{"product_id":"solid-onyx-dress-watch-diamond-set-caseback-c-1925","title":"Solid Onyx Dress Watch, Diamond-Set Caseback, c.1925","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA disc of solid black onyx with a full one-carat old-cut diamond set into its back and Cartier's name across a silvered dial. Art Deco dress watchmaking at its most confident, and one of the rarest forms Cartier ever gave a pocket watch.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a disc of solid black onyx, 48.2mm across, polished to a deep even shine, hung from a triangular platinum bow with a fluted crown seated between its prongs. Against that black ground Cartier set everything that matters: a ring of gold Roman numerals on black enamel, a silvered guilloché centre signed Cartier, blued steel Breguet hands, and, in the middle of the caseback, a single old-cut diamond of a full carat that catches the light every time the watch is turned over. It tells the time and does nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnyx gives the watch its character and its rarity at once: unforgiving to work when the case was made, and easy to chip in any year since. This example has kept its edges and its shine, the surfaces clean, the stone whole, with only the light surface marks of age to the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook closely and the detailing is late Cartier at its most exact: beaded gold tracks framing the chapter ring, small gold florets at the hours, Arabic minute numerals in the outer ring, the deep blue of the hands floating over the pale silver centre. Nothing is loud, and everything is deliberate. Between the black stone, the white metal and the single white diamond, the watch reads as jewellery first and mechanism second, which is exactly how Cartier meant it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds through the fluted crown, sets cleanly and runs as it should, and it keeps the small thing that usually vanishes first: its original red Cartier pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; Cartier's maker of record is set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cartier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54464700547411,"sku":"PW-0114","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/cartier-solid-onyx-case-platinum-bow-gold-numerals-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785657262","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/solid-onyx-dress-watch-diamond-set-caseback-c-1925","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}