This refined luxury watch is a part of the watchmaker’s Calibre de Cartier collection for men that was first introduced during the SIHH in Geneva in 2010 as brand’s first fully developed in-house movement equipped timepieces.
As expected from the Paris head-quartered renown jeweler and watchmaker, this beauty is backed with both aesthetic and technical qualities. It has a superb built construction, constructed with the finest materials for longevity, and is executed with a remarkable precision craftsmanship for a flawless details. And for the peace of mind, this hefty wrist flattering accessory is designed to be a water resistant timepiece --which is to be exact, is watertight to 30 meters.
Based on its size, this Cartier W7100050 is considerably a large size. Its well crafted fine-brushed stainless steel made round case 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 9.74 mm thick. Meanwhile, its two-tone fine-brushed and polished stainless steel link bracelet that features an 18K Rose Gold central links and comes equipped with a hidden deployment folding clasp with push button safety is around 20 mm wide. The watch itself does feel solid and sturdy, and thanks to its ergonomic design, it is quite comfortable to wear as well.
The back of the case features a sapphire display that is encased with eight screws secured steel which is engraved with all the general information of the watch around, including the serial number. At the other side, the face of this timepiece is covered with a domed scratch resistant sapphire crystal that is enhanced with an anti-reflective coating, which is encased by the luxurious, solid 18K Rose Gold made sleek fixed bezel. And at the case’s right hand side, there lays the polished steel heptagonal crown that is typical to Cartier, sets with Blue synthetic sapphire.Upon observing its face, you’ll notice that Cartier does put a lot of effort in designing this Calibre de Cartier W7100050 wrist watch’s Chocolate Brown dial. It is gorgeous, refined with a contemporary look and detailed, well balanced, and most importantly, offers a good read-ability, too. On the dial, there are sword shaped Rose Gold plated hour and minute hands with SuperLuminova, an oversized SuperLuminova outlined "XII" Roman hour marker with three of luminescent Roman numerals on both of its sides (I, II, III, IX, X, XI), luminous sticks hour markers, an external railtrack scale with 4 quarterly luminous dots, and complimented with date aperture at 3 o’clock and a subsidiary small seconds counter at 6 o’clock that both feature Rose Gold plated frame. The dial itself has a gulloche decorated inner ring, meanwhile, its inner bezel is decorated with Clous de Paris.
Speaking a bit about the movement, the Cartier Calibre 1904-PS MC that can be seen through the timepiece’s exhibition caseback and is practically the watchmaker’s first manufacture caliber, is considerable a good mechanical movement. Just like most of automatics, it does gain a bit of time, but still, at a generally well-balanced rate for a non-chronometer movement. Specifically, our rated daily average is around 6.4 seconds. This in-house self-winding 27 jewels movement beating at 28,800 alterations per hour, and provides around 48 hours of power reserve. And not only offering a good performance, 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 Stainless steel on two-tone link bracelet 18K Rose Gold bezel Chocolate Brown dial Cartier luxury wrist watch is offered at a reasonable original manufacturer suggested retail price of $12,000.00.
Watch Specification
| Brand: | Cartier |
| Collection: | Calibre de Cartier |
| Series: | Automatic |
| Model number: | W7100050 |
| 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: | Chocolate Brown Guilloche decorated. Sword-shaped, Rose Gold plated hour and minute hands with SuperLuminova. Luminous, Roman numeral and stick hour markers. painted Rose Gold 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: | 18K Rose Gold stationary bezel. high 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 sapphire. |
| Bracelet: | Stainless steel and 18K Rose Gold Two tone, fine brushed and polished steel link bracelet with rose gold central links. ± 20 mm wide. men’s standard length. |
| Clasp: | Hidden folding clasp with push button safety as an extra security measures. |
| 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. |
| Additional info: | - |
The Cartier
42mm Calibre de Cartier Automatic review in this page is written by Rief at Monday, August 26, 2013. The post is tagged as $10000 up to $25000, 30m, 42mm, analog, automatic, cartier, date, dress, gold, men, mid end, on steel, rose gold, round, small second, stainless steel, swiss automatic, two hands, watch.
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