Fresh from the showcase here, we're going to display all of our Cartier and my favorite
lineup today.
I've got a bunch of selections here that I wanted to talk about because they are my favorite
pieces out of the Cartier lineup.
Right now I'm wearing a Cartier Roadster, the hundredth anniversary XL, and the reason
that I'm wearing this watch is because I wanted to answer some questions for a lot of the
folks that call in.
This is a bigger watch.
I wear a watch between seven and a half and seven and three quarters inch, in terms of
the bracelet length on my wrist.
So that tells you that I have a larger wrist.
This watch works very, very well on my wrist.
However, if you have a smaller wrist, this one may not be as good for you.
It may feel a bit tall and clunky, and the reason is because from lug to lug, this watch
is 48 millimeters in length.
Now it's not as wide as it is long, so it doesn't feel super large, but it does have
that long presence.
If you have a smaller wrist bone, it can hang off on either side.
The reason this is important is because we have a lot of folks that call in.
The blue being my favorite.
Obviously in the lineup of Cartier, when you talk about blues, they have different variations
and shades of the blue, and this hundredth anniversary has a sort of a turquoise blue-green
color, depending on the light that you're in.
So that can be very, very interesting.
This original blue Roadster here, this is a 43 millimeter from top of the lug to the
bottom of the lug on the watch.
Again, the width is not as big, so it doesn't feel as large.
I actually want to show you this on my wrist.
I'm going to take off the XL version here.
I want to put on the smaller 43.
Now, 43 millimeters is not a small watch by any means, but on my wrist, it can look a
little bit smaller by virtue of the fact that it's not as wide.
It still looks great.
It can be worn casually by someone with a wrist size like mine.
It could be a little bit more dressy as well.
The larger size probably looks a little bit more sporty because it is that large size
that fills in my entire wrist.
Although with Roadsters, they are still a very classic piece.
Now, one of the other things that I absolutely love about the Roadsters, they have a bracelet
that you can interchange.
They have multiple different bracelets you can get from Cartier.
They have a little spring set on the backside of the watch, you just pinch it and pull it
in the bracelet comes out very, very quickly.
So, they have a positive lock engagement when you put it back into the lugs of the watch,
it clicks and it locks, and you can pull - you can see that it's very, very secure.
A lot of people ask about that.
These are water resistant watches.
They're very easy to wind and set.
These throwback to the art deco days, which is one of the reasons why I love the watch.
It has a lot of influence from automotive design.
It has a lot of art deco design from thirties, forties, and fifties, that they all sort of
put into these watches to make them classy and sporty at the same time.
Now they no longer offer the Roadster, and these are getting very, very hard to come
by.
I do want to make sure that you understand that the colors and the variations on these
watches are getting very slim to find in the marketplace.
In fact, actually the prices have gone up over the past few years.
The investment value of this watch seems to be pretty steady.
A lot of people ask that question as well.
Now I'm going to actually put these two side by side, and I'm going to display the Cartier
- because this is a Cartier XL 48 millimeters from top to bottom - there's also the Chronograph
and a lot of people don't realize that this is also an XL.
I'm going to set these two down.
The Cartier XL Chronograph is also 48 millimeters from top to bottom.
This watch is the silver dial.
Now the silver dial is probably one of the single most popular, I happen to prefer the
black dial on these.
It's very, very hard to find the black dial on these, by the way, one of my other favorite
pieces.
Now I'm going to move on to the Tank Solo XL.
The interesting thing about this watch, and I want to show you, this Cartier XL Roadster
is 48 millimeters from top to bottom.
The Tank Solo is 42, but by virtue of the fact that the dial goes all the way outside,
to the outside edge of the case.
You tend to notice that this XL Ronde Solo looks huge, but it's not.
It's only 42 millimeters.
So it's just playing a trick on your mind.
Now I'm going to put this watch on my wrist because then you'll start to see an effective
difference in the size.
If you have a larger wrist like mine, this watch looks just at home even though it's
a 42 millimeter.
It's an absolutely amazing looking watch.
It's very thin, and it's dressy.
Now, moving on to the watch here.
This is the Ballon Bleu.
Now I picked out the Ballon Bleu because of the fact that it's got the black dial.
I absolutely love this watch it's on a strap.
You can get it on the bracelet.
They're pretty hard to find in the black dial, so do remember that what you typically find
is the silver dial on this.
Sometimes we even have the brown dial.
This one is a really great looking piece.
They do come in a rose gold and stainless steel option.
This again is a 42 millimeter, but because of the way that the shape of the case looks
here, and the way that it's rounded and tapers on the end, it looks just a snitch smaller
than even the Ronde Solo XL even though they're physically the same size in terms of width.
Now, I want to put this one on my wrist.
I want you to be able to see this, look.
This watch looks right at home.
It's also dressy, and I really think that it's got a great casual look as well.
It's easy to wear, and this happens to be the chronograph version.
There's a three hand version of this watch as well.
I absolutely love the way that this watch looks.
I could wear this every day without question.
I want to move on to the Santos XL The Santos XL is another mind trick.
It's a visual trick.
This watch is 38 millimeters by 38 millimeters.
In fact, actually it's probably more like 39 millimeters by 39 millimeters because it's
actually 38 and a half.
So this watch actually looks physically larger than it really is.
A lot of people ask, this is the XL version of the Santos 100 and they want to know, will
this watch look too big on my wrist?
Well, let's answer that question.
When I put it on my wrist, it looks right at home.
But if you have a smaller wrist, you probably don't want the XL.
There's several different sizes and versions of the Santos 100.
So you definitely want to give us a call and ask us about what size might be right for
you.
Again, you have a larger wrist, the XL is probably the one that you would want.
Or if you just like wearing a bigger watch than the average size for your wrist, then
this would be a great choice.
Santos is a really great watch.
One of the things about this watch is it does have that butterfly clasp, even though it
is in the strap.
It has an infinitely adjustable strap here so that you can custom tailor it just to the
right size of your wrist as well.
It's a really, this is one of my favorite Santos models.
Now this happens to be the Solo.
So this is a watch that's a version - these are both Solos here.
This is an XL and this is a Tank.
So the round versus the rectangular pattern, even though this watch is 40 millimeters tall,
they look similar in their length, even though they're not.
You have to hold them side by side, to be able to kind of tell that differentiation.
Now there's a lot of different versions of this Tank Solo.
This particular watch, once again, is the largest version.
I want to display it on my wrist because I want you to realize that this is a big watch
as well.
It looks really great on my wrist, in addition to the rest of these.
So I've chosen all of the watches that look best on my large wrist, because most people
don't realize how big that XL pattern is on all of the different Cartiers.
I'm hoping that you'll be able to use this video to help learn a little bit more about
what might work on your wrist.
If you have any other questions, you can always give us a call here at SwissWatchExpo.
Visit us at SwissWatchExpo.com.
We constantly have new versions of these watches in our inventory.
Once again, as I said to you, the Cartier Roadster is my favorite.
So, I highly encourage this particular watch, especially the hundredth anniversary, maybe
you'll be lucky enough to pick it up.
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We've got a lot of interesting things and colors to see, but now you realize just how
big these Cartier XLs are.