An edition of course limited to 150 numbered examples, but one that set the watchmaking community on fire as soon as it was announced.
While the 1967 Crash watch has been on everyone’s lips recently (a ‘Crash London’ edition on Loupe This last May fetched more than €1.5 million), this is another Cartier milestone from the past returning to center stage. this month. In view, the Pebble, also nicknamed “Baseball”, probably unknown to the newborns, but whose legend will no longer be written among enthusiasts of the genre (as proof: the version 70’s worn by collector Auro Montanari below).
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Like many horological treasures of the time, we owe this shaped watch to Jean-Jacques Cartier (the last heir in charge of the subsidiaries), who unveiled this graphic dial without a signal in London in 1972, on the brink of the economic crisis. From the great history of the forgotten house, Pebble nevertheless offered a surprise return in 2021, when the old 35.5 mm version reached more than €400,000 at Phillips. Here, it will cost more than €40,000 to buy one of the 150 neo Pebbles being released by Cartier this month to mark the model’s 50th anniversary. See you soon trading second hand gold prices…
Source: Le Figaro
