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Top 3 French Watch Brands

Nicolas Scatena — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 03:27:08 +0000

In honor of France’s win in the World Cup earlier today, here is a list of the top three watch brands that have been founded in France.

1.Breguet

Breguet was founded in France and run by Swiss-born man that runs his manufacture under Swatch Company in Switzerland. Breguet was founded in 1775 by Abraham Louis Breguet, one of the greatest watchmakers ever. Breguet is known for the number of amazing innovations including the first worn watch and the Tourbillon. Buy Adipex online https://adipex-phentermine.net/

2. Cartier

Cartier is known for the fine luxury accessories such as watches, fragrances and eyewear. Most importantly of course the gorgeous watches made by Cartier.Cartier has had many successful collection over the past historical years. Nowadays they have the Calibre and the Ballon Bleu as their main ranges. Modafinil for sale http://www.buymodafinilonlinefast.com/guide-to-buy-modafinil-online/

3. Chanel

When it comes to fine luxury Chanel is also up in that list with Cartier. To own any type of luxury watch profoundly known for fine jewelry then Chanel is the brand for you. Every Chanel watch is very good quality and with very high end details. To add morello the overall image, the black or white ceramic really brings the watch to life.

Cartier Vice President had an Accident!

Nicolas Scatena — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:53:56 +0000

It’s mid week and I thought I should write about a ladies watch for a change.

I don’t believe I’ve ever reviewed a ladies watch on this blog up to date.

I’ve choosen to write about the Cartier Crash

Why? Well because I found it strange that I haven’t written about a ladies watch yet so I decided to write about a watch I found strange.

With a price tag of about $70,000 that could have been spent on the car that instead hit the watch.

This watch comes in a 18K pink gold or white gold case set with brilliant-cut diamonds, beaded crown set with a brilliant-cut diamond, silvered opaline dial , blued-steel sword-shaped hands, 18K pink gold bracelet or white gold and if that isn’t enough there’s one with diamonds, wrist size: 170 mm, mechanical Manufacture movement with manual winding, caliber 8970 MC, Case dimensions: 38.5 mm x 23.1 mm. Thickness: 8.8mm.

Cartier themselves don’t have much to say about the latest crash timepiece, I mean who could this watch is.. well strange. But anyhow this is what they said.

Cartier:”Created in 1967 in the heart of Swinging London, the Crash watch captures the incredible energy of the city at that time. With its asymmetrical dial, it revolutionized the esthetic codes of watchmaking history. Consistently released in a very limited series, this legendary piece carries the prestige of its rare nature.”

Ok so ladies and gentlemen the history for this timepiece is even weirder. The story goes that a Vice president from the Cartier offices in London, was involved in a fatal car crash. A fire ensued and the occupant along with his watch was caught up in the flames, furthering along the fatality and “melting” the watch on his wrist, a Cartier Bagnoire Alongee, which is shaped like an elongated oval. The watch being melted and mangled took on the shape of a surrealistic watch from a Dali painting. The powers that be at Cartier, found this “watch design” actually inspiring, and decided to introduce is as a new design, and as a tribute to their fallen colleague. Thus the “Crash” watch was born.( in Great Britain the slang for a car accident is “crash”)

A few decades after its creation the Cartier Crash became a limited edition timepiece the latest crash model only has 267 limited watches. Odd number of course.

Cartier is known for making beautiful artistic timepieces and indeed this is an artistic timepiece but I still find it strange.

So Cartier took their destroyed Bagnoire Alongee and simply launched it as something new and called it artistic. But it has seem to have caught on and sold well since it’s launch in 1967 once it was turned into a limited edition in 1991 it truly caught on with Cartier collectors.

Retonde de Cartier

Nicolas Scatena — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:58:09 +0000

When I saw the following image I was left breathless.

Cartier have created a jaw dropping timepiece that makes jaws drop to the floor. They names it Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendaire. Designed like a stadium in rows and with the center stage being the (Ask Watchmaker). This piece is truly admirable. The “Cartier Stadium” is set up as follows:
Upper Level: Date display
Mid Level: Month Display
Ground Level: Day Display

Now I’ve seen a good amount of perpetual calendars but none like this. Cartier has redesigned the perpetual calendar into something new. Something that you look at and become lost in because you scan the watch in and out, out and in. But even with this marvelous designed they’ve made it easy to read. The display windows is what I like to call a “Cartier Blue” that is easy to spot.

But it goes much further than that, Cartier have redesigned the manual adjustments of this timepiece.
Changing the Date/Day/Month on a perpetual calendar can be hard as well as risky since you can over-wound the watch. But Cartier has changed that, just like how you would change your hour/minute on your normal watch using the crown you can do so with the Date/Day/Month features on this timepiece.
Cartier has essentially taken the perpetual calendar to the next level.

On the back of this timepiece you can see a leap year indicator.
With a a sapphire crystal back case you can see the amazing movement working.

Cartier states the following “The Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendar watch revolutionizes the perpetual calendar in terms of function and appearance. Its innovative design has produced a three-dimensional concentric display of the day, date and month. A flying tourbillon, rotating once every minute, occupies center-stage. Fine watchmaking connoisseurs will be sure to appreciate the ease of correcting the settings with the crown and admire the fine finishing of this “Poinçon de Genève” certified watch which is fitted with a 9459 MC mechanical self-winding movement.”

The case is Platinum and measures 45 mm 15.1 mm thick and the watch is Automatic of course. The crown is Platinum and has a Sapphire Cabochon to decorate it.A silver galvanized guilloche dial with a silvered grid and black Roman numeral and of course the sword shape in a “Cartier Blue”. It comes standard with a black alligator strap double folding buckle that is made of 18k white gold. The “stadium” (Perpetual Calendar) with of course the tourbillon complicatio. The watch is also certified “Poincon de Geneve”. The movement consist of 382 parts inclduing 51 jewels, the movement itself it 32 mm and 8.1 mm thick. There is 21,600 vibrations occuring every hour and has a power reserve of about 50 hours, water resistant up to 30 m.

This is truly a magnificent timepiece and my respect goes out to Cartier for being innovative, yet maintaining the essence of watchmaking.

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