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WHAT WE LOVE:
The Clé de Cartier — "clé" meaning key — takes its name and its defining design detail from the winding key of antique clocks: the crown, set with a blue synthetic spinel cabochon, is elongated and rounded in a form that references a traditional clock winding key. It is a design choice that is simultaneously historical and entirely contemporary, and it gives the Clé an immediately recognisable profile that no other watch from any other brand replicates. At 40mm in polished stainless steel with soft curves and clean continuous lines, this is Cartier at their most confident in purely contemporary design.
The silvered flinqué sunray effect dial is the most considered element of the composition: a fine sunray texture over a silver ground, visible as a gentle radial pattern that catches directional light and creates depth where a flat silver surface would be inert. Against this, the blue Roman numeral hour markers — a Cartier signature applied across multiple collections but deployed here with particular restraint — and the blued steel sword-shaped hands create a dial that is classical without being conservative. The sapphire exhibition caseback and the transparent display back confirm the Calibre 1847 MC movement is visible and finished to Cartier's manufacture standard.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
Powered by Cartier Manufacture Calibre 1847 MC — 23 jewels, 28,800 vph, approximately 48-hour power reserve, self-winding automatic. The 1847 MC is Cartier's own manufacture movement, developed in-house and bearing the manufacture designation that confirms it was created and assembled at Cartier's La Chaux-de-Fonds facilities. Date display at 6 o'clock.
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