Cartier Calibre Watches News

The big news from Cartier for 2010 is the Calibre collection of watches. While they did release a few impressive highly complex watches (not to mention a tourbillon version of the Calibre watch), those aren’t going to be volume models. The Calibre will be a much more affordable timepiece with a fresh and modern look along with the Cartier name. As a thick layer of icing on the cake, the Calibre is named as such for having a Cartier in-house made movement.

That’s right. The jewelry brand can finally satisfy the connoisseur’s need for exclusive in-house movements and the brand’s famous style. The movement is the 1904 MC, named for the first year that Cartier made a watch. The movement is an automatic with two mainspring barrels, 48 hours of power reserve, and a hack seconds complication. It further features ceramic ball bearings for the automatic rotor which winds the watch when spinning in both directions Also, it looks like the movement will be able to be a base for more complex movements in the future that will be in the "affordable" range.

The Calibre watch name is a bit silly to most hardcore watch lovers, but is playfully simple meaning only "watch movement reference" really. Most of Cartier’s client’s however would not refer to a watch movement as a "calibre," so that is OK.

At least Cartier stuck with the simple and classy names that most of its watches have. The style of the Calibre watch takes some getting used to. It is not one of those instant "must haves,bvlgari watches; but then again, none of its watches are. They are more handsome watches that take time to appreciate until putting one in your collection seems to make sense. I have a feeling if they released the Santos watch tomorrow many people would find it boring.

Yet after it being around for so long we all consider it a classic. My prediction is that it will be a few years of Cartier Calibre promotion before the love sets in. Having said that I actually quite like the look a lot. I think that Cartier made a few ephemeral design choices but overall they did a nice job.

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