The Double Mystery Tourbillon is a visual spectacle. Playing off the company’s history of “mystery clocks”, Cartier created this timepiece with a tourbillon that appears to be floating in space.
Cartier Website
Cartier’s Head of Fine Watchmaking – and winner of “Best Watchmaker Prize” at this year’s Grand Prix – is Carole Forestier-Kasapi. It probably goes without saying that watchmaking is still very much dominated by men, but Carole has been a breath of fresh air at Cartier. More manufacturers should take a tip from Cartier and realize that a female perspective can be just as valuable, if not more so, in watchmaking.
Back in 2001 they built their own manufacturing house in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Swiss city filled with some of the greatest watchmaking manufacturers in the world. All of their most impressive time pieces have come out of La Chaux-de-Fonds
Perpetual calender Chronograph
Ballon Bleu de Cartier Tourbillon
Astrotourbillon
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This is a play on the common idiom “get your life on track”. As Dizzy matured he stopped doing hard drugs, so that he could focus on finding his path to success.
At this point, not only has he gotten his own life “on track” as a successful rapper, but he literally gets other artists to jump on his songs (tracks) as well.
Some rappers…It seems like Swizz Beatz and Jay Z are only two who could claim any true sense of the intricacies of owning a nice watch.
The prices for luxury watches have sky-rocketed in recent years, which is not necessarily a good thing. However, that high demand for quality time pieces has also meant an increase in the prices of vintage watches.
For example, a Rolex Explorer 1060 that cost $165 ($995 adjusted for inflation) in 1960, is now going for $10,000+ depending on the condition.
