. Inside case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with a verse from the Bible “I KNOW THY WORKS, / AND CHARITY, AND SERVICE, / AND FAITH, AND THY PATIENCE, / AND THY WORKS; AND THE LAST / TO BE MORE THAN THE FIRST. / REVELATION 2.19”. Dial: silver colour, with black painted radiating Roman numerals; external minute track divided five by five with black painted radiating lines and internal black painted radiating Arabic numerals (5-60); blued steel “Breguet” hands. Movement: made by European Watch and Clock Co. Inc., Swiss, calibre 18’’’, 26 jewels, rhodium-plated, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator, 8 adjustments; chronograph work on the top plate.