With the Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astromysterieux, Cartier gets a dual prize for not only one of the most beautiful watch releases of SIHH 2016, but also probably the most French sounding. Try and say Astromysterieux without picturing a stroll in Paris along the Seine after an afternoon window shopping in the Place Vendome. Youd walk along imagining to yourself all the attra [...]
Written by Will Kaufman for Released last year at SIHH 2015, the?Cartier?Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication made a powerful debut, claiming the title of the most complicated Cartier watch ever produced. After numerous impressive and unique ventures dedicated to pushing the boundaries of watchmaking-just think of the Cartier ID2 watch with a vacuum [...]
Cartier is one of those very few luxury Swiss watch brands that, for an extended period of time, has maintained both an extremely strong array of main collection offerings?and?a genuinely sophisticated, unique, and diverse line of haute horlogerie ultra high-end pieces. That arguably puts a lot of pressure on the company and Cartiers head of movement creation depar [...]
A major theme for Cartier watches at the SIHH 2015 watch and jewelry trade show was skeletonization. Actually, over the last few years, Cartier has been showing off more and more skeletonized versions of their in-house-made timepieces that exist among the upper echelon of their horological products. For 2015, we get yet another interesti [...]
The Cartier Cle (Cle de Cartier) Mysterious Hour watch is probably my favorite new Cartier mens watch model debuted here at Watches Wonders 2015 in Hong Kong. It is actually a combination of three existing Cartier elements. First, is the also new-for-2015 Cle de Cartier watch (hands-on here) collection case. Next, is the [...]
Cartier has a few lovely chronographs in their current watch collection (very few, actually), but the company isnt exactly known for being a producer of too many chronograph timepieces. Think of the classic Tank or Santos, or other case shapes that help define the classic French-based (Swiss Made) l [...]
For 2015, Cartier has released the brand new Cle de Cartier collection of watches for both men and women. We included the Cle de Cartier as one of our top 10 new watches for SIHH 2015, and for good reason it sports not only a completely new case design, but also a new movement. While the 2015 Cle watches [...]
Cartiers newest sports watch for 2015 is the Ronde Croisiere collection, and in many ways, it is an unexpected but not surprising move from the brand. Cartier is the most important brand within the larger Richemont Group of luxury companies, easily out-earning its colleague watch making family members such as Piaget, Panerai, Vacheron Constantin, IWC, and more. That means Cartie [...]
Want a watch that is almost guaranteed to become a fascinating collectors piece somewhere down the road? Then you might want to take a close look at what is destined to be a unique and rare treat from Cartier. I am, of course, talking about the 2015 Cartier Crash Skeleton, which adds a new mens version of the famo [...]
When you talk luxury and watches, things dont get much more emblematic than Cartier and the Cartier Tank. While companies like Rolex and Patek Philippe are known for making watches for watch lovers, Cartier is known for making wearable items for the nobility of old, and for those who want to feel a bit regal today. Cartier is a wonderfully m [...]
At SIHH 2014, Cartier presented a number of?new pieces that were highly?impressive from a technical point of view-and one?of my personal favorites that follows that heritage in its own interesting way is the Cartier Rotonde?de Cartier Tourbillon Chronograph.?With SIHH 2015?coming up [...]
What a wonderful time of year, when many brands start to slowly show what they have been working on for SIHH 2015. Cartier is kicking off the new watch season with their announcement of the Rotonde De Cartier Annual Calendar, a nicely balanced and innovative (yet decidedly Cart [...]
On October 10th 2014, CNN will debut a new television program called Ones to Watch that will be fully sponsored by French watch and jewelry maker Cartier. Like most major media, Turner-owned CNN has been experimenting with new ways of deriving revenue with advertiser sponsored content. In fact, sponsoring an entire show and surrounding media is not a [...]
The Cartier Calibre Diver watch combines a high-luxury sense of design and prestige with the presumed durability of a sports watch. It is either? Is it both? Those are good questions, and ones that are okay to ask, given that Cartier has been among the few major luxury watch brands who have been very consistent in making sure that their dre [...]
The world of Cartier has a range of timepiece levels. This includes the brands Classics, which represent their more mainstream watches with relatively simple movements, the Fine Watchmaking arena of much higher-end complications and haute horology, and finally, the middle area of Small Complications. This is [...]
Cartier Santos-Dumont watch from 1912Most watch lovers know that Cartier was an early pioneer of the wristwatch, especially for men. It was not until the 20th century that wristwatches enjoyed any real mass production and the transition from pocket to wristwatch did not occur overnight. When Cartier [...]
Cartier unveiled a few highly complicated novelties at the 2014 SIHH. Of them we have already discussed the Rotonde de Cartier Earth and Moon Tourbillon?and now Ariel has gone hands-on with another tourbillon known as the Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendaire. The two pieces share several key featu [...]
One of the last things I was expecting from Cartier for 2014 was a dive watch, and now that we have one I can barely imagine not wanting it. That is how the peculiar desire engine of the watch industry works. As mixed up and backwards as the industry may be, it still has the power to create items that I suddenly desire which I would have neve [...]
It would be wrong to deny Cartier the honor of being highly innovative over the last several years in regard to its most exclusive timepiece creations. To be actually innovative and come up with something new in a mechanical watch takes serious effort and luck. It has been uttered to me on more than one occasion that what can be don [...]
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