Reviews Of The Pasha de Cartier Skeleton Flying Tourbillon In White Gold
With the hand-wound Pasha de Cartier Skeleton Flying Tourbillon (ref. W3030021) replica watch that is offered in a precious 18-karat white gold case, Cartier keeps exploring the exciting world of skeletonized timepieces.
Instead, the movement bridges were extensively skeletonized to form stylized Roman numerals and hour markers. Although bulky and not very legible, they nevertheless offered its owners an interesting display that certainly drew a lot of envious glances.
The moevement
The watch is powered by the new Caliber 9457 MC hand-wound movement that looks like a close relative of the engine employed in the last year’s Rotonde de Cartier mentioned above. The movement’s bridges are skeletonized in such a way as to represent three huge Arabic numerals that were further engraved and blackened out for better contrast. The square chapter “ring” is also an integral part of the movement, as is the carriage of the flying tourbillon escapement that, traditionally, features a stylized letter “C.”
The dial
Although skeletonized dials tend to look like a complete mess, this one looks like a study in legibility. Or, at least, like a study in the legibility of open-worked, see-through dials with a tiny mechanism placed in their center. Mainly, thanks to the pair of diamond-shaped hour and minute hands done in blued steel, but also in the way the thick “beams” of the contraption are decorated with heavy machine-brushing and with the minute track not simply painted, but actually engraved and blacked-out in order to achieve the most contrasting appearance.
Frankly, I don’t care much how my skin is visible through all those openings in the dial (it seems to be machined out of a solid pluck of white gold) and the way the W3030021’s back looks almost like an afterthought, but that’s my personal opinion, so you can either deal with it or (preferably) disregard it as an inevitable rant.
Although I usually do not like watches with cabochons in their crowns, the sapphire in this particular timekeeper does its job with proud, visually supporting the deep-blue hands.
The Pasha de Cartier Skeleton Flying Tourbillon replica is going to be sold as a special edition model limited to just a hundred numbered copies.
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