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This is Cartier’s most famous and complicated watches and a new never published before collection. From their forms to their movements, Cartier watches are unique. They are an enduring combination of the unexpected and the classical. This book chronicles Cartier’s constant quest for excellence in the manufacture of complicated watches. From a Tortue single push-piece chronograph, created in 1929, to a contemporary Santos 100 skeleton watch, Cartier interprets complications in its own inimitable way, always with a sense of design. Laziz Hamani’s photographs capture these objects of exceptional technicity while author and expert Jack Forster shares the spirit that motivates each craftsman, engineer and artist to create the most stunning complicated watches.

Jack Forster is a journalist and author. He writes about watches, travel, style, and food. Laziz Hamani is a jewelry and still-life photographer and an art director of videos and books.

CONTENTS

THE WATCHES IN THE CARTIER COLLECTION:

A WATCHMAKING TRADITION FUELLED BY MODERNITY

THE MYSTERY CLOCKS

ARTISTIC CRAFTS, EXPERTISE:

WHEN CRAFTSMEN EXCEL

EXPERTISE IN FINE WATCHMAKING:

THE CARTIER MANUFACTURE 

INVENTIVENESS AND RESEARCH USED TO PERFECT A VISION

THE INNOVATION LABORATORY:

THE CONCEPT WATCHES CARTIER IDOne AND CARTIER IDtwo

THE DESIGNER‘S PERSPECTIVE

THE WATCHES IN THE CARTIER COLLECTION:

AWATCHMAKING TRADITION FUELLED BY MODERNITY

For this exhibition, Cartier Time Art – Mechanics of Passion, more than 150historical pieces have been selected from among the treasures of the CartierCollection, making a unique assembly of timepieces and objects dating fromCartier’s earliest years to the present time. Since the collection was createdin 1983, it has been exhibited regularly in world-renown museums, most recentlyin the Grand Palais, Paris, in December 2013.

Inaddition to famous creations such as the Santos wristwatch (first sold in1911),the very rare pocket watch with multiple complications produced in 1927,or even the exceptional Tortue minute-repeater wristwatch watch from 1928, thisexhibition presents a rare selection of mystery clocks.Thisselection of pieces illustrates the technical and aesthetic evolution of thejeweller-watchmaker on the rue de la Paix, and shows how its wealth ofinspirations fits a coherent style. Shaped watches or complication watches,they all reveal the unity of what is recognized as the Cartier style.