it's a great day at SwissWatchExpo I'm Tim and today I'm going to introduce
you to the Cartier Tank Louis XL Power Reserve
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so welcome back and today we are going to talk about the the Tank Louis XL Power Reserve but
just a little bit of history with the Tank series it's been around for over 100 years
and during that time they've come up with many sizes and some small we have the large we have
the extra large and the jumbo but what's kind of unique about the the Cartier Tank series itself is
the fact that they've kept it relatively small in regards to a lot of the watches out there in the
industry to become to be a watch that is actually still relatively smaller in size and still so
popular so they are it really says a lot with a Cartier name itself and that design or that Tank
style design that that they really made famous and over 100 years ago as I mentioned earlier
looking at this piece and speaking of sizes we're looking at the Tank Louis XL and this is
the Power Reserve it's a beautiful watch with an 18 karat rose gold case the piece is actually a 30
millimeter horizontal case with a 39 vertical case it really shows a very nice feel on your wrist as
I put it on here I have about a seven and a half inch wrist and you can see that this timepiece
really fits beautifully on my wrist as you can see so they did a really good job with this case
now what's nice about this timepiece too is we have two pieces that are going to have the first
you have the Silver guilloche dial and then you have the chocolate guilloche down now the Silver
guilloche dial or the chocolate both have the of course the iconic Cartier Roman numerals and those
Roman numerals are they really explode on the dial because of the size of the case and now at the 6
o'clock location of the timepiece you're going to see the power reserve and the power reserve
is a beautiful timepiece complication and because it's a manual wind it really shows how much time
you have less and it does measure always just a little bit past 40 on the timepiece now another
addition that this timepiece has too is just under the 12 o'clock you're going to see a date window
and it's a fairly large date window now you're going to see the day before, the day of, and the
day after now with those markings on there most timepieces that have this complication they're
going to be a really small window but Cartier was able to put this in a very large window also with
a slightly different color on the timepiece itself as far as the date so you can see the date window
really really well and it really gives that look that you don't see on a lot of other timepieces
now if we start to move the watch over to the side and see the profile you'll
see that iconic sapphire now the crown is going to have the sapphire cabochon crown
and a little bit of meaning behind that sapphire crown it really bridges that relationship between
their fine jewelry and the luxury watches and so you see that really come through because Cartier
is known for their Fine Jewelry just as much as they are for the fire watches so when you
flip over the timepiece you're going to see that the watch is water resistant to 100 meters and
you're going to see with the exhibition back you can see this gorgeous Piaget style movement 9753
MC manual wind movement now because of his manual wine it goes back to the reasoning for the power
reserve and this will give you a full 43 hours on a full charge the case itself it has a beautiful
brown strap on both of these timepieces that follow through in a clasp with the 18 karat red
rose gold Cartier clasp it really brings the whole thing together so if you would like to
put one of these two Cartier XL Power Reserves into your collection contact SwissWatchExpo.com