Reference Number: WGSA0102 Case Material: Steel Case Size: 31.4mm Price: $38,400 USD (~$58,400 AUD)
One of perfect replica Cartier’s most iconic collections, the Santos de Cartier needs no introduction. Featuring the brand’s signature square dial, theluxury fake Cartier Santos-Dumont is arguably one of the world’s first-ever pilot watches, earning its name from the pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont who required a high-precision instrument for when he took to the skies.
Released this year at Watches & Wonders, best 1:1 replica Cartier continued its tradition of blending elegance with cutting-edge innovation with a limited edition platinum release. Look beyond the aaa quality copy Cartier Santos-Dumont Rewind’s striking carnelian dial and you’ll see that the watch’s signature Roman numerals are counting in reverse, anti-clockwise, for a veritable feat of modern watchmaking.
Although, as this Swiss movement fake Cartier was only released in 200 pieces, it might not be possible to head to your nearest boutique to purchase… moving on.
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of perfect replica Cartier? For me, it’s probably a classic, rectangular Tank Solo with a white dial. For others, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of a few others – Santos, Love Bracelet, perhaps even a leashed panther. But how many think of a red-dialled, platinum watch that runs in reverse? Okay, the picture I paint of the luxury fake Cartier Santos-Dumont Rewind is a bit extreme – the reality is, as you’d expect from Cartier, a lot more refined. But that’s exactly the intrigue that surrounds this recent release, as it’s a move I’d expect from a micro or independent as opposed to a brand of the calibre of Cartier (pun fully intended). So, how exactly did aaa quality replica Cartier achieve this, and why did it choose to go in this direction? I can answer at least one of those questions objectively.
The movement Seeing as the reverse running of the Rewind is its main novelty, let’s start with the movement. Swiss made replica Cartier denotes the movement powering the Santos-Dumont Rewind as the 230 MC, which is a variant of the widely adopted 430 MC with reversed gearing. This 18-jewel calibre provides a 38-hour power reserve, beating at 3Hz, but only measuring in 2.1mm in height. Breaking down its origins further, the movement is actually developed from Piaget’s 430P, an unsurprising fact considering Piaget’s efforts in ultra-thin watchmaking. Sure, the result is perhaps not as impressive as some of cheap super clone Cartier’s other haute horlogerie efforts à la Masse Mystérieuse, but it is proof that Cartier is capable of manufacturing unique complications. The closed caseback doesn’t reveal much in terms of finishing, but the 430 MC is usually adorned with Cartier logo-embossed plates and circularly brushed wheels, so I’d expect the 230 MC to follow a similar course. Considering the level of decoration, I’m not mad high end replica Cartier chose not to display it.
The dial
Now, for the thing you’ll spend the most time looking at, both for its beauty and sure-fire confusion that is to ensue. The highly reflective Roman numeral indices are applied to a carnelian red stone dial, matched by delicate Breguet-style hands. There is no mention of its unique time-telling way on the dial – at first glance, the Rewind could easily pass as a regular Swiss movement copy Cartier Santos-Dumont. You’ve still got the signature white railroad minutes running around the dial’s perimeter, matched in colour by the minimal Cartier script above the pinion.
If you’re wondering whether there’s a trick in deciphering the Rewind’s dial, allowing you to easily get adjusted to its reverse running – well, there isn’t one. At least not one that I’ve figured out, though through the process of writing this review, I’ve actually become more and more accustomed to telling the time. I am glad that high quality replica Cartier went with numerals over just stick indices, as I envision those as taking a lot longer to get used to.
The case I know that the novelty of the best quality fake Cartier Santos-Dumont Rewind is the stone dial and reversed movement, but the platinum case has to be one of my favourites from any brand, period. The dimensions are pretty much perfect for a dressy-leaning all-rounder, and the platinum construction adds in any heft that might be lost thanks to the diminutive sizing.
At 31.4mm in width and 7.3mm in height, the top quality replica Cartier Santos-Dumont Rewind makes the most of the ultra-thin movement, leaving enough room for elegant lugs that stretch out to 43.5mm. The mirror-polished reflective bezel is picked up by other polished highlights on the lug bevels and crown, with the remainder of the case a highly textured brushed finish. The ruby cabochon on the beaded crown telegraphs that this is a platinum Cartier super clone for sale, a flex in the most Cartier of ways.
We recently spent some quality time with a one-of-a-kind, platinum Cartier Tank Cintrée, which is currently for sale for $110,000 through N.Y.C.’s Analog:Shift. The watch is a fascinating thing of beauty, and, as we investigated its origins further, it revealed a great deal about perfect Cartier replica watches (especially Tanks and the use of platinum), but also about Cartier and the brand’s rich history.
Analog:Shift is a by-appointment-only dealership in Manhattan headed by expert collector James Lamdin, who curates an always-impressive stock of vintage and neo-vintage watches. Visiting the Analog:Shift offices in Midtown is like entering a horological museum, replete with its expert curator, pin-lit display cases full of stunning copy watches online, and a library’s worth of reference books on watches.
