Cartier Crash

27 May 2024

📌The Cartier Crash is probably the most coveted model on the market at the moment. Why? The answer is simple: inaccessibility, cool design, and stellar hype😎

There are several romanticized versions of the creation of this iconic watch-from inspiration from Salvador Dali's paintings with the "floating clock" to the Baignoire model deformed in a car accident. Francesca Cartier Brickell, the great-granddaughter of Jean-Jacques Cartier, The Creator of Crash, gives a different version in his book The Cartiers: Jean-Jacques thought about how to adapt The Oval (one of the most popular classic Cartier Watches of the time) for the rebellious era of the 60s. Jean-Jacques said that he "gave a lot of headaches" to his chief watchmaker, and in 1967 Cartier Crash was born.

In the first series of Crash London (before 1970), less than 20 copies were produced, and that is why they broke records for sales at auctions - in 2022, such watches were sold for 1.5 million USD🤯

Era Cartier releases Crash exclusively in limited editions: London Crash in the 1980s, Paris Crash in platinum in the early 1990s, 400 copies from Cartier Paris in 1991, and 5 limited editions since 2013. Any of these limits was almost impossible to buy in retail.

Collectors have always been partial to this model, but a few years ago a crazy rush began - Jay-Z, Kanye West, Tayler the Creator, and Kris Jenner appeared in Crash one after another, and many more stars followed them.

The already high prices of the secondary market have skyrocketed, and the hype around Crash does not end. At the moment, the investment potential of this watch is considered one of the highest on the market

INTERNATIONAL GUARANTEE FOR WATCHES. WHAT IS THIS AND HOW IT WORKS.

Everyone in his life at least once bought a watch or thought about buying them. Of course, when buying cheap accessories, we rarely worry about how long they will work, and quite another thing, when it is an expensive product, worth several thousand and sometimes several tens of thousands. In this case, the important issue is the warranty. In this article, we will talk about what an international guarantee is and what it represents.

QUARTZ OR MECHANICAL WATCHES. PLUSES AND MINUSES MECHANISMS.

Often when choosing a watch from a customer, the question arises - “Which watch is better? Quartz or mechanical? ”To give a reasonable answer you should first understand what these mechanisms are, and what are the pros and cons of their work.

Why 10:10?

The hands of any advertised watch always strike the same time - 10:10. There are a lot of versions and most of them are grounded and reasonable. According to the most popular version, the clock hands at this position remind

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