


My 5500euro could do way better for me than this. This one ticks all the boxes for divers features, but Cartier don't have any diving heritage so the watch stirs very little emotion in me. It's pleasing to see any Manufacture producing a high-end diver with an in-house caliber. Prices start from 5500euro for the steel version with a rubber strap. It comes on either a black rubber divers strap or with a steel bracelet. The watch is powered by a Cartier in-house automatic 1904-PS MC caliber with 27 jewels and a power reserve of 48 hours. There's a large date aperture at 3 o'clock and a sub-dial at 6. The dial has been designed for excellent legibility in the dark and as such has been generously applied with Swiss SuperLuminova on its sword hands and Roman numeral hour markers. At 111 grams, it’s also light, but as we’ll see, it’s no lightweight. When designing the watch, Cartier prioritized a svelte profile. The case is fitted with a separate crown guard attached as the lugs are with flat head screws. At 10.92 mm thick in our calipers (and 11 mm officially), the Calibre Diver is slim. The main watch case, which is in Stainless steel measures 42mm in diameter with a thickness of just 11mm, not bad considering its water-resistance. Although the watch has Cartier's unmistakable character it takes itself pretty seriously as a diver, and so complies with ISO 6425 for a divers watch.ĭivers features include: a DLC coated 120-click type unidirectional rotational divers bezel with a luminous dive-time scale, a faceted screwdown crown set with Cartier's signature blue spinel and a water-resistant to 300 meters or 1000 feet. By TLex Here's a preview of the new Calibre de Cartier Diver from Cartier, due for its official release at SIHH 2014.
