CARTIER No. 3091 Lot n° 1

CARTIER No. 3091 No. 3671 Beginning of the 20th Century Enamelled table clock. Round case resting on a gold-plated silver easel, the movement cover in gold-plated metal (transformations). The case is entirely adorned with a transparent turquoise enamel (lacks to the enamel). White enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes, outer minute track. Mechanical movement (the winding crown to adjust hours and minutes missing, as well as the one for the mainspring). With a presentation case of the same period in green morocco, bearing the inscription: "CARTIER 13, Rue de la Paix 4, New Burlington St". Diam. 82 mm In 1902, Pierre Cartier and his younger brother, Jacques, moved across the Channel to London in order to set up the first boutique at 4 New Burlington Street, in the most sought-after area of the great capital. It took them only two years to become the official supplier to the Crown, with the support of King Edward VII. Having suffered the patina of time with some accidents and missing enamel, this piece demonstrates the quality of the execution on the enamel, directly inspired by Faberge's work, at the same time for the Russian imperial court. Rare as it comes with its original case, it is the symbol of the first hours of glory of the House of Cartier, considered since then as "the king of jewellers and the jewellers of kings".