Given that only the very latest ultra-thin movements are capable of Replica Cartier de watches stretching power reserve, this older (but proven) 430P/430MC caliber offers a shorter 38-hour power reserve matched to a slower 21,600bph operating frequency. In practice, that means you’ll want to be winding this beauty every single day — a gratifying chore, to be sure.
If you want to save at least a few thousand dollars — if neither winding your watches nor hiring a Watch Butler is a possibility for you — then you’ll be happy to learn that Cartier offers the Santos-Dumont in the “large” size with a quartz movement and six years of autonomy. Introduced last year, these “large” Santos-Dumont pieces have case dimensions of 43.5mm by 31.4mm and a thickness of 7.3mm.
Getting back to the The Cartier Santos-Dumont XL Hand-Wind collection, my only small gripe with these, as a watch-lover, is the fact that the crown is your only interaction and your only indicator of the presence of a hand-wound movement… To be fair, there’s also “mécanique” written in small fonts on the caseback. A running seconds would be as much a sacrilege as a date window on this design, but an open caseback, even with just a small aperture somewhere, revealing the bridges covered with the Cartier “C” all over, would have been a nice little touch. A running seconds window or power reserve on the back really would have been next level — but also Replica Cartier watches likely would’ve entailed an increase in price. Cartier doesn’t appear to provide caseback images, so you’ll have to use your imagination to picture a solid caseback with some text on it