Cartier, a gold and enamel pocket watch and vesta case, circa 1908, composed of a pocket watch with

Cartier, a gold and enamel pocket watch and vesta case, circa 1908, composed of a pocket watch with a circular gilt engine-turned dial with black enamel indicators, blue steel hands and a subsidiary seconds dial, connected by a chain of baton linking spaced by seed pearls to a circular vesta case, the hinged lid to the match compartment opening via a rose-cut diamond push piece, one edge with a striking strip, all applied with translucent violet guilloché enamel and bands of white enamel, watch 6.2cm including suspension hoop, watch signed Cartier, French import assay mark for 18ct gold, chain with French assay mark for 18ct gold and French maker's mark TT, pearls untested; vesta case 6cm including jump ring, signed Cartier Paris, French assay marks for 18ct gold, indistinct maker's mark, fitted case stamped Cartier

Cf.: Olivier Bachet and Alain Cartier, Cartier: Exceptional Objects, Palais Royal, 2019, p.149 and 152 for vesta cases of similar design, by Henri Lavabre for Cartier, circa 1908