Creative, inventive, whimsical and ingenious, watches with complications approach time as a science of accuracy. Lively and learned, they chant, repeated, wake up, calculate, watches endowed with reason whose realization depends on parameters increasingly complex.
The perfection of forms devised and designed by the jeweler, married to the movement of fine watchmaking and will remain the secret of Cartier. The first watches appeared in the archives of Cartier in 1853 including pocket watches of classical and other, more fantasy. At that time watchmaking technology progresses significantly. Reduction in size, simpler mechanisms, resistance and enhanced reliability are achieved on small movements that are not abandoned, however, the high complication watches. All functions are discussed, and it explores solutions to the rhythm where we explore the world, the ocean, the sky and finally the time itself.
The Cartier watch is also an exercise in style, staged an hour as is the case for the pocket watch crystal, platinum and enamel noir4. Purpose of precision work of art whose apparent simplicity hides the complexity of the mechanism. The audacity of materials, the lightness of guilloche decoration, the presence of a bright triangular ruby as an already miniature needle her a subject of the future, modern.
Pretext for countless creations, time fires the imagination of Louis Cartier who devotes a workshop at its watchmaking. It adds a collection of clocks and watches to those of particular interest attaches to the wrist watch. At the time, Edmond Jaeger is one of the best watchmakers in Paris and has a passion for movement and slimline complication. It reserves to Cartier’s production of repeated movements, chronograph, flyback, date or fitted with other complications. This intense collaboration between two artists of great talent, born fabulous achievements, all different, each of which reflect a personality of its own.