====== Robert Cart ======

{{wst>author|[[Foskett, Stephen|Stephen Foskett]] ([[https://grail-watch.com/|Grail Watch]])}}

**Robert Cart** was a maker of thin [[complicated]] watches in [[Le Locle]] from the 1920s through [[1970]], when it was purchased by [[Dixi]] and merged with [[Paul Buhré]].

Robert Cart S.A. was located in [[Le Locle]], Switzerland by [[1922]]. The young brand already boasted of producing "qualité supérieure" complicated watches, including [[repeater]]s, [[chronograph]]s, [[perpetual calendar]]s, and [[ultra-thin]] watches. This put it in competition with [[Paul Buhré]], [[H. Barbezat-Bole]], and [[H. Moser & Cie.]] who were also located in the city. In the 1970s, all of these companies would come together under [[Dixi]].

In the 1920s, Robert Cart was located next door to rival [[Paul Buhré]] on Rue Beau-Site, also the home of the massive [[Tissot]] factory. In the 1930s, the company moved to a nearby building at Rue des Tourelles 5.

Robert Cart patented a [[jump hour]] and [[rising minute]]s display by [[1930]] and used this in both pocket and wrist watches. The company lasted through World War II and boasted a prize at the Neuchâtel Concours in [[1948]].

In the 1960s, Robert Cart specialized in ultra-thin watches, building an inventory of movements produced by [[Frédéric Piguet]] of [[Le Sentier]]. But the consolidation of that era saw them acquired by [[Dixi]] and merged with [[Paul Buhré]]. The ultra-thin movements would be used by [[H. Moser & Cie.]] after they are also acquired by Dixi in [[1974]].

On October 29, [[1988]], Robert Cart (along with [[H. Moser & Cie.]], [[Jean Perret]], [[Luxor]], [[Paul Buhré]], [[Terrasse]], and [[Zodiac]]) was officially dissolved and integrated into Zenith. These brands were officially abandoned in [[1989]]. [[Zodiac]] would be re-launched in [[1990]], [[H. Moser & Cie.|Moser]] in [[2002]], and the rest would be mostly forgotten.


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