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The present elegant platinum dress watch is a unique opportunity to acquire a time piece that belonged to the prodigious and highly esteemed French dramatist Sachy Guitry who strongly influenced the theatrical and arts world through his brilliant career.
According to the archives of Vacheron Constantin the movement of this watch was manufactured in 1926 and sold to France, most probably to be cased by a famous French jeweler such as Verger Frères, a very common procedure at the time. These relationships have led to some very delicate and remarkable pieces of art, perfectly representing the Art deco period, such as the present watch.
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the son of the successful French actor Lucien Guitry, who embarked his son to make a stage debut in his company at the age of 5. This first experiment, combined with the love his father devoted to theatre, could have broaden the little boy’s mind to the arts field as Sacha soon abandoned his formal education to get involved in a playwriting and acting career.
It is difficult to draw an absolute distinction between his work as an actor and as a playwright, for his art was always to some extent in the nature of brilliant improvisation. His output was enormous: he had over 90 plays produced out of 130 that he wrote, including a number of serious plays for his father to act in. He wrote, directed, and acted in many motion pictures, of which the best known was perhaps Roman d’un tricheur (1936 Confessions of a Cheat in English). This films is inspired by a book he wrote himself in 1935: Mémoires d’un tricheur. He was made commander of the Legion of Honour in 1936 and elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1939.
In 1953, he made his last stage appearance in Paris in Palsambleu and continued to make films until 1957. Guitry died in Paris at the age of seventy-two. Twelve thousand people filed past his coffin, and he was buried, like his father, in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.
We can certainly affirm that Sacha Guitry was very intense and passionate about his writing and it is probably with the same emotion and praise that he was carefully collecting rare and exceptional art pieces such as this stylish platinum and diamond-set dress watch which is an admirable example of the Art Deco era.
According to the archives of Vacheron Constantin the movement of this watch was manufactured in 1926 and sold to France, most probably to be cased by a famous French jeweler such as Verger Frères, a very common procedure at the time. These relationships have led to some very delicate and remarkable pieces of art, perfectly representing the Art deco period, such as the present watch.
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the son of the successful French actor Lucien Guitry, who embarked his son to make a stage debut in his company at the age of 5. This first experiment, combined with the love his father devoted to theatre, could have broaden the little boy’s mind to the arts field as Sacha soon abandoned his formal education to get involved in a playwriting and acting career.
It is difficult to draw an absolute distinction between his work as an actor and as a playwright, for his art was always to some extent in the nature of brilliant improvisation. His output was enormous: he had over 90 plays produced out of 130 that he wrote, including a number of serious plays for his father to act in. He wrote, directed, and acted in many motion pictures, of which the best known was perhaps Roman d’un tricheur (1936 Confessions of a Cheat in English). This films is inspired by a book he wrote himself in 1935: Mémoires d’un tricheur. He was made commander of the Legion of Honour in 1936 and elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1939.
In 1953, he made his last stage appearance in Paris in Palsambleu and continued to make films until 1957. Guitry died in Paris at the age of seventy-two. Twelve thousand people filed past his coffin, and he was buried, like his father, in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.
We can certainly affirm that Sacha Guitry was very intense and passionate about his writing and it is probably with the same emotion and praise that he was carefully collecting rare and exceptional art pieces such as this stylish platinum and diamond-set dress watch which is an admirable example of the Art Deco era.