{"product_id":"cartier-paris-londres-18k-gold-ruby-set-pocket-watch-circa-1925","title":"18ct Gold, a Full Baguette Ruby Border, c.1925","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA signed Cartier dress pocket watch in solid 18k gold, ringed with a full baguette ruby border. Jewellery-grade Cartier from the height of the Art Deco period, and it still runs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Cartier evening watch of the mid-1920s, at the scale the house judged right for the job: 31mm of solid 18k gold, slim enough for the pocket of a dinner jacket, wound and set from the pendant. What lifts it beyond the plain gold examples is the caseband: a continuous border of baguette rubies, channel-set the whole way round, every stone present. In the hand the border reads as a thin line of colour; under light it comes alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is two-tone silver with an engine-turned centre, stylised Art Deco Arabic numerals and blued Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip, signed Cartier, Paris-Londres. It is original and untouched, carrying light spotting to the centre and around the upper numerals exactly as an unrestored dial of this age should, with the signature still crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCartier in the 1920s was making watches as jewellery and jewellery as watches, and this piece sits precisely on that line: a working lever movement inside a case built like a ring. The movement winds smoothly, sets correctly and runs well. The gold shows the honest scratches of an evening watch that went out often; the rubies show only light surface wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGem-set Cartier pocket watches were made in small numbers and tend to stay in collections once they arrive. This one is complete, signed, running and whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the movement's attribution is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cartier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54369705787731,"sku":"PW-0096","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/cartier-18k-yellow-gold-calibre-ruby-set-band-pocket-watch-23_hero.jpg?v=1785325110","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/cartier-paris-londres-18k-gold-ruby-set-pocket-watch-circa-1925","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}