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Lot Essay
Signed ‘Cartier France’ with applied gold Breguet numerals and blued Breguet hands, the present watch encapsulates all that is best from Cartier’s golden age of the 1920s. To wear this classic Cartier wristwatch is to recall the supreme elegance of that era yet proclaiming a still modern beauty.
The square form Cartier watch was established around 1915. It is thought that Cartier’s revolutionary clean and modern wristwatch designs at this early period were inspired by the de Stijl art movement, in particular the painter Piet Mondrian and the beauty of mathematics and geometry.
Both the case and movement of the present watch are signed European Watch & Clock Co. Inc., the case is correctly numbered on both parts and can accordingly be dated to 1929.
European Watch & Clock Co.
In the early 1920s Cartier formed a joint company with Edward Jaeger (of Jaeger-LeCoultre) to make movements specifically for Cartier watches and clocks, the company was named the European Watch & Clock Company Inc. and has become the most associated with vintage Cartier watches. Collectors particularly esteem a Cartier watch with the now familiar signature on the movement 'European Watch & Clock Co. Inc.'.
The square form Cartier watch was established around 1915. It is thought that Cartier’s revolutionary clean and modern wristwatch designs at this early period were inspired by the de Stijl art movement, in particular the painter Piet Mondrian and the beauty of mathematics and geometry.
Both the case and movement of the present watch are signed European Watch & Clock Co. Inc., the case is correctly numbered on both parts and can accordingly be dated to 1929.
European Watch & Clock Co.
In the early 1920s Cartier formed a joint company with Edward Jaeger (of Jaeger-LeCoultre) to make movements specifically for Cartier watches and clocks, the company was named the European Watch & Clock Company Inc. and has become the most associated with vintage Cartier watches. Collectors particularly esteem a Cartier watch with the now familiar signature on the movement 'European Watch & Clock Co. Inc.'.