Cartier Crash Squelette Watch

The Cartier Crash was born in Swinging London in 1967, when Jean-Jacques Cartier and designer Rupert Emmerson pinched the oval Baignoire Allongée case into an asymmetrical, distorted form unlike anything the Maison had ever produced. Fewer than a dozen originals were made. Now it returns at Watches & Wonders in a fully skeletonized version, one of three platinum watches in the 10th Cartier Privé Opus collection, alongside the Tank Normale and the Tortue Chronographe Monopoussoir. The Crash's 950 platinum case measures 45.34mm long, 25.18mm wide, and 12.97mm thick, and the new in-house Manufacture 1967 MC movement has been specifically shaped to follow the case's impossible contours, its 142 components arranged around the asymmetry rather than in spite of it. Skeletonized bridges double as Roman numerals along the wider left side of the dial, and the hand-hammered finishing takes around two hours of work per movement. A ruby cabochon sits in the crown, and the watch ships on a semi-matte burgundy alligator strap. Limited to just 150 numbered pieces.

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