If we were to be archaic about categorising watches, the new Cartier Masse Mystérieuse would not qualify as a complication. For far too long, we (and that includes yours truly) have been conditioned to define a complication as a watch that does something more than tell the time. It could be a minor complication such as a date display or something more technically extravagant like a tourbillon or minute repeater. While the Cartier Masse Mystérieuse tells only the time, even to the most untrained eye, you’d know at first glance that this is no ordinary watch.
In fact, given the level of mechanical sophistication, creativity, and technical know-how required for its conception and construction of the Cartier Masse Mystérieuse, we’d even venture to proclaim that this is a bona fide complication.…
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CROWN (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 2 2022