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33 - CARTIER – BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, PARIS, 750‰ yellow gold po…
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Estimate €3,500 - €4,000
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CARTIER – BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, PARIS, 750‰ yellow gold pocket watch, white enamelled dial with Roman numerals for the hours, railway-track minute track, Arabic numerals for the minutes, gilded openwork hands, the reverse side features a polychrome enamelled design presumably depicting the goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius, holding a snake in her left hand (or perhaps an Allegory of Prudence) within a medallion rendered to resemble porphyry, the whole set against a blue guilloché background, decorated with a frieze of rows of pearls, mechanical hand-wound movement signed ‘LeCoultre & Co’, between 1859 and 1899, double horse’s head hallmark, silversmith’s hallmark (S G, key; probably Société Générale des Monteurs de Boîtes, Besançon), silversmith’s mark (uncertain, on three lines: bee /JO / 2 or Z), case back and dust cover numbered “1716” - Diameter approx. 30 mm - Gross weight approx. 26.55 g (the winding crown is functional; operation not guaranteed; requires servicing) COMMENTARY ON THE HOUSE OF CARTIER: The House of Cartier was founded in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, and the boutique remained at 9 Boulevard des Italiens from 1859 until 1899, when Louis Cartier, his grandson, moved the business to 13 Rue de la Paix. COMMENT ON THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN CARTIER AND LECOULTRE: The formalised collaboration between Cartier and the LeCoultre company (via the exclusivity agreement) is generally dated to 1907 — that is, after the move to Rue de la Paix. This does not mean that a LeCoultre movement could not have been used prior to that date: LeCoultre supplied movements and movement blanks to numerous Parisian watchmakers and jewellers long before this exclusive agreement, and Cartier, like many firms of the time, did not manufacture its own movements in-house but sourced them from several Swiss suppliers.
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About the sale MEMENTO AMORI
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Auction time 07/11/2026 at 2:00 PM
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