Cartier

Sometimes the inspiration for a timepiece design can be done completely by accident. But if that accident happens to be in the right place at the right time, then a sensation is born. The first line of Cartier Crash watches came out in 1967, and they have an interesting, if not intense, story that goes with them. It seems that a former Cartier executive was involved in a fiery car crash while wearing a Bagnoire Alongee piece. The Alongee had an oval shape that was deformed in t...

You had to be bold in those early days of flight when everything was so uncertain. You had to be original enough to tell the world that flight was possible and you weren`t afraid to show the world. That`s the way of the flamboyant Alberto Santos-Dumont. The Franco-Brazilian builder flew his fixed wing aircraft in 1906 on the European continent; just three years after the Wright brothers had achieved the first sustained flight in the U.S. His daring originality is captured in Cartier Santos, Worl...

Few artists were more eclectic and mysterious than Andy Warhol. Once his particular style of art started to catch on, Warhol was rewarded with the financial resources to pursue some of his more eccentric projects. One of the things that Warhol did was procure a six-story townhouse in the middle of Manhattan in 1974, and then moved in without ever unpacking his belongings. What made this behavior odd is that Warhol was a reputed collector of anything he could get his hands on that he fel...

Of all the new unique watches that are being made available to the public, it should go without saying that some of Cartier's ideas are some of the most forward thinking. What makes these watches so exciting to so many watch bloggers, however, is not only that they are introducing new technologies. As a matter of fact, the Cartier way is very classic. It is the complete perfecting of some of the master technologies. Looking at some of this French watch designer and producer's newest models, howe...