Cartier Paris Accordion Clock With Date and White Roman Numeral Dial Circa 1980

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Cartier Paris Accordion Clock with Date and White Roman Numeral Dial.
Large Cartier Model Accordion burlwood brown enamel Art Deco … Read more Cartier Paris Accordion Clock with Date and White Roman Numeral Dial.
Large Cartier Model Accordion burlwood brown enamel Art Deco quartz movement, gold tone base metal.
Les Must de Cartier oval accordion vintage heavy desk clock with date and white roman numeral dial.
Comes complete with red leather covered presentation case.
Face signed Cartier Paris.
It is vintage from the 1980s.
It is marked Cartier Paris Swiss Movement and numbered.
Features an Art Deco style.
The battery was just changed and is in great working order.
This makes a great desk accessory night stand clock or shelf clock.
Luxurious gift for a woman or man.
Elegant, stately and timeless it is a Cartier.
Original case and certificate enclosed.
The box included is in great condition.
Clock measures: 5.75" w x 2.75" d x 3" H.
Box size: 8" W x 5.5" D x 4" H.
Circa 1980, Swiss movement.
Great Condition: Material: Metal Enamel.
Movement: Battery Operated.
Maison Cartier -Société Cartier designs, manufactures, distributes and sells jewellery and watches.
Founded in Paris, France in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, the company remained under family control until 1964. The company maintains its headquarters in Paris and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA.
Cartier is well known for its jewellery and wrist watches, including the "Bestiary" (best illustrated by the Panthère brooch of the 1940s created for Wallis Simpson), the diamond necklace created for Bhupinder Singh the Maharaja of Patiala and the first practical wristwatch, the "Santos," of 1904.
Cartier has a long history of sales to royalty and celebrities. King Edward VII of England referred to Cartier as "the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers." For his coronation in 1902, Edward VII ordered 27 tiaras and issued a royal warrant to Cartier in 1904.
Similar warrants soon followed from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Russia, Siam, Greece, Serbia, Belgium, Romania, Egypt, Albania, Monaco, and the House of Orleans.
The Cartier tradition of clock and watch making extends almost as far back as the founding of the company. In 1898, Louis Cartier, one of the three Cartier brothers and grandson of founder Louis-François, moved to 13 rue de La Paix with his father, Alfred. Louis was a talented creator of jewels and art objects, and confirmed his talent by tying his craft with clock making traditions, lost now for more than a century. Thereafter, Cartier's clocks, table clocks, and watches were manufactured with an emphasis on perfection, beauty and originality. Clock making, at first a secondary activity, became the predominant activity and prestige of Cartier. See less