Rotonde de Cartier Double Tourbillon Mystérieux

W1556210

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Rotonde de Cartier Double Tourbillon Mystérieux

Brand  : Cartier
Collection  : Fine Watchmaking Collection
Model  : Rotonde de Cartier Double Tourbillon Mystérieux
Reference  : W1556210
Complement : Platinum - Aliigator Strap
Year : 2013
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  • Brand  : Cartier
    Collection  : Fine Watchmaking Collection
    Model  : Rotonde de Cartier Double Tourbillon Mystérieux
    Reference  : W1556210
    Complement : Platinum - Aliigator Strap
    Year : 2013
    Is not commercialised any more
    List Price : 177 000 €
    Diameter : 45 mm
    Styles : Atypical
    High Horology
    Types : Hand-winding
    Calibre : 9454 MC
    Calibre distinction : Hallmark of Geneva
    Côtes de Genève
    Complication : Tourbillon
    Case material : Platinum
    Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback
    Beaded platinum crown set with a sapphire cabochon
    Shape : Round
    Water-resistance : 30 meters
    Dial : Open
    Engraved
    Dial color : Silver
    Slate
    Display : Blued steel Sword-shaped hands
    Indexes : Roman numerals
    Glass : Sapphire
    Strap material : Alligator leather
    Strap color : Black
    Strap clasp : Folding buckle
    + More characteristics : Double Mystery Tourbillon

    Movement Manufacture mechanical with manual winding. calibre 9454 MC. certified Geneva Seal. double mystery tourbillon
    Casing-up diameter: 35 mm
    Total diameter: 35.5 mm
    Thickness: 5 mm  
    Number of jewels: 25
    Number of parts: 242
    Balance: 21.600 vibrations / hour
    Power reserve: 52 hours

    Dial slate-coloured. galvanised. guilloché. silvered open-work grill with sunray eect. black transferred Roman numerals

    Double adjustable folding buckle in 18-carat white gold

DESCRIPTION

  • CARTIER HOURS,
    FROM MYSTERY TO FANTASY...

    Time is much more than it seems


    At Cartier, time dreams, appears and vanishes, a material in its own right  to be transformed. Time is hypnotic, a pretext for the creation of incredible timepieces. Miracle' Magic' For Cartier hours, time is much more than it seems, a mystery here, a fantasy there. The questions are in the surprise. Where is the mechanism' What is the trick that makes the hands go round' Where is time hidden' Is it a ring' A watch' The answer is in the question, hidden beyond the technical skill, the creative mastery, the desire to bring illusion and duality into the magnetic field of watchmaking.

    It all began in 1912, with the creation of the first mystery clocks,  “miracles of watchmaking”, the newspapers said, marvelling at clocks whose hands seemed to float in rock crystal, totally unrelated to the movement.  The story continues through two timepiece collections, from mystery to fantasy, allegories of an exquisite time when forms went into freestyle;  an unpredictable time when watches went from jewel to brooch;  a mysterious time when the tourbillon escapement in the Rotonde watch  was displayed in utter transparency, as though suspended weightless  on the face.

    It was a jewellery and watchmaking challenge involving such technical complexity and such a host of professions – 150 in all – that only the utmost expertise would do. From the goldsmith to the enamellist, the lapidary to the watchmaker and the engraver to the jeweller, a chain of craftsmen linked  by the kind of excellence that commands a tortoise whose gemstone shell shields the hours, or has a diamond-studded phoenix oscillate in rhythm  with the ticking of the watch. 

    Nothing seems impossible, like the inventiveness of imagining starstruck mystery clocks, two timepiece UFOs in obsidian or agate marquetry that renew the genre, refreshing the fascination for an enigmatic time to which Cartier holds the secret, as Jean Cocteau was inspired to say: “Cartier,  subtle magician that holds the pieces of a moon on the thread of a sun.”

