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.
  • 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