MTF[PuristS]
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Sometimes the Cartier technical explanations
Are heavy reading and my eyes glaze over until they refocus on the mystery watches again.
Then, the explanations become a mild drone in the background and the magic hapens.
There is no need to know how it happens.
Only to know that it happens.
I prefer the "simpler" Mysterious Hours version because there is nothing else whirling to distract from the floating hands.
Which do you like more?
Regards,
MTF
This message has been edited by MTF on 2014-01-07 01:17:55
Good luck with the mission
By: MTF : January 6th, 2014-20:36
Spellbound, Good luck with the book and quest for a mystery clock. A vintage clock will be a gazillion dollars even if available. A new one to order will be twice that amount! ;) The Rotonde de Cartier Mysterious Hours is a more likely target because they...
Perhaps it is magic
By: Spellbound : January 7th, 2014-00:01
Perhaps there is no movement at all. It is indeed a large "hole". Not to detract from Cartier for creating these almost affordable "mystery watches" but the hole in the Konstantin Chaykin Levitas watches, which were developed around the same time, are eve...
Amazed once again...
By: Hagen : January 6th, 2014-21:22
Always thinking that the mystery clock is magical, I am even more mystified that such a mechanism is fitted into a small watch case. And especially a Tourbillon in a 45mm case! So much information here, it needs to be read more than once. And I shall do s...
I try to use reference links
By: MTF : January 7th, 2014-12:35
Marcus, Thank you for kind comments. Thy are just compilations of reference material from various textbooks I have also collected during this watch hobby. As for my past series of articles, I now add a list of reference URL links to all postings within th...
That's a Cartier I love
By: Dje : January 7th, 2014-11:47
Hi MTF, That's a Cartier I love. If there's a watch I would have loved to have bought, that's a mysterious Cartier pocket watch made for the anniversary in 1997, seen 13 rue de la Paix (in the former boutique that I regret so much too). Best Dje