Only sometimes doesluxury replica Cartier build custom watches, and only sometimes does the owner decide to flip it. The rarity of both situations can’t be overstated, and it is entirely reasonable to suggest that this platinum Tank Cintrée is one of the most interesting and compelling modern Cartier watches currently on the pre-owned market. You will not find another like it. It is one of one—for now, anyways. AAA quality fake Cartier does reserve the right to recreate the custom watches, and, accordingly, numbers them as “No. 1” and not as “No. 1 of 1.”
Swiss movement fake Cartier fills its annual watch catalog with models that appeal broadly, but these democratic recipes don’t always please the discerning pallets of serious watch collectors. When it comes to Cartier watches—and especially the many versions of the Tank—we watch aficionados can grow grumpy over the word “Automatic” appearing on the dial (wasn’t a thing when the Tank was invented), or we might long for a garnet instead of a blue sapphire cabochon atop the crown (because red is unique, and blue is not), or we might need a specific watch that’s not in the current super clone Cartier catalog (because our eye delights in rarity). For the fussier collectors among us, Cartier offers custom watches through its N.S.O. program, which stands for New Special Order.
You don’t need to be famous or to have recently purchased, say, a diamond tiara to gain access to high quality replica Cartier’s custom watch program, which loosely falls under Cartier’s highly regarded Privée monicker. You just walk into your local boutique and begin the conversation—though a pre-existing relationship will certainly help you plead your case for a custom timepiece.
Depending on how much of the watch you want to customize, you can expect to wait at least a year and perhaps as long as three years or more. Further, you may not be granted every wish you make, as top quality fake Cartier will push back on design choices it deems off-brand, or which don’t respect the specific watch model’s heritage. Then there’s price, which you may not know until well into the design process. And then, finally, you’ll need to drop 50 percent to secure your request before the real waiting begins, perhaps for years.
For all these reasons—and others we will detail below—this platinum Cartier Tank Cintrée replica for sale coming onto the pre-owned market is deeply compelling. Let’s dig into what makes a best quality replica Cartier like this so special.
As watch expert and author Jack Forester writes in his book Cartier Time Art: Mechanics of Passion, “Quality control at the Cartier Manufacture is integral to both the development and production of timepieces. During each stage of the development of a watch, all components are subjected to exhaustive testing to ensure their functionality, durability and ergonomic suitability. The Manufacture articulates the four goals of quality control as Aesthetics, Ergonomics, Chronometry and Integrity….” Having handled this Tank Cintrée and other models produced at high end copy Cartier’s Manufacture, this rigorous QC protocol is obvious in every detail.
As for the use of platinum here, it is relatively rare that any Cartier watch is produced in platinum. (This remains true for most major watch brands. Just as salmon dials are often reserved for special clients by Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin, so are platinum cases.) Platinum has a special history at Cartier going back to the creation of avant-garde jewelry settings.
Francesca Cartier Brickell writes in her family memoir, The Swiss movement replica Cartier’s, The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire, that early on platinum was, “Still used predominately for large-scale industrial purposes,” and “was not easily available for jewelers (who required only small amounts) in its pure form.” Cartier Brickell says that her great uncle Louis Cartier, inventor of the Tank, said that it’s “no easy task to transform the thin, light metal into a support for precious stones.” By studying the under carriage of train cars, Louis Cartier began to see how to use platinum, and, “Before long, top copy Cartier had kick-started a revolution in jewelry through the use of this bright, strong metal,” she explains.
The Paris atelier produced one Cartier Tank Cintrée fake for sale in platinum as early as 1924, according to Jack Forester in Cartier Time Art. But it is watch expert and historian Franco Cologni who details the use of platinum in the Tank watches. In his definitive history, best copy Cartier, The Tank Watch (Flammarion 1998), Cologni writes that, “it is impossible to be sure whether the ‘first Tank’ had a gold or a platinum watchcase.”
The Cartier Tank Cintrée replica online we spent time with lives up to Cologni’s flowery description—especially given the squared-off Arabic numerical font which makes this dial so unique. But it’s the curved case that makes the the Cintrée tres chic. Cologni goes on to explain that, “The first important modification that the basic form underwent…gave rise to a new family of Tanks in 1921: the fake Cartier Tank Cintrée (‘curved’), the main characteristic of which was the case curving inward toward the wrist.”
However, interestingly, this curvature was originally intended to improve ergonomics, but was later found to not be a significant improvement over the fit of a small, flat Cartier Tank replica online uk. It was likely Louis Cartier insisting that wrist watches imitate jewelry bracelets in every way possible that led to this unique curved watchcase, and it is just one more way in which this one-of-a-kind Cintrée stands out among so many wonderful Cartier fake watches paypal on the market today.
