ID One
Concept Watch
| Brand : | Cartier |
| Collection : | ID One |
| Model : | ID One |
| Reference : | Concept Watch |
| Complement : | Niobium-Titanium |
| Year : | 2012 |
| Is not commercialised any more | |
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Brand : Cartier Collection : ID One Model : ID One Reference : Concept Watch Complement : Niobium-Titanium Year : 2012 Is not commercialised any more List Price : On request Diameter : 46 mm Styles : High Horology Atypical Types : Self-winding Calibre distinction : Côtes de Genève Case material : Niobium-Titanium Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback Shape : Round Dial : Tinted sapphire crystal Dial color : Dark grey Display : Luminescent Sword-shaped hands Indexes : Roman numerals Glass : Sapphire Strap material : Fabric Strap color : Black Strap clasp : Adjustable folding buckle + More characteristics : Cartier manufacture mechanical movement with automatic winding. without adjusting
Diameter: 36.8mm (16 ½ lines)
Thickness: 6.12mm
17 jewels
177 pieces
Anchor and anchor wheel in carbon crystal. without jewel pallet-stones
Hairspring in Zérodur®*. without index assembly
Mono-bloc balance-wheel in carbon crystal
Frequency:
28’800 vibrations / hour
Double-barrel
52 hours power reserve
Main plate in brass coated with ADLC (Amorphous Diamond-Like Carbon) and decorated with Côtes de Genève
Oscillating weight in tungsten carbide coated with ADLC
Adjustable folding clasp in 18K white gold
*The Zérodur® hairspring is still being worked on
The brand Zérodur® does not belong to Cartier
DESCRIPTION
- ADJUSTING: A MAJOR KNOW-HOW IN MECHANICAL WATCHMAKING
Traditionally, a mechanical watch movement requires several adjusting operations done by a master watchmaker.
These adjusting operations are mandatory to ensure the good functioning of the watch.
As soon as the watchmaker starts assembling the watch, he needs to operate several adjustments:
- make the balance-wheel perfectly balanced, either with adjusting screws, either by removing matter on
the rim,
- adjust the hairspring with the balance-wheel by modulating its active length, most of the time using
an index assembly,
- ensure a good match between the escapement components (anchor and anchor wheel), by modifying the position of the adjusting pallet-stones on the anchor.
In some situations the movement might get misadjusted: in case of shocks or magnetisation, when there are strong thermal variations or when the oils get too old or dried. If this happens, the movement has to be re-adjusted.
CARTIER INTRODUCES A CONCEPT WATCH WITHOUT ADJUSTING !
For the first time, Cartier presents a watch without any adjusting: correctly manufactured and assembled from the beginning, it remains adjusted all throughout its lifetime.
Indeed, thanks to an innovative conception requesting breakthrough materials and technologies, this concept
watch does not need the usual adjusting components of mechanical movements:
- conceived as a mono-bloc piece and manufactured in carbon crystal (material allowing the use of a micron engraving technology), the balance-wheel is directly well balanced,
- calculated to obtain an optimum chronometry and manufactured in an innovative material called Zérodur®* (material allowing the use of a micron engraving technology), the active length of the hairspring is directly adapted to the balance-wheel,
- manufactured in carbon crystal, the anchor and the anchor wheel are perfectly matching at the time of assembly.
Moreover, this concept watch remains perfectly adjusted throughout its lifetime thanks to:
- a carbon crystal escapement cage mounted on silent-blocks (true shock-absorbers of the movement) which protect all the regulating components (hairspring, balance-wheel, anchor, anchor wheel, escapement axis),
- a manufacturing of all regulating components in materials insensitive to thermal variations and magnetic fields (balance-wheel, anchor and anchor wheel in carbon crystal, hairspring in Zérodur®*, axis in titanium),
- movement components with a very low friction coefficient. Indeed, they are either coated with ADLC, either manufactured in carbon crystal: this coating and this material do not need liquid lubrication (oil or grease).
