Enter a world of captivating timepieces where Cartier, the master of forms, redefines watchmaking as we know it. The Cartier 2024 collection is a captivating exploration of form and function, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.

Throughout this narrative, you’ll find iconic designs reimagined, the concept of time playfully challenged, and a captivating collection of animal jeweled watches.

The House has always distinguished itself by creating unique shapes, starting with the design and crafting of silhouettes that adapt to instantly recognizable shapes. Like an alchemist, Cartier transforms matter into personal and precious objects of desire.

These, in turn, carry intangible feelings, store irreplaceable memories and elevate our souls. A real mystery surrounds some clockwork mechanisms. While they seem too impossible to be real, they are nonetheless. Therefore, the true magic lies in the very existence of these horological creations, these watches. Cartier watches feature an essential design that inevitably emerges, making them a must-have creation, while revealing the wonders of the world as he creates them.

Cartier is a true magician.

“Cartier, the subtle magician, who makes slivers of moon hang on a thread of sun…”

Playing with shapes, crossing the border between the real and the imaginary or going through a mirror, Cartier approaches time from the perspective of a magician.

Mirage? Metamorphosis?

Cartier perceives the magic of time, measures its beauty and reveals its mystery through its horological repertoire. Furthermore, it is an infinite creative field that allows all types of exploration, from the most formal to the most abstract, from the most technical to the most precious, and from the most daring to the most fantastic. Furthermore, an invisible magic intertwines all these creations, connecting style and spirit.

Furthermore, magic is the common thread of this edition of the Cartier 2024 Watches and Wonders offer. The House continually infuses its great classics with transformative power and constantly reinvents them. For example, the Tortue Monopoussoir Chronograph watch from the Cartier Privé collection is testimony to this. It provokes unexpected encounters between figuration and abstraction through a collection of jewelry watches that transform Cartier’s fauna and disturb perceptions.

It also invites us to play with the mystery of time. Sometimes it is an optical phenomenon, such as
Reflection de Cartier watch, which transforms the real into the imaginary. Sometimes it is an unexpected
measurement, such as the Santos-Dumont Rewind watch, which turns back time thanks to a movement that rotates the hands counterclockwise, or the Santos de Cartier Dual Time watch, which allows the time to be read simultaneously in two different places.

Cartier Privé Collection

Cartier Privé is the eighth annual event for watch enthusiasts, with a contemporary version of one of the most prestigious watches in Cartier’s repertoire: the Tortue. In previous years, the brand presented rare watches such as the Crash, the Tank Cintrée and the Tonneau, all of them redesigned with a single ambition: to dedicate technique to aesthetics. Finally, this year, Cartier has chosen to introduce the monopoussoir chronograph complication.

The Tortue watch was born in 1912 from a powerful creative vision: to create a dialogue between curves and tense lines. The new Tortue hours/minutes are faithful to the original design but have been subtly reworked. Additionally, with the horns extended along the strap and a slimmer profile, the watch has blossomed and become lighter. While it also pays homage to the first model, it features apple-shaped hands and a rail that follows the watch’s iconic shape around the hour markers, making the dial even easier to read. Finally, it should be noted that the new hour/minute versions are limited and numbered to 200 pieces, and the version set in platinum to 50 pieces.

The rebirth of a legend

Cartier first introduced the monopoussoir chronograph in a Tortue watch in 1928. The Cartier Paris Privée Collection notably reinterpreted it in 1998 with sophisticated details such as blued steel apple-shaped hands, triangular motifs at the four corners of the dial, and a bezel. hollow. the central seconds hand. On the dial, they placed the train track on the outside of the Roman numerals. The two counters occupy the entire space of the dial, and the three functions (start, stop and reset) are concentrated in a single pusher integrated into the crown, which is activated with a single movement. The movement is 4.3 mm thick, making it the House’s thinnest chronograph.

A watchmaker’s challenge, whose complexity is perceived when looking at the open back that reveals the fascinating spectacle of the gear train. The column wheel, in particular, is an essential component that regulates the functions of the various levers and presents a real challenge in terms of production and adjustment. The combination of experience and craftsmanship is the hallmark of this Manufacture.
MC movement from 1928, with its exceptional finish and the curves of its Cte de Genève decoration highlighting the shape of the bridges.

