Rare Gouvernail: DoubleSigned Diamonds & Rubys Helm, Wittnauer
Longines Diamonds & Rubys Helm: DoubleSigned Gouvernail-PocketWatch, Platinum
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EmailWHY WE LOVE IT? Is it the earliest "The Helm"? Well, Cartier started to make its classic (Helm / Ronde Squelette / Timone / Gouvernail -- you name it) in the late 1930s -- approx 4y later than this 1935-made -- and so besides being a beautiful and interesting pocketwatch it is a historical & spicy one on top: the model for the Cartier-Helm?
We all know the so popular Cartier Helm / Gouvernail / Timone with the first examples appearing at the end of the 1930s and most in the 1950s and 1960s. Such a unique Cartier-desing, right? Maybe not. The Cartier-pocketwatch (platinum, super-rare) on the last photo on the left was made in 1955, for example. Beautiful, yes. But this Longines-timepiece is very similar, also made of platinum and was made in 1935 according to the included Excerpt of the Longines-Archive: diamonds, rubys and pure Art Deco. And there are even more similarities: they both share the same dimensions, the same dial (a railroad-minutetrack) and more often than not the exact same hands. #SameOrDifferent? Amazing & Surprising.
A Cartier like this watch in platinum and similar quality, with original dial (which most Cartiers dont have today anymore, very obviously) and documentation (Excerpt of Archive) would be an amazing find and worth a crazy price... When you rate this Longines irrelevant because it is all all-similar to a Cartier instead of the brand-print, then this reveals that you are not really into watches but brand-names for show-off... and now I think about sending it to Italy for a dial-refreshment with a different print... :-) No, just a joke.
