Thought to have been inspired by Salvador Dali’s surrealistic paintings, the Cartier Crash watch has in fact a more macabre story behind it. Legend says that Cartier employees found a Cartier Baignoire watch in the embers of a car crash. The watch case had melted into the shape of Salvador Dali’s watch in The Persistence of Memory, which inspired the company to produce a similar watch, aptly named "Crash". Nevertheless, imagination and creativity are the signature of Cartier and the present Crash, far from stories of accidents, with its asymmetrical case is glamorous, groovy and edgy. Born in London's swinging sixties, it fully captures the energy of Cool Britannia. Always released in very limited series since its original introduction in 1967, the present lot with its dazzling pavé diamond case, is an ultimate expression of Cartier’s exquisite style and feminine sophistication.