    Les Heures Mystérieuses de Cartier
     
    For over a hundred years, Cartier has been mastering mystery. Over time, this watchmaking ideal has led to the creation of Clocks and watches that crystallise the power of enchantment. 
     
    This year, Cartier presents two new watchmaking complications that push the frontiers of the mysterious yet further, continuing the founding tradition of the Maison. Inspired by the concept of transparency and hidden complexity, the watchmakers of the Cartier Manufacture confronted the challenge of bringing enthusiasts two new creations with clean lines that seem to glorify time with incredible lightness. The first mysteriously displays the hour and minutes with two hands that seem to float magically in space. The second focuses the attention on a mysterious double tourbillon whose floating cage performs a delicate and spellbinding dance.

    Montre Rotonde de Cartier Double Mystery Tourbillon

    Imagine a watch equipped with a tourbillon that seems to be suspended in space. That was the challenge taken up by Cartier with its new movement, the 9454 MC Double Mystery Tourbillon  certified by the Geneva Seal. Slightly closer inspection will reveal the magic concealed in the mechanism. Indeed the flying tourbillon, which turns once on its own axis every 60 seconds, appears to be floating completely free in space, with no visible connection to any gear train. The illusion is complete when the same tourbillon cage starts to perform a second rotation at a rate of one turn every five minutes. This product of Cartier’s creative daring and watchmaking know-how, the Double Mystery Tourbillon, is the quintessence of over a century of mystery creations from the Maison.
     
    Magic transformed into science 

    In its simple elegance, which masks unbelievable complexity, the Rotonde de Cartier watch highlights a totally original mechanical construction named “Double Mystery”. The watchmakers of the Cartier Manufacture had to demonstrate boundless ingenuity in order for matter and movement to give birth to this fascinating kinetic sequence. When performing a conjuring trick, the magician has to distract the attention of his audience and convince them, by the illusion he produces, of the existence of preternatural forces. In the Rotonde Double Mystery Tourbillon, the design team took inspiration from the “tricks” of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, the father of modern magic, to create the illusion of levitation.
     
    Connoisseurs of watchmaking are aware that the mechanism of the tourbillon, in a vertical position, uses the rotation of the cage in a given time to shield the balance (the regulating organ) from the influence of the gravitational attraction of the Earth by smoothing out regularity errors (done by causing them to occupy every point on a circle in a given time). This fascinating device, set in the heart of the Rotonde Double Mystery Tourbillon, seems to defy the universal laws of gravity, giving the impression that it is floating unsupported in the void, and that its cage, rotating one turn in a minute and performing a complete rotation in its space in 5 minutes, has completely liberated itself from gravity.
     
    Hiding what should not be seen

    The watchmakers of the Cartier Manufacture have employed a disc of sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective finish containing an aperture the size of the tourbillon to give the best possible illusion of a cage in a state of levitation. To do this, they set the disc to support the cage in rotation. By doing this and positioning the minute wheel, which propels the oscillator, on the axis designed to limit the “resistance torque” inherent in the mechanism supporting the tourbillon, they succeeded in transmitting its force to the tourbillon, and thus causing the entire device to revolve in space once every 5 minutes. This results in the tourbillon making one full turn of the open, transparent space in 5 minutes, while the cage performs 5 complete revolutions in the same time... The ingenious way of achieving such a result is to place a rack
    around the edge of this sapphire crystal disc, transforming it into a large gear wheel that performs one revolution every 5 minutes. 

    Defying the laws of gravity 

    The 9454 MC Double Mystery Tourbillon movement is the result of long research. For example, numerous calculations were needed to determine the speed of rotation of the different moving parts. To optimise power consumption, the cage of the tourbillon performs one complete rotation in the space dedicated to it over 5 minutes – making it perform one turn per minute would have consumed 25 times as much energy. To improve the mechanical efficiency of this moving organ, the weight of its components had to be reduced to the minimum in order to limit the inertia of the rotating assembly comprising the disc and the titanium tourbillon cage. To compensate for the weight of the regulating organ and the “flying” cage, although the weight of the latter had been reduced to the absolute minimum (0.28 g), a circle segment designed to relieve the toothing has been positioned opposite the tourbillon to restore the equilibrium between the masses, with the effect of creating dynamic balance.

