Cartier W7100039

With its refined contemporary design and Cartier Calibre 1904-PS MC inside, this Cartier W7100039 would be an ideal wrist accessory for any men whose look for a versatile timepiece that is not only stylish, but also offers a pure mechanical sophistication. And better yet, this competitively priced premium automatic watch that is presented in luxurious steel-gold on leather construction is watertight to 30 meters for practical sake.


This sophisticated wrist watch is a part of the brand’s Calibre de Cartier collection for men that was made its debut during the SIHH in Geneva in 2010 as brand’s first in-house movement equipped timepieces line-up.

As expected from the France founded renown jeweler and watchmaker, behind its visually attractive design, this mechanical timepiece is constructed with the finest materials and quality components, and is executed with an excellent precision craftsmanship to ensures that its inside out flawless beauty wont fade even for years to come. Furthermore, not only focusing on aesthetic, its design also account the ergonomic aspects as well for comfort.

Based on its size, this Cartier W7100039 is considerably a large size. Its polished hefty round case that is made of premium grade stainless steel has a masculine diameter of 42 mm --in which, the cylindrical mid-section of the case (beneath the bezel) is actually widens to 45.05 mm between the lugs, and approximately 9.64 mm thick. Meanwhile, its luxurious Brown bracelet that is made of genuine alligator leather and comes equipped with a steel made double adjustable deployant buckle tapers from 22 mm to 18 mm wide. Overall, the watch’s weighs around 101 grams, and it does feel solid and sturdy as expected from such luxury watch.

The caseback of this watch is transparent, with a sapphire window that is encased with eight screws secured steel plate which is engraved with all the watch’s general information around, including its serial number. At the case’s right hand side, there lays the high polished heptagonal steel crown that is typical to Cartier, sets with Blue faceted sapphire. Its bezel, that is fine brushed, is made of a solid 18K Rose Gold. Furthermore, encased within the bezel, there is a domed scratch resistant sapphire crystal that in addition to makes the construction even more durable, also offers an appreciable continual clarity. And as it was mentioned once before, its whole construction is 30 m water resistant so that you can be sure that it wont be hard by slight wetness, nor fog through time and use.

Upon observing its face, you’ll notice that Cartier does put a lot of effort in designing this gent’s Calibre de Cartier W7100039 timepiece’s silvered and snailed opaline dial. It is fabulous, refined with a contemporary style and detailed, has a well balanced layout arrangement, and most importantly, offers a good legibility as well. On the dial, there are sword shaped Black oxidized steel hour and minute hands with SuperLuminova, an oversized Black transferred "XII" Roman hour marker with three of smaller Roman numerals on both of its sides (I, II, III, IX, X, XI) and Silver outlined Black sticks markers on the remaining hours, an external railtrack scale with 4 quarterly luminous dots, and complimented with date aperture at 3 o’clock and a Silver subsidiary small seconds counter with Black hand and Black markers at 6 o’clock that both feature Silvered outer frames. Furthermore, its inner bezel is decorated with Clous de Paris accent for an added aesthetic.

Speaking a bit about the movement, the Cartier Calibre 1904-PS MC that powers this wrist flattering watch is the watchmaker’s first manufacture caliber. It has some similarity with the ETA 2892-A2, but, 1904-PS MC is slimmer, and having a small seconds hack instead of central sweep seconds. This in-house self-winding 27 jewels movement 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, but still, it considerably accurate and has a generally well-balanced rate for a non-chronometer grade --in which, our rated daily average is around 6.4 seconds fast. And in addition, the Calibre 1904-PS MC fitted in this watch has a nice "make-up" as well; decorated with perlage, côtes de Genève, and is satin finished.

Anyway, for all of its quality offerings, this men’s 18K Rose Gold and Stainless steel on Brown alligator leather bracelet Opaline dial Cartier Calibre W7100039 luxury wrist watch is offered at a reasonable original manufacturer suggested retail price of $10,300.00.

Watch Specification

Brand:	Cartier
Collection:	Calibre de Cartier
Series:	Automatic
Model number:	W7100039
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. Specs Functions: Two hands, Small seconds, Date. Size: 11½‴ lignes (Ø 25.6mm), height 4.00 mm. 27 jewels. beats at 28,800 vph. provides ± 48 hours of power reserve. Features: Bi-directional winding, two mainspring barrel, Glucydur balance, flat Nivarox hairspring, Incabloc shock absorber, Etachron fine regulation. Cartier engraved rotor. Decorated with perlage, côtes de Genève, and satin finishes. Performance --rated under certain conditions, actual performance may vary. Dial up/down: +6.8 / +8.8 Crown up/down/left: +7.0 / +8.2 / +7.8 Greatest deviation: 2.0 Daily average: +6.4
Functions:	Hour, Minute, Small seconds, Date
Dial:	Silver Opaline Silvered and snailed opaline dial. Sword-shaped, Black oxidized-steel hour and minute hands with SuperLuminova. Black transferred Roman numeral and stick hour markers. painted Black markers around the outer rim with quarterly luminescent dots. Subsidiary seconds counter at 6, Calendar aperture 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), ± 9.64 mm thick. fine brushed.
Bezel:	18K Rose Gold 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 Brown, textured pattern, with tonal stitching. ± 20 mm wide. men’s 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 contact with water.
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