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Cartier clock sells for $200,000 at Antiquorum in Hong Kong
A Cartier clock featuring a calendar and petite sonnerie just sold at Antiquorum's Hong Kong sale for just under USD200,000. Made by Maurice Couet, also the genius behind the Cartier mystery clocks, this clock is the second most complicated comet clock Cartier made.
Here is the Antiquorum description:
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Cartier – Petite Sonnerie Gold & Nephrite Comet Clock The Second Most Complicated Comet Clock Made by Cartier and the only example with Petite Sonnerie to be Offered at Auction Cartier, Paris, No. 2650, the movement by European Watch & Clock Co., Inc., France. Made in the Cartier workshop by Maurice Couet, circa 1930. Magnificent, extremely fine and rare, 8-day going, gold and silver mounted nephrite desk clock with Petite Sonnerie striking, date and days of the week calendar, moon phases and alarm. Accompanied by the original numbered key and a Cartier certificate.
Sold for 1,520,000 HKD including buyer's premium
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