Original Cartier Crash Watch

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Original cartier crash watch. Some believe the melted timepieces in salvador dalis most recognizable work the persistence of memory inspired its fluid shape. Created in 1967 the crash watch captures the unmistakable verve of swinging london in the sixties. The cartier crash began life as a cartier baignoire allonge on the wrist of a cartier vice president who was killed in a fiery car accident in london in the mid 1960s. French watchmakers cartier is a 6 billion company dating back more than 170 years.

It crystallizes the encounter between the great creator of shaped watches and the joyful popular transgressive current that overturned conformity. Welsh melted and distorted beyond recognition the baignoire allonge model is the purported muse behind the cartier crash watch. The story goes that in the 1960s a cartier executive died in a london automobile accident. The crash watch with its amazing dream like curved forms is cartiers most radical watch design.

Whch0006cartier mechanical legends crash skeleton watch 2815 mm pink gold case skeleton dial gray alligator strap. Created in 1967 the crash watch captures the unmistakable verve of swinging london in the sixties. However details surrounding one of its most famous watches the crash are still a bit sketchy. The original cartier crash watch of 1967 was inspired by a cartier timepiece retrieved from a blazing car crash.

Cartier crash watches listings under 75000 newunworn pre owned. 2815mm x 4532mm 18k pink gold case 962mm thick sapphire back 18k beaded pink gold crown with a blue sapphire cabochon and blued steel sword shaped hands mineral crystal skeleton dial with bridges forming roman numerals and blued steel sword shaped hands caliber 9618 mc manual movement approximately 3 days of power reserve gray alligator skin. Created in 1967 reputedly inspired by a watch damaged in a car crash but more likely the result of the incredible creativity and craft of cartier london the crash has only ever been produced in limited numbers. Manual winding 1 no details 1 case material.

The damaged baignoire gave the jeweller jean jacques cartier inspiration to the first ever made as he believes asymmetric case of the watch which symbolizes non conformism and creative freedom. The baignoire allonge meaning elongated bathtub in french watch has an elliptical shape kind of like that of an eye or an almond.