Gaston Rahier’s Cartier Cheich

Cartier created the Cheich as the trophy for a Paris-Dakar challenge; Gaston Rahier became the only recipient after winning the rally in both 1984 and 1985. His family retained the watch after his 2005 death and Sotheby’s sold it in Paris in September 2022 for €1,003,000. The object is individually identifiable rather than merely an example of its model, which is important for Arcarel’s object-level record. The cited Sotheby's source supplies the key provenance, event or institutional facts used here. No unnamed buyer or owner has been inferred, and fields not established by the source are left blank. Its significance comes from the combination of the physical watch and the documented people, events, institutions or market history attached to this specific specimen.

Culture

French

Medium

yellow gold

Origin

France