A record collection of vintage Cartier timepieces, spanning nearly a century of the maison’s most coveted designs, is being auctioned at Sotheby’s, with sales kicking off in Hong Kong later this month.
Entitled “The Shapes of Cartier: The Finest Vintage Grouping Ever Assembled,” the offerings are expected to fetch in excess of $15 million across the auction house’s sales in Hong Kong, Geneva and New York through December.
It contains over 300 watches and represents a quarter-century of collecting by a single connoisseur who sought out the finest examples from each of Cartier’s historic ateliers in Paris, London and New York.
The crown jewel of the offering in Hong Kong is a rare yellow-gold Cartier London Crash from 1987, believed to be one of only three produced that year and estimated at $400 000 to $800 000. The Crash, with its deliberately distorted case, is one of horology’s
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