  • CARTIER HOURS,
    FROM MYSTERY TO FANTASY...

    Time is much more than it seems


    At Cartier, time dreams, appears and vanishes, a material in its own right  to be transformed. Time is hypnotic, a pretext for the creation of incredible timepieces. Miracle' Magic' For Cartier hours, time is much more than it seems, a mystery here, a fantasy there. The questions are in the surprise. Where is the mechanism' What is the trick that makes the hands go round' Where is time hidden' Is it a ring' A watch' The answer is in the question, hidden beyond the technical skill, the creative mastery, the desire to bring illusion and duality into the magnetic field of watchmaking.

    It all began in 1912, with the creation of the first mystery clocks,  “miracles of watchmaking”, the newspapers said, marvelling at clocks whose hands seemed to float in rock crystal, totally unrelated to the movement.  The story continues through two timepiece collections, from mystery to fantasy, allegories of an exquisite time when forms went into freestyle;  an unpredictable time when watches went from jewel to brooch;  a mysterious time when the tourbillon escapement in the Rotonde watch  was displayed in utter transparency, as though suspended weightless  on the face.

    It was a jewellery and watchmaking challenge involving such technical complexity and such a host of professions – 150 in all – that only the utmost expertise would do. From the goldsmith to the enamellist, the lapidary to the watchmaker and the engraver to the jeweller, a chain of craftsmen linked  by the kind of excellence that commands a tortoise whose gemstone shell shields the hours, or has a diamond-studded phoenix oscillate in rhythm  with the ticking of the watch. 

    Nothing seems impossible, like the inventiveness of imagining starstruck mystery clocks, two timepiece UFOs in obsidian or agate marquetry that renew the genre, refreshing the fascination for an enigmatic time to which Cartier holds the secret, as Jean Cocteau was inspired to say: “Cartier,  subtle magician that holds the pieces of a moon on the thread of a sun.”

    Les Heures Mystérieuses de Cartier
     
    For over a hundred years, Cartier has been mastering mystery. Over time, this watchmaking ideal has led to the creation of Clocks and watches that crystallise the power of enchantment. 
     
    This year, Cartier presents two new watchmaking complications that push the frontiers of the mysterious yet further, continuing the founding tradition of the Maison. Inspired by the concept of transparency and hidden complexity, the watchmakers of the Cartier Manufacture confronted the challenge of bringing enthusiasts two new creations with clean lines that seem to glorify time with incredible lightness. The first mysteriously displays the hour and minutes with two hands that seem to float magically in space. The second focuses the attention on a mysterious double tourbillon whose floating cage performs a delicate and spellbinding dance.

    Montre Rotonde de Cartier Double Mystery Tourbillon

    Imagine a watch equipped with a tourbillon that seems to be suspended in space. That was the challenge taken up by Cartier with its new movement, the 9454 MC Double Mystery Tourbillon  certified by the Geneva Seal. Slightly closer inspection will reveal the magic concealed in the mechanism. Indeed the flying tourbillon, which turns once on its own axis every 60 seconds, appears to be floating completely free in space, with no visible connection to any gear train. The illusion is complete when the same tourbillon cage starts to perform a second rotation at a rate of one turn every five minutes. This product of Cartier’s creative daring and watchmaking know-how, the Double Mystery Tourbillon, is the quintessence of over a century of mystery creations from the Maison.
     
    Magic transformed into science 

    In its simple elegance, which masks unbelievable complexity, the Rotonde de Cartier watch highlights a totally original mechanical construction named “Double Mystery”. The watchmakers of the Cartier Manufacture had to demonstrate boundless ingenuity in order for matter and movement to give birth to this fascinating kinetic sequence. When performing a conjuring trick, the magician has to distract the attention of his audience and convince them, by the illusion he produces, of the existence of preternatural forces. In the Rotonde Double Mystery Tourbillon, the design team took inspiration from the “tricks” of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, the father of modern magic, to create the illusion of levitation.
     
