Offered by Richard Redding Antiques
Leading antique and fine art gallery, specialises in the finest French clocks.
A beautiful miniature Art Deco ivory and silver carriage clock of day duration, signed on the white enamel dial Cartier Paris-Londres, housed in its original red leather travelling box with original key. The dial with Arabic numerals and pair of diamond studded hands for the hours and minutes and a silvered pointer for the alarm. The movement with cylinder escapement and alarm. The rectangular ivory case bearing the owner's monogrammed initials 'FJD on an enamel plaque upon the top, with silver bezel, on a stepped base.
Paris, date circa 1920-25
Height: 8cm
Literature: J.Barracca, G.Negretti and F. Fencini, "Le temps de Cartier", 1989, pp. 40-41