SIHH update – Cartier

One of the most remarkeble news this year is the end of Cartier Paris Collection Privee. This year the special editions released under this name and known for the word “Paris” on the dial, will seize to be produced. If you want more information than i can recommend the website Troisanneaux.com, complete dedicated to Cartier’s mens mechanical wristwatches.

Cartier comes with a very strong line-up this year. Based on the Tank Americain and the Santos 100, Cartier brings stunning and complicated new releases. Here are my favorites

The new Santos 100 now features an beautiful skeletonised movement. The manual wind caliber 9611 MC was manufactured entirely by Cartier. Equipped with two barrels, the 9611 MC calibre has 72 hours of powe reserve, thus guaranteeing the long-term consistency of the mainspring and exceptional precision.

The movement has been shaped to take the function of the dial as well. In the way it’s skeletonised it shows the same roman numbers, like shown on the new Santos 100 Tourbillon. The Santos 100 Skeleton is housed in an oversized palladium case.

Next is the Cartier Rotonde Central Chronograph. The movement features a chronograph, but not just a chronograph. The elapsed time is displayed in the center of the dial. Caliber 9907 MC is produced, developed and prototyped exclusively in-house in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Timekeeping occurs on two levels: the lower level displays the hours and minutes using blued hands of which only the tips are visible. The upper level is dedicated to the chronograph function. In the centre, the slim blued seconds hand is the chronograph seconds hand, while the large counter in the form of an arc shows the elapsed time up to 30 minutes.

Last but not least, Cartier made another tourbillon that i absolutely love, the Tank Américaine Tourbillon Volant. Usually i’m not crazy about holes in a dial to show a part of the movement, even when it’s a complication like a tourbillon. But Cartier designed a dial with a lot of depth so the hole releaving the tourbillon somehow seems logical. The movement was already used in the Ballon Blue tourbillon that was released last year. Caliber 9452 MC has the Geneva Seal movement and is also used in the Santos 100 Tourbillon. This one-minute flying tourbillon reveals a C-shaped tourbillion carriage at six o’clock.

Photos and data from Perpetuelle.com

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