Cartier Le Must — Solid 18k Gold Jacket, Godron, With Box
A vintage must de Cartier pocket lighter with a solid gold jacket in the fine godron ribbing Cartier used across the Le Must line, offered in its original red Cartier box.
The Le Must lighters are built around an oval case rather than the flat rectangle most French makers settled on, and the shape is what you notice first — it sits in the hand like a cigar tube rather than a slab. The godron finish runs the full height of that oval in fine parallel ribs, so the light travels around the body as it turns instead of flashing off a flat face.
The jacket is stamped 750 on its rim, the millesimal mark for 18 carat gold, and the base plate is engraved Cartier with the serial number and Swiss Made. Both are photographed here in close-up so you can read them yourself. 750 on the jacket refers to the gold shell; the mechanism inside it is a separate assembly, as it is on every lighter of this construction.
The lighter is in excellent condition. The ribbing is sharp the whole way round, the gold is bright with no wear through at the corners, and the base plate is clean. It is photographed lit: it lights and holds a flame.
It comes in the original red must de Cartier box with its cream interior. No papers or guarantee card with this one — the lighter and its box.
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