Phillips Watches in Association with Bacs & Russo is proud to present an exceptional, unique, and museum-quality nephrite clock by Cartier in the 1920s, exemplifying the brand’s artistic brilliance of the Art Deco. It will be offered in the Evening Session of The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XX on 23 May.
Besides its exceptional workmanship, the clock has two fascinating royal provenances. Identified by the crown topped by a half crescent and a star on the top of the clock, and further confirmed by a recently rediscovered commercial invoice issued by Cartier, this Egyptian Royal Crown was added on the clock for the occasion of Princess Fawzia’s wedding on 15 March 1939 to the Crown Prince of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The team of specialists at Phillips Watches is dedicated to an uncompromised approach to quality, transparency, and client service. Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo holds the world record for the most successful watch auction, with its Geneva Watch Auction: XIV having realized $74.5 million in 2021. Over the course of 2021 and 2022, the company sold 100% of the watches offered, a first in the industry, resulting in the highest annual total in history across all the auction houses at $227 million.