    Connoisseurs of watchmaking are aware that the mechanism of the tourbillon, in a vertical position, uses the rotation of the cage in a given time to shield the balance (the regulating organ) from the influence of the gravitational attraction of the Earth by smoothing out regularity errors (done by causing them to occupy every point on a circle in a given time). This fascinating device, set in the heart of the Rotonde Double Mystery Tourbillon, seems to defy the universal laws of gravity, giving the impression that it is floating unsupported in the void, and that its cage, rotating one turn in a minute and performing a complete rotation in its space in 5 minutes, has completely liberated itself from gravity.
     
    Hiding what should not be seen

    The watchmakers of the Cartier Manufacture have employed a disc of sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective finish containing an aperture the size of the tourbillon to give the best possible illusion of a cage in a state of levitation. To do this, they set the disc to support the cage in rotation. By doing this and positioning the minute wheel, which propels the oscillator, on the axis designed to limit the “resistance torque” inherent in the mechanism supporting the tourbillon, they succeeded in transmitting its force to the tourbillon, and thus causing the entire device to revolve in space once every 5 minutes. This results in the tourbillon making one full turn of the open, transparent space in 5 minutes, while the cage performs 5 complete revolutions in the same time... The ingenious way of achieving such a result is to place a rack
    around the edge of this sapphire crystal disc, transforming it into a large gear wheel that performs one revolution every 5 minutes. 

    Defying the laws of gravity 

    The 9454 MC Double Mystery Tourbillon movement is the result of long research. For example, numerous calculations were needed to determine the speed of rotation of the different moving parts. To optimise power consumption, the cage of the tourbillon performs one complete rotation in the space dedicated to it over 5 minutes – making it perform one turn per minute would have consumed 25 times as much energy. To improve the mechanical efficiency of this moving organ, the weight of its components had to be reduced to the minimum in order to limit the inertia of the rotating assembly comprising the disc and the titanium tourbillon cage. To compensate for the weight of the regulating organ and the “flying” cage, although the weight of the latter had been reduced to the absolute minimum (0.28 g), a circle segment designed to relieve the toothing has been positioned opposite the tourbillon to restore the equilibrium between the masses, with the effect of creating dynamic balance.

  • Brand  : Cartier
    Collection  : Fine Watchmaking Collection
    Model  : Rotonde de Cartier Double Tourbillon Mystérieux
    Reference  : W1556210
    Complement : Platinum - Aliigator Strap
    Year : 2013
    Is not commercialised any more
    List Price : 177 000 €
    Diameter : 45 mm
    Styles : Atypical
    High Horology
    Types : Hand-winding
    Calibre : 9454 MC
    Calibre distinction : Hallmark of Geneva
    Côtes de Genève
    Complication : Tourbillon
    Case material : Platinum
    Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback
    Beaded platinum crown set with a sapphire cabochon
    Shape : Round
    Water-resistance : 30 meters
    Dial : Open
    Engraved
    Dial color : Silver
    Slate
    Display : Blued steel Sword-shaped hands
    Indexes : Roman numerals
    Glass : Sapphire
    Strap material : Alligator leather
    Strap color : Black
    Strap clasp : Folding buckle
    More characteristics : Double Mystery Tourbillon

    Movement Manufacture mechanical with manual winding. calibre 9454 MC. certified Geneva Seal. double mystery tourbillon
    Casing-up diameter: 35 mm
    Total diameter: 35.5 mm
    Thickness: 5 mm  
    Number of jewels: 25
    Number of parts: 242
    Balance: 21.600 vibrations / hour
    Power reserve: 52 hours

    Dial slate-coloured. galvanised. guilloché. silvered open-work grill with sunray eect. black transferred Roman numerals

    Double adjustable folding buckle in 18-carat white gold