The levers, springs and bridges are chamfered, the metal is brushed and the wheels and cylinders are edged. With its play of nuances (the blue effect of the counters, the silvered opaline dial and the rhodium-plated Roman numerals), this watch embodies the chromatic harmony of platinum and cabochon ruby ​​so appreciated by Cartier. Limited edition of 200 numbered pieces.

Animal Jewelry Watches

Charismatic and indomitable, the emblematic animals of Cartier’s menagerie have been present in its watchmaking since 1914, the year in which the panther’s coat first appeared on a watch case.
This year, a fascinating chimera, born from the encounter between the zebra and the crocodile, inspires this entirely paved creation. It is both graphic and organic, with each stripe lacquered by hand. The silhouette of this imaginary creature surrounds a diamond-shaped sphere as if to embrace it. The delicacy of the engraving around each colored stone reflects the experience of the House.

“These new creations add to Cartier’s range of animal watches. Figurative or abstract, realistic or fanciful, they convey the beauty of nature. For decades, this theme has been reinvented with each new creation, exploring its rich aesthetics, its evocative power and its symbolic force.”

Pierre Rainero, director of Image, Style and Heritage at Cartier.

Cartier Reflection Collection

Go to the other side of the mirror, where time plays with appearances. after the crash [Un]Limited and Coussin, the Reflection de Cartier watch continues the odyssey of magic, illusion and fascination. The collection’s motto: transcribing the mysteries of time through bold creations. The result of Cartier’s work on shapes, this watch combines the savoir-faire of Cartier’s watchmakers and jewelers. It all starts with the unprecedentedly generous architecture of the open bracelet, which combines polished openwork and reflective gold with elongated lines and defined edges. The tension culminates when a delicate sphere meets its reflection, where time seems to go backwards.

The gem-like beveled crystal on the dial marks the dual identity of the piece, equal in sophistication and precision. This structure has given rise to a white gold watch that explores the effects of materials.
through combinations of pavements. The snow configuration and inverted configuration combine to provide a bright, tactile appeal.

Santos De Cartier and Santos-Dumont Collections

Furthermore, the daring legacy of aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont continues to loom large in Santos’ new collections. The collection exudes the spirit, style and magic of a free-spirited pioneer. Faithful to the originality and ingenuity of the aviator, Cartier 2024 continues the adventure with two renewed versions of this icon. These watches question our perception of time and defy gravity, representing the definitive conquest of the heavens.

Firstly, the elegant Santos-Dumont Rewind watch, which changes the way we traditionally tell time and secondly, the bold Santos de Cartier Dual watch, which allows you to track two different time zones at once.
Bold and transformative, this new Santos de Cartier Dual Time watch goes the distance, just as the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont did in his day.

Its self-winding mechanical movement combines two time zones, allowing you to indicate the time of both where you are and where you are from simultaneously, without giving up its usual resistance and reliability. With conical and ergonomic lines that form a synergy between the lines of the case and those of the bracelet, the watch in this steel version radiates elegance through its details. These include rhodium finish.
sword-shaped hands coated with a luminescent material, a seven-sided faceted crown and a gray counter displaying an adjustable second time zone.

The Santos-Dumont setback

Like the entire Santos de Cartier collection, the bracelet offers maximum practicality. Available in steel or leather, all versions can be interchanged thanks to the patented QuickSwitch system, whose invisible mechanism is integrated into the architecture of the case. Meanwhile, the metal bracelet can be adjusted to the nearest link thanks to its patented SmartLink size adjustment system without tools. Changing the course of time is the technical and aesthetic objective of the new Santos-Dumont Rewind watch.

Additionally, the carnelian dial is full of boldness and its subtle nuances emphasize how unique this platinum limited edition is. Roman numerals indicate the time in an arrangement that reverses tradition. Furthermore, this original and inventive limited edition follows in the magical and unprecedented footsteps of aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, for whom everything is possible. So why not have the apple-shaped hands, with their caliber 320 MC inverted hand-wound mechanical movement, move backwards instead of forwards?

Of course, this timeless watch remains faithful to the elegant original model from 1904 and the pioneering spirit of Santos-Dumont, whose signature Cartier has engraved both forward and backward on the back of the dial. It is a limited edition of 200 numbered pieces.

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