If Rolex is the king in the world of watches, then Cartier must be the queen. Although Cartier already demonstrate its strong R&D capacity in developing cutting-edge watches such as the ID One Concept Watch, their traditional advantage is in making luxurious ladies’ watches. As we will see at the SIHH 2010, the Captive de Cartier watch is one such latest model showing Cartier’s incomparable sense in designing female watches.

Captive de Cartier features a very unconventional design with sharp contrast in size between the hour indexes and watch hands. The central dial is 35 mm in diameter, but the hour and minute hands were shrunk to a very small size that they look like a subsidiary dial. On the other hand, the most space of the dial is occupied by the radiant gem-set hour markers, which is mounted on a clean and sleek 18 carat rhodium plate in light gray.

The bezel, of course, is set with round diamonds in concert with the glittering hours. Besides, the watch is matched with a light gray brushed canvas, which looks very similar to a metal starp. The watch is water resistant to 30 meters, although probably no one will wear such a watch to go diving.

Overall, the Captive de Cartier light gray color theme with the unstinted use of glittering diamonds makes the watch like a ice rose in full bloom. It is indeed an ice queen at the SIHH 2010. If you want to melt a girl’s heart, Captive de Cartier may be the right option for you. The retail price of such watch is estimated for thousands of dollars. Should you find this too expensive, why not check our replica Cartier watches? You’ll find the right watches at Watcheslux.com.

A belle looks more attractive when she is in revealing clothes. It seems Cartier’s designing team draw great inspiration from this simple aesthetic philosophy – this is my what I felt when I saw their newly released model: the stunning Rotonde de Cartier Flying Tourbillon Skeleton.

Cartier is really determined to enter the ranks of Haute Horlogerie. The Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Flying Tourbillon Skeleton is another masterpiece representing Cartier’s brand new image of high watchmaing after the Cartier ID One Concept Watch.

Totally different from Cartier’s previous iconic collections as Tank or Santos, the Rotonde de Cartier Flying Tourbillon employs the aesthetic skeleton dial design. Say, if Tank or Santo is a dowager wrapped in old-fashioned clothes, then the Rotonde de Cartier Skeleton must be an attractive young beauty in bikini.

(See the art of revealing: compare Rotonde de Cartier Flying Tourbillon Skeleton with its predecessor The Ballon Bleu Flying Tourbillon de Cartier in white gold)

Just like that a leggy and curvy belle should not wear too much clothes to cover her beauty, the Rotonde de Cartier Skeleton choose see-through skelton design to flaunt its amazing Flying Tourbillon.

The watch is cased in 45mm diameter stainless steel, with a 9455 MC manual winding movement. Located at six o’clock, the caliber was originally used in Roger Dubuis watches (Roger Dubuis and Cartier are both Richemont brands), but was thoroughly re-designed and improved to suit Cartier’s effort in developing high horology watches.

The C-shaped tourbillon carriage

By the way, just like belles are scarce resource in the human society, such beautiful watch comes in limited numbers. The Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Flying Tourbillon Skeleton is only available in 100 pieces. For most of us, we can only watch and imagine how cool it is to wear such a stylish watch.

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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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