This handsome luxury watch is one of the brand’s Calibre de Cartier collection for gents that was brought to the SIHH 2010 event at Geneva when Cartier unveils its first mechanical manufacture movement equipped timepieces line-up.
Just like every premium watches made by the Paris based renown jeweler and watchmaker, this timepiece is one that is built to lasts for years to come. Superbly built with quality materials and components, and finely sculpted with such precision craftsmanship. Furthermore, not only focusing on aesthetic, its design construction also account the ergonomic aspects as well for comfort.
Based on its size, this Cartier W7100014 is large size for gent’s average wrist. Its hefty round case that is made of stainless steel and finished in fine brushed and polished measures 42 mm in diameter --in which, the widest part of it in the mid-section is actually 45.05 mm wide, and approximately 9.74 mm thick. Meanwhile, its supple yet supportive Black bracelet that is made of genuine alligator leather and comes equipped with a steel made double adjustable deployant buckle is tapers from around 22 mm to 18 mm wide. Overall, this timepiece’s weighs around 91.5 grams, and as expected from such luxury watch, it does feel solid and sturdy.Its caseback is a see-thru, featuring sapphire display that letting you to have a glance to the fitted Calibre 1904-PS MC inside, and is secured with screwed steel plate which is engraved with all the watch’s general information around, including its serial number. At the other side, there is a domed scratch resistant sapphire crystal shielding its face that in addition to makes the construction even more durable, also offers an appreciable continual clarity. Furthermore, at the right hand side, there lays the high polished heptagonal steel crown that is typical to Cartier, sets with Blued faceted sapphire. And by having 30 m water resistant, you can be sure that this beauty wont be harmed by slight wetness, nor fog through time and use.
One of this Calibre de Cartier W7100014 timepiece’s most fascinating part is its face. Bold in Black, the dial is fashioned with contemporary style, detailed and has a well balanced layout arrangement. Of course, its read-ability is also quite good as well. On the dial, there are sword shaped Silvered oxidized-steel hour and minute hands with SuperLuminova, a raised oversized "XII" Roman hour marker with applied Silvered steel that is accompanied by three of smaller luminous Roman numerals on both of its sides (I, II, III, IX, X, XI) and applied sticks markers on the remaining hours, framed date aperture at 3 o’clock, and framed subsidiary small seconds counter with Silver tone hands and White markers. Furthermore, its inner bezel is decorated with a subtle Clous de Paris accent.
Speaking a bit about the movement, despite of being non-chronometer, the Cartier Calibre 1904-PS MC employed by this watch is a good automatic movement that is quite accurate and reliable. This watchmaker’s first manufacture caliber has some sort of similarity with the ETA 2892-A2, but, it is slimmer, and having a small seconds hack instead of central sweep seconds. It contains 27 jewels, beating at 28,800 alterations per hour, and provides around 48 hours of power reserve. Just like most of automatics, it does gain a bit of time, in which, our rated daily average is around 6.4 seconds fast which is good enough for mechanical timepiece. In addition, this satin finished Calibre 1904-PS also offers an enjoyable aesthetic as well, that can be seen via the caseback: perlage and côtes de Genève decoration.Anyway, for all of its quality offerings, this men’s Stainless steel on Black alligator leather bracelet Black dial Cartier Calibre W7100014 luxury wrist watch is offered at a reasonable original manufacturer suggested retail price of $6,500.00.
Watch Specification
| Brand: | Cartier |
| Collection: | Calibre de Cartier |
| Series: | Automatic |
| Model number: | W7100014 |
| Watch style: | Gent, Dress, Elegant, Formal |
| Display type: | Analog |
| Movement: | Swiss automatic Cartier Calibre 1904-PS MC. In-house (manufacture) movement, first released in 2010, designed in collaborative work with Jaeger-LeCoultre. Swiss made, automatic self-winding mechanical movement. |
| Functions: | Hour, Minute, Small seconds, Date |
| Dial: | Black dial decorated, stamped at the 12 o’clock. Sword-shaped, Silvered oxidized-steel hour and minute hands with SuperLuminova. Luminous, Roman numeral and stick hour markers. painted White markers around the outer rim with quarterly luminescent dots. Small seconds at 6, Automatic date at 3. |
| Window: | Sapphire Crystal domed. scratch resistant, with anti reflective coating. |
| Case: | Stainless Steel Round, Ø 42 mm (45.05 mm at its widest part), ± 9.74 mm thick. fine brushed. |
| Bezel: | Stainless Steel stationary bezel. fine brushed and polished. |
| Caseback: | See-through stainless steel with sapphire display, secured with 8 screws. engraved. |
| Crown: | Pull and push crown Stainless Steel. polished, heptagonal shaped, decorated with Blue faceted sapphire. |
| Bracelet: | Alligator / Crocodile leather Black, textured pattern, with tonal stitching. ± 22 mm - 18 mm wide. mens standard length. |
| Clasp: | Double adjustable deployant buckle Stainless steel. |
| Notable Features: | Calendar Luminous hands and markers Transparent exhibition caseback Calibre de Cartier signature design |
| Water resistant: | 30 m (3 ATM / 100 feet) daily wear, not suitable for prolonged contack with water. |
| Additional info: | The updated version of this watch model is Cartier Ref. W7100041. |
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42mm Calibre de Cartier Automatic review in this page is written by Rief at Saturday, August 24, 2013. The post is tagged as $5000 up to $10000, 30m, 42mm, analog, automatic, cartier, date, dress, men, mid end, on leather, round, small second, stainless steel, swiss automatic, two hands, watch.
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