Cartier Clé de Cartier Watches

Founded in the year 1847, by Louis Francois Cartier, the Cartier is a French luxury watch brand. The brand has been highly acclaimed for its unique jewellery designs and timepieces. The Cartier has an impressive history of inventing distinguished geometric timepieces. Since it made a debut in the world of horology, the Cartier has revolutionised the watchmaking industry. It has victoriously established a renowned mark for itself. Encashing long expertise and experience of 172 years the brand stands high for its perfection and precision in the watch manufacturing. Even in the past, it was one of the favoured brands for Britain's royal families. Being fantastic and distinguished in its every debut the Cartier has left no milestone unaccomplished to make a name for itself.

Even the launch of Cartier's completely new line of watches – the Clé de Cartier, in the year 2015, made a great hit. Through this, the legendary watch brand owed to honour its rich heritage. With all new attributes including shape, case, crown, and movement this Cartier watch exudes an elegance via its every design angle. Being offered in 31mm, 35mm and 40mm case sizes, the Cle de Cartier watches appropriately appeal both men and women.
Well, in order to have a deep insight on its features and functionalities let's read further:

The Case
The case shape of Cartier Cle de Cartier watches are simply the circular ones which are further adorned by the fluid contours. Being graceful the cases of these Cartier watches are suspended and integrated into the curved, horn-shaped lugs. These lugs are curved well so as to rest comfortably against your wrist. Apart from this, the Cartier watch also features a uniquely designed key, in the form of a pivot for setting the time and date. This different approach is reminiscent of the design elements used in the '60s and '70s watch designs.

The Crown
The crown of the Cle de Cartier embellishes the watch with a real wow factor. It has a unique square crown which is inspired by the winding keys used on antique clocks and pocket watches. Owing to its innovative design, the crown operates very differently from the traditional prototypes. Instead of rotating freely in the normal position, it either aligns to the horizontal or vertical axis. Whereas for setting the time and date you are just required to pull the crown outwards and it starts operating like other crowns.

The Dial
The Clé de Cartier watches have a beautiful and very classic dial. Their design aesthetics are a bit traditional. Featuring an opaline guilloché centre encapsulated by a pearl-white outer periphery the watch looks really stunning. Additionally, Cartier's signature design elements such as blued sword-shaped hands, blue Roman numerals, and central silvered flinqué sunray finish provide the Cartier watch overall with a very different look. Moreover, the presence of date window at the 6 o'clock hour marker lends the dial a centre stage within the perfectly circular and rounded bezel.

The Movement
The Clé watches are equipped with the Cartier's in house movement, named 1847 MC. This new self-winding movement has an exceptional power reserve of around 42-hours and beats at the rate of 28,800 vph. Before the launch of this calibre, the Cartier watches were embedded with the ETA movements. But since the launch of 1847 MC, the Cartier watches majorly relied on using this movement thus resulting in the reduction in brand's long term reliance on the ETA movements.

The Cle de Cartier watch collection
The Cle de Cartier line up has across 22 models under its hood. While it is surprising to learn that all the variants under this Cartier collection carry the same dial features. Although, for bracelets, you can get various options. Most of the models in this collection come with a metal bracelet that is made using materials such as stainless steel, yellow gold or rose gold. There are even a few two-tone bracelets available. Apart from this you also have a choice of opting for alligator leather straps. In this collection the Cartier watches for men have 12 different variants, offering different bracelets, dial colours and dimensions. Even for the woman watch enthusiasts, the collection has a lot to offer. In fact, it is one of the famous brands for the womens watch segment.

By debuting the Cle de Cartier line of watches the brand has established a mark for itself in the watch history. These Cartier watches are highly functional, comfortable, and elegant. The innovative crown, the complex curvature of the case, and the baroque dial, all of the elements of these watches are impeccable. Every small detail in these Cartier watches has been so skillfully embedded that when clothed they lend you an overall distinguished persona.