Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Cartier – Rotonde de Cartier Day and Night




















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Here Cartier reinvents a famous complication from its watchmaking heritage: the Rotonde de Cartier Day and Night watch with retrograde moon phases, caliber 9912 MC.

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Day and night are indicated by a disk covering half of the dial that rotates over 12 hours and features a sun and moon motif. In harmony with the sky, the Rotonde de Cartier watch indicates the phases of the moon with a retrograde hand in the form of a lunar crescent. Such creative motifs and shapes rendered with stylistic flair are a signature of Cartier style.

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Rotonde de Cartier Day and Night watch, retrograde moon phases, 43.5 mm, Manufacture mechanical self-winding movement 9912 MC. Case in palladium, beaded crown in palladium set with a blue sapphire cabochon, white galvanized guilloché dial, silvered grid with transferred black Roman numerals, apple-shaped minute hand in blued steel, moon-phase retrograde hand in the form of a lunar crescent in blued steel.

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Strap in black alligator skin, double adjustable folding buckle in 18K white gold and pink gold. Complication indicators day and night with retrograde moon phases. Individually numbered movement containing 290 parts including 44 jewels.
Total diameter of movement: 30 mm, thickness: 6.44 mm, balance: 28,800 vibrations/ hour, power reserve approx. 48 hours. Sapphire crystal and case back. Case thickness: 12.77 mm. Water-resistant to 3 bar (30 meters).

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Rotonde de Cartier Day and Night

REF: W1556244 Palladium
REF: W1556243 Pink Gold
  Movement
    Self Winding/Automatic
    Manufactured caliber 9912 MC
    Balance: 28,800 vibrations/ hour
    Power reserve: 48 hours
 Functions:
    Hours, Minutes,
    Day & Night Indicator,
    Moon Phase
 Case:
    Round
    Palladium (Pink Gold)
    Polished
    43.50mm
    12.77mm
 Glass:
    Sapphire and case back
 Buckle:
    Deployment Buckle
    White gold
 Strap:
    Leather Alligator strap
 Water resistance:
    3.00atm / 30.00m
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EDOX – CLASS-1 ICEMAN III Limited Edition


EDOXCLASS-1 ICEMAN III Limited Edition NEW

EDOX Iceman Steels For Record Ice Dive

Jumping into a freezing, ice-covered lake and then plunging 75 metres under the ice into the pitch black - all the while holding your breath, only a 5mm neoprene wetsuit to help block out the mind-numbing cold.

However free diving champion Christian Redl is neither mad, nor reckless - and his attempt next month to break his own world record for free diving under the ice, dubbed Mission X-Deep, will be the culmination of many, many months of meticulous preparation.

When 38-year-old Redl, nicknamed The Iceman, enters the frigid waters of Austria's Lake Weissensee on February 15 he faces a test of human endurance that requires ice-cool concentration, superb physical conditioning and - thanks to boutique Swiss watchmaker Edox - an ultra-reliable dive watch.

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Edox is official timing partner for Austrian-born Redl, who will be wearing a Edox Iceman III timepiece on the dive.
The Iceman III is the ideal companion for Redl's extreme dive exploits and a successor to the Edox Iceman I he wore in 2011 when he set his world under-ice free diving record (61 metres), also at Lake Weissensee.
The Iceman III is perfectly suited to Redl's Mission X-Deep; water-resistant to 1000m, the case is forged from super-tough 316L stainless steel with black PVD coating and the 45mm watch features a striking black carbon fibre dial with ceramic unidirectional diver's bezel.
A Swiss quartz chronograph movement ensures super-accurate timekeeping, essential for Redl's dangerous task.

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Redl will use a powered water "scooter" to plunge down a guide rope into the lake's icy void and return to the surface via the same method. With the super cold and pressure squashing his lungs to the size of a fist, the Austrian will require the utmost concentration - and precision readings from the Iceman III - to keep focused mentally on the task at hand.
 
But ever since 1996 when Redl, then aged 20, saw the cult film The Big Blue and took up the extreme sport of free diving this is the type of challenge he has relished - and conquered. Redl is now considered one of the foremost free-diving specialists of his generation.

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For the Les Genevez-based Edox, which celebrates its 130th anniversary this year, Christian Redl's exploits in pushing the boundaries of human endurance are an ideal fit.

Edox, too, relishes pushing the limits of watchmaking to produce ultra-accurate, reliable and technically advanced timepieces. Edox is also the official timekeeper for the Extreme Sailing Series and the world's toughest motorsport event, the Dakar Rally. Last year Edox signed an agreement to become the official timekeeper of the World Curling Federation.

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