Santos de W2020018 replica

Since its creation, Cartier has made classic and unique watches for fans of fine watches thanks to its excellent mechanical skills. The new Rotonde de Cartier Annual Calendar reflects this dedication. Efficient and stylish, it shows the perfect blend of tradition and modernity found only in a top manufacturer.

Less than 15 years after its successful launch, the annual calendar has become a new star in watchmaking, quickly establishing itself as a key date display for everyday watches. In fact, the annual calendar is easy to use and doesn’t need exact adjustment, though Cartier watches didn’t have an annual calendar function before. The Cartier Manufacture movement development team has added it to the Rotonde de Cartier to meet enthusiasts’ needs for accurate and complete calendar information all year round.

The basic calendar, a mechanism that shows the date through a window or hands, needs to be manually adjusted at the end of a 30-day month (bi-month) to stay in sync with the calendar. However, this simple fix is often missed, leading to small errors that need to be corrected manually each month.

Manually turning the winding crown, skipping the 31st day and showing the 1st day directly, is a tough job for the machine and also very tedious. That’s why, during the Enlightenment, when the perpetual calendar watch was introduced, the dial showed the date directly as long as the watch stayed functional, without needing adjustments. While this model with strong memory features is fascinating, it can still be a problem if it stops working for a long time. In such sophisticated watches, readjusting the date requires several steps, and sometimes the watch owner needs to get help from a professional.