Vintage Cartier at Auction

Despite rumors, the Cartier Crash was not the result of a literal car crash. Jean-Jacques Cartier and designer Rupert Emmerson deliberately bent and pinched the Maxi Oval into one of watchmaking's most radical case shapes. This yellow gold 1987 London Crash is one of only three believed to have been made that year. It leads an upcoming auction of more than 300 vintage Cartier timepieces assembled over 25 years by a single unnamed connoisseur. The collection spans every landmark silhouette the maison produced across its Paris, New York, and London ateliers: the Santos, Tank, Baignoire, Pebble, Decagonal, Asymétrique, Driver, and beyond, with particular depth in the London workshop's wildly experimental output between 1967 and 1974. Expected to surpass $15 million.

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