Cartier Captive Watch Collection Hands-On

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Jan 30th 2010 at 4:02PM

It is true that most of the watches I played with at SIHH 2010 were men's watches, but a few stunning women's watches did not evade my grasp. New from Cartier, here are some of their Captive collection watches. The timepieces come in at least two sizes. One is 35mm wide and the largest is about 52mm wide! Wow. One of the images in the gallery below is of it on my wrist just to show you how large it is. The collection comes in either white or rose gold and with various amount of diamonds (full pave anyone?).

To me the chain link style of the watch was a bit kinky. Cartier didn't see this, but couldn't disagree that this might be an additional attraction point to the watch. They see it as "captivating her," I see it as "a really good way to keep her captive." Your own interpretation is welcome. The smaller version makes with just one blued steel hand (for the hours - you can tell the time to withing about 10 minute precision), while the larger version as two hands. The watch faces themselves are small of course in comparison to the rest of the watches. All in all the collection is pretty nice and unique for Cartier. See a bit more detail in a previous article on the Captive collection here. Prices are about $22,100-$96,500.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Gallery: Cartier Captive watches