French luxury house Cartier impresses the world with its exquisite and luxurious design in jewllery and timepieces. Their watches are usually decorated with glittering jewels. But such image is undergoing a significant change. The newly released Cartier ID One Concept Watch shows Cartier is not only good at giving a watch with fancy outward design, but is also good at innovating the the making inside a watch to give practical features to the watch that required advanced watchmaking technique and expertise.
Totally different with the existing Cartier watch models, the grey Cartier ID One Concept Watch is unpretentious at all, but its impressive style far exceeds its family members. The breakthrough innovation inside this concept watch really makes it not necessary to use lots of diamonds and audacious design to tell people its own value.
The breakthrough innovation of Cartier ID One lies in that it stands for a brand new concept of future watches – watches that do not require any adjustment or regulation during production and even the whole life of the watch. As we know that due to gravity and the unstable nature of metal, mechnical watches have to be adjusted during the assembly process, such as the hairspring, the ballence and the pallet fork. Cartier has come up with inniovative solution to address this problems.
There are four main innovation to make the Cartier ID One free from adjustment. The first one is called “Zerodur hairspring”. Zerodur is a patented ceramic/glass material that is extremely stable under magnetic fields and a wide range of temperatures. Second, Cartier has has introduced a balance wheel, escape wheel and lever in Carbon Crystal, which is a diamond-like material that can enable the escapement to be oil free effectively. Thirdly, a shock resistant escapement cage that can shift laterally and vertically is created inside the ID Once to absorb force and protect the entire escapement from shock. Finally, the watch has a 46mm “Niobium-Titanium” case. Niobium-titanium is a hard-wearing alloy that can again absorb shock effectively.
Just like other concept product, the Cartier ID One concept watch is not for commercial sale. But we do expect Cartier to put it into production in the future. As our previous post shows, the Tag Heuer Monaco V4 concept watch takes about 5 year to be put into commercial production, so it will probably take us a few years to see the commercial version of Cartier ID One. Anyway, we already see a brand new Cartier as a competitive player in the haute horlogerie world. The Cartier ID Once is really a milestone Cartier watch.
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