Best Of Two: Cartier Dress Watches | MR PORTER

For this episode of About Time, we explore what exactly we want from a dress watch, and why Cartier is so good – perhaps uniquely so – at providing it. Through a side-by-side look at the Ballon Bleu de Cartier and the Santos-Dumont, we see how the careful mastery of shape, size, proportion and detail yields a watch that is both showy and restrained, whether that’s the curved sophistication of the Ballon Bleu or the geometric harmony of the Santos-Dumont. By bringing these particular two watches together, we show how it’s possible to answer the dress-watch brief in quite different ways; despite the inherent formality of the concept, today’s elegant timepieces don’t have to stay in the box until you have a black-tie function to attend – they lend themselves to dressing down, too.

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