three different really unusual and interesting tortue watches
from Cartier here at SwissWatchExpo.
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Louis Cartier was an absolute genius in the watchmaking world and in 1912 he came out
with this shape which he called the tortue means turtle and French but it has been one
of the most successful watch shapes that any watch company has ever debuted other
than the obvious round or rectangular. it's an interesting case shape it's not exactly
a tunnel which is means barrel the tunnel is flat on the top and bottom and just curved on
the sides but the tortue has this little curve to it that really gives it a much more sort of
a sensual curve to it that is a lot more interesting and I love the modern sizes of
the tortue that Cartier has done over the last 10 to 20 years and they've given us a lot of
interesting variety because we have the original which is just the time you have the guilloche
dial with the hand engraved swirls that sort of mimic the cobblestones in the streets in Paris
you have the traditional Roman numeral dial with the blue Breguet hands and a natural sapphire on
the crown the deployant buckle which Cartier of course invented and then the exhibition caseback
and this is a manufacture caliber workshop crafted movement and you can even see they've
incorporated the blued Cartier C into the adjuster on the balance to really underscore that this is
their own movement and this one is fantastic there's nothing wrong with this one I could
certainly see someone extremely sophisticated wearing this I remember there was a movie I saw
with Pierce Brosnan in it it was not a a James Bond movie but he was playing this sort of super
debonair suave kind of guy that this is brings to mind that kind of guy wearing this watch so you
know maybe it's a little aspirational for a lot of people but I think that the more complicated
ones are a lot of interest in them as well so you might love just the simplicity I do love a dial
that has symmetrical that does not have a lot of things going on on it a lot of negative space of
plain real estate on the dial but I also love the complications you know this one that we have here
has a subsidiary seconds hand and the large date and the large date is really interesting
the way it goes around it's two different date wheels and so you see the tens digit and the
ones digit change separately and of course when you get to midnight at one of those times where
it's going to flip over it it's kind of fun to watch it do it and again you have the deployant
buckle the exhibition caseback the Cartier blue adjuster but this is the one that when it came in
I was amazed and I looked at it and said I've never seen that one before this one is such an
interesting layout it doesn't have a date it's a GMT and it shows the day night and the way it does
it here at the bottom it has either the moon which you can see now or it flips over to the sun during
the daytime in your second timezone and it has a pointer that points and there's from 6 to 6 so the
the Moon shows from 6 p.m to 6 a.m and the Sun from 6 a.m to 6 p.m and it's just a fascinating
movement and a really interesting look and definitely a watch that would be a conversation
piece anywhere that you were to wear it give us a call here at SwissWatchExpo we're happy to offer
a FaceTime video we can show you the operation of the watch and how it works and ship it out
to you and these are all in stock and ready to go you can have them as early as tomorrow if you get
your order placed by 4 Eastern. we're happy to get them out to you and could definitely make your day