This concept watch is not made to be commercialised.
*The Zérodur® hairspring is still being worked on.
The brand Zérodur® does not belong to Cartier.
- ADJUSTING: A MAJOR KNOW-HOW IN MECHANICAL WATCHMAKING
Traditionally, a mechanical watch movement requires several adjusting operations done by a master watchmaker.
These adjusting operations are mandatory to ensure the good functioning of the watch.
As soon as the watchmaker starts assembling the watch, he needs to operate several adjustments:
- make the balance-wheel perfectly balanced, either with adjusting screws, either by removing matter on
the rim,
- adjust the hairspring with the balance-wheel by modulating its active length, most of the time using
an index assembly,
- ensure a good match between the escapement components (anchor and anchor wheel), by modifying the position of the adjusting pallet-stones on the anchor.
In some situations the movement might get misadjusted: in case of shocks or magnetisation, when there are strong thermal variations or when the oils get too old or dried. If this happens, the movement has to be re-adjusted.
CARTIER INTRODUCES A CONCEPT WATCH WITHOUT ADJUSTING !
For the first time, Cartier presents a watch without any adjusting: correctly manufactured and assembled from the beginning, it remains adjusted all throughout its lifetime.
Indeed, thanks to an innovative conception requesting breakthrough materials and technologies, this concept
watch does not need the usual adjusting components of mechanical movements:
- conceived as a mono-bloc piece and manufactured in carbon crystal (material allowing the use of a micron engraving technology), the balance-wheel is directly well balanced,
- calculated to obtain an optimum chronometry and manufactured in an innovative material called Zérodur®* (material allowing the use of a micron engraving technology), the active length of the hairspring is directly adapted to the balance-wheel,
- manufactured in carbon crystal, the anchor and the anchor wheel are perfectly matching at the time of assembly.
Moreover, this concept watch remains perfectly adjusted throughout its lifetime thanks to:
- a carbon crystal escapement cage mounted on silent-blocks (true shock-absorbers of the movement) which protect all the regulating components (hairspring, balance-wheel, anchor, anchor wheel, escapement axis),
- a manufacturing of all regulating components in materials insensitive to thermal variations and magnetic fields (balance-wheel, anchor and anchor wheel in carbon crystal, hairspring in Zérodur®*, axis in titanium),
- movement components with a very low friction coefficient. Indeed, they are either coated with ADLC, either manufactured in carbon crystal: this coating and this material do not need liquid lubrication (oil or grease).
This concept watch is not made to be commercialised.
*The Zérodur® hairspring is still being worked on.
The brand Zérodur® does not belong to Cartier.
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Brand : Cartier Collection : ID One Model : ID One Reference : Concept Watch Complement : Niobium-Titanium Year : 2012 Is not commercialised any more List Price : On request Diameter : 46 mm Styles : High Horology Atypical Types : Self-winding Calibre distinction : Côtes de Genève Case material : Niobium-Titanium Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback Shape : Round Dial : Tinted sapphire crystal Dial color : Dark grey Display : Luminescent Sword-shaped hands Indexes : Roman numerals Glass : Sapphire Strap material : Fabric Strap color : Black Strap clasp : Adjustable folding buckle More characteristics : Cartier manufacture mechanical movement with automatic winding. without adjusting
Diameter: 36.8mm (16 ½ lines)
Thickness: 6.12mm
17 jewels
177 pieces
Anchor and anchor wheel in carbon crystal. without jewel pallet-stones
Hairspring in Zérodur®*. without index assembly
Mono-bloc balance-wheel in carbon crystal
Frequency:
28’800 vibrations / hour
Double-barrel
52 hours power reserve
Main plate in brass coated with ADLC (Amorphous Diamond-Like Carbon) and decorated with Côtes de Genève
Oscillating weight in tungsten carbide coated with ADLC
Adjustable folding clasp in 18K white gold
*The Zérodur® hairspring is still being worked on
The brand Zérodur® does not belong to Cartier