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Presenting the ubiquitous beauty is Cartier’s philosophy that provides a source of energy for Cartier’s creative design, and it is the origin of the birth of the Cartier Baignoire watch.

Everything starts with a novel attempt to discover the power of watchmaking design in ordinary things. In the 1910s, Cartier first introduced an oval-shaped watch, which was constantly innovated in the future. Cartier uses the two elements of the brand’s aesthetic style – sublimation of everyday objects and relentless pursuit of beauty to create a classic and timeless Cartier Baignoire watch.

Cartier Baignoire Collection Watch

The Cartier Baignoire watch is designed for intellectual ladies. This unique ladies’ watch is not limited to fashion trends, perfectly highlighting the French elegance that transcends the times.

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Jeanne Moreau

Romy Schneider

Cartier Baignoire watches has appealed Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau and others who are with cultural connotations and tastes, they advocate the spirit of freedom Praise for excellence and strive to write a good life.

As the name suggests, the Cartier Baignoire watch is reminiscent of the legendary history of Cartier. In 1912, Louis Cartier innovated the traditional round watch and extended it. The two parallel lines are connected to two rounded curves, forming a shape like a bathtub, so the Cartier Baignoire watch is named after it. Since then, this style has been constantly changing and innovating. By the end of the 1950s, the original elliptical shape of the watch was slightly curved, with a Roman numerals or Arabic numerals on the dial, and a gold round sculpture, it has become the beginning of the emergence of ideas in the future.

Cartier Baignoire Collection Watch

Today’s Cartier Baignoire watch is completely re-conceived by Cartier design studio, while continuing its style as always. The refinement is more refined and elegant, with a delicate balance between purely simple design and delicate lines, this timepiece is designed to pay tribute to the classic Cartier Baignoire watch that was born in 1958. Based on the original design without changing: the strap is more slender, the re-combined Roman numerals are used on the silver matte dial, and the bottom cover is integrated with the case, which is water resistant to 30 meters, and in line with modern watches’s quality standards. The Cartier Baignoire watch continues Cartier’s classic aesthetics, since the geometrical oval shape is beautiful and charming. The 18K yellow gold watch shines brightly on the wrist while the beautiful diamonds on the 18K white gold watch is staggered along the edge and extends from the edge to the under the case, even the sights not visible also show exquisite craft.

Cartier Baignoire Allongée Collection Watch

At the end of 1960, the Cartier Baignoire watch ushered in the second peak of style history. In the era of the “Swinging London” trend, the Cartier London workshop launched the Cartier Baignoire Allongée. The elliptical shape of the Cartier Baignoire Allongée is stretched into an oversized style for women to wear, simple and stylish, and personal independence. The watch becomes a wrist declaration that expresses individuality.

Cartier Baignoire Allongée Watch

This Cartier Baignoire Allongée watch is the third climax of the history of the Cartier Baignoire watch. The Cartier Baignoire watch has become a creative theme that continually inspires new inspiration, while renewing its elegance and rejuvenating its vitality. Cartier boldly draws on the Parisian embossing in the jewellery design, and directly engraves the spiked decoration on the gold bezel to show the beauty and exquisiteness.

Since its birth in 1904, the Santos de Cartier has been writing legends. As the pioneering work of the engineering era in the early twentieth century, the Santos de Cartier watch has become a symbol of modern style with its unique aesthetic design and groundbreaking functions.

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Speaking of the Santos de Cartier series, it is actually a historical charm, its birth and the aviation field are closely related. Louis Cartier, when talking with his best friend Alberto Santos Dumont, the famous Brazilian pilot, learned about the situation faced by the pilots at the time, in order to meet their demands on reading time during the flight, the first Cartier timepiece designed for men to wear in the wrist was born.

Alberto Santos Dumont

This year, Cartier updated the Santos de Cartier collection to launch a new generation of SANTOS DE CARTIER watches. The brand-new Santos watch is centered on the iconic aesthetics of comfortable wearing, clever layout and continuation of the watch. On the one hand, it retains the classic design elements, on the other hand it can keep pace with the times and is not afraid of the passage of time, still in the trend of the fashion. Next, let’s take a look at the Cartier Santos de Cartier timepiece WSSA0010 which perfect for men.

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This time, Cartier upgraded the new model of the Santos de Cartier series, retaining the classic design and innovating on it, such as bezels, bracelets and movements. The innovation of the bracelet is one of the highlights of this model, because Cartier uses a QuickSwitch, which is a hidden mechanism that combines with the case, so that the wearer can replace the straps or bracelets of stainless steel and 18K gold with different materials, and match the style that they like, keeping up with the trend. In addition, Cartier also uses a metal bracelet adjustment SmartLink, which can easily adjust the length of the metal bracelet without tools. These two technologies of Cartier have provided great convenience to the watch friends.

The new models of the Santos de Cartier series retain the squares and lines borrowed from Parisian architecture, breaking the common round design. The square shape presented by it echoes the exquisiteness and symmetry conveyed by the aesthetics of Paris in the early twentieth century, in order to pay tribute to the square design of the Eiffel Tower. The bezel has been carefully redesigned to provide a smoother and more harmonious connection to the bracelet. The delicate and long lines make the watch more contemporary and energetic.

Eight classic screws have been retained on the bezel. In addition to their practicality, they also commemorate the ubiquitous mechanical steel structure of the golden city of Paris, which is full of avant-garde and bold charm.

The heptagon crown is located on one side of the watch and is inlaid with a multi-faceted synthetic spinel. The tough straight line and the case are set against each other, blending modern fashion elements.

The white dial continues the large Roman numeral time scale design of the Santos de Cartier collection, with a track dial and blue steel hands for a clearer reading time. The classic and fashion collisions between the wrists make the charm of the man come out.

The straps made of stainless steel are exquisite and meticulous, and the two techniques mentioned above are technically used, so that you can do whatever you want in the event. It is very convenient to easily match the straps of different colors and materials according to different occasions.

This time Cartier used the self-produced 1847MC self-winding movement on this watch, which is excellent in diamagnetic, waterproof and anti-jamming. The power reserve is 42 hours. On this movement, Cartier showed his mastery of watchmaking skills and relentless pursuit.

From the value to the technology, Cartier’s new Santos de Cartier collection watch can make people feel excited. In 2018, it is based on the classics, combining vintage style with modern avant-garde atmosphere, so that every city man can show his charm. After all, the watch is like a person, walking on the road of fashion.