MTF[PuristS]
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Review of Cartier new watches 2015: feedback
Jan 26, 2015,01:29 AM
Dear FrX,
Thank you for the rapid overview report of the Cartier new watches for 2015 with more reports to come.
SOLID CASE BACK
I agree that the Cartier Rotonde Reversed Tourbillon should have been made more 'PuristS' by a solid caseback. That would have made it even flatter and elegant. There is nothing much to see and the decoration is bland. By using a solid caseback, the sense of 'Gallic disregard' for market trends would have been emphasised.
GRAND COMPLICATION
When I saw the new Cartier Rotonde Grande Complication in your photograph, even though it was a Cartier SIHH 2015 Report, I thought of Vacheron Constantin.
That is actually high praise as VC was the King and Queen of skeletonised Grande Complications in the traditional Big-3 of haute horlogerie.
Later, I saw the Cartier crown and Cartier logo engraved on dial and winding rotor.
The springs, levers and clicks are very fine whilst still decorated. Being Geneva Sealed, those springs are not wire but crafted from flat metal.
TORTUE
As a Cartier Paris Collection Privee collector of some Tortue variants, I am pleased that the elegant watch has returned to the portfolio following the Tank LC from last year. The first Cartier watch that the current Mrs MTF presented to me was the CPCP Tortue. The case shape has special meaning from an aesthetic as well as Chinese symbolic viewpoint.
CLE
We wait to see what this range does. The shape has been done before by other brands and I have the museum photos; but Cartier has the knack of incorporating their own motifs "to make it their own". Certainly, Ballon Bleu was and is a Success......even the current Mrs MTF insisted to have one (and I am jealous). The true test is what she says when I show e new Cartier Cle to her.........
CONCLUSION
Overall, a Good Year for Cartier in the SIHH Desert of Mediocrity with intermittent Oases of Brilliance.
Regards,
MTF
This message has been edited by MTF on 2015-01-26 06:21:34