By Roberta Naas
As a teaser to what is coming next week at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) 2017, Cartier unveils one of its more complicated watches of the new year: the Rotonde de Cartier Minute Repeater Mysterious Double Tourbillon. A mouthful to say, the watch has even more in store to feast the eyes upon when you get close up with it.
Boucheron, Cartier, Chanel, Graff, and Harry Winston bring us holiday cheer with these fabulous creations.
‘Cartier Magician: High Jewelry and Precious Objects’ is a book is dedicated to a new collection of high jewelry and precious objects called Cartier Magicien. It is a stunningly illustrated book and the photos and text are equally as good and enchanting. This is well worth a look!
BY Roberta Naas
The sky has enthralled man since the dawn of time. From the starts to the moon and sun, it is a never-ending source of mystery and inspiration. Some watch brands have found a way, though, to bring the sky to the wrist, unveiling watches with rare meteorite dials on them. Here we bring you seven fine examples of celestial beauty.
Cartier’s Fine Watchmaking line of haute horlogerie continues to expand apace with three new additions that will be presented at SIHH 2017 in just over a month. The flagship complication, or actually triple complication, is the Rotonde de Cartier Minute Repeater Mysterious Double Tourbillon. Powered by the 448-part calibre 9407 MC, this features a minute repeating function […]
Ronde Louis Cartier Cartier has been best known for its square and rectangle watches, ask anyone on the street to name a Cartier watch, and you will get an answer like; ‘that watch with the screws.’. That is what Cartier is among the general public; the Santos and the Tank watches. They represent the common […]
There is something mesmerizing by skeleton watches. With nothing to hide, the watchmaker has to be at its best. Not only will every flaw in the finish of
The article Visual Complications from the past: Cartier Pasha Day & Night explained in a nutshell how Cartier build their famous Day & Night and Mystery clocks in the thirties. Quite remarkable, since at the time the brand was a small company with just a few watchmakers on the payroll. This makes it even more […]
One of the coolest jewelry designers of 1960s New York was Aldo Cipullo.
Cipullo was an artist often surrounded by New York’s Studio 54 “in” crowd. The designer, who had his own clientele and his own collection, always dared to draw inspiration from everyday items such as a horseshoe or tank tracks, transforming them into jeweled marvels. He was an important figure in the contemporary history of Cartier. Read on to find out why.
By Roberta Naas
There are a host of wonderful trends in luxury watchmaking today, with some focusing on the technical side and others focusing on the aesthetic side. Additionally, there are some that bring these two realms together in artful majesty — offering artistic, technically advanced masterpieces on the wrist. Often those masterpieces emulate nature — flora,