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Chapter two - article five

Watches and
Wonders 2025

In early April 2025, the Maison revealed its new timepieces at the Watches and Wonders Salon in Geneva—a dazzling edition dedicated to metamorphosis.

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The watches at
the 2025 edition

Like a magician, Cartier defies time and its appearances, drawing on the expertise and savoir-faire of the Maison’s artisans. True alchemists, they enhance materials and shapes to create or reinvent exceptional watches, making them precious objects.

Like a magician, Cartier defies time and its appearances, drawing on the expertise and savoir-faire of the Maison’s artisans. True alchemists, they enhance materials and shapes to create or reinvent exceptional watches, making them precious objects.

All the creations displayed represented the culmination of continuous evolution. This singular vision was reflected in the stand’s architecture, which invited visitors to explore the boundary between visible and invisible. Right from the entrance, suspended light installations dazzled on large reflective panels, creating the impression of an evolving metamorphosis. The space was made up of a succession of alcoves featuring display cases dedicated to each creation. Like true jewelry boxes, these cases combined light, texture, form, and movement to illustrate the creative power of metamorphosis.

A continuously projected film depicted the passage of time: the alternation between day and night, changes in the sky and in water as the hours pass, and the transformation of a growing tree - all symbols of evolution and the circle of life.

The Tank Louis Cartier Watch grows in size

Created in 1922, the Tank Louis Cartier is the heir to the original Tank. Today, Cartier has created a new-generation large-model version, equipped with the new Manufacture 1899 MC self-winding mechanical movement developed at the Cartier Manufacture.

Photo of the Tank Louis Cartier Watch

Panthère de Cartier watches: Jewelry transformations

With the Panthère watch, Cartier has created an abstract fur coat—not quite zebra nor tiger. Adorned with black and golden-brown lacquer motifs, pavé diamonds, and orange and yellow spessartites, this graphic composition celebrates a fusion of watchmaking and jewelry.

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Photo of the Panthère Jewelry watch

Panthère Jewelry watch: hybrid architecture

This yellow gold creation features a strikingly realistic panther with a streamlined body, black lacquer spots, and detailed ears, nose, and paw pads. With its tsavorite eyes and onyx nose, the feline plays on contrasts with its black lacquer dial, diamond-paved bezel and, at 12 o’clock, a diamond for the hour marker.

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Panthère de Cartier watches: Jewelry transformations

With the Panthère watch, Cartier has created an abstract fur coat—not quite zebra nor tiger. Adorned with black and golden-brown lacquer motifs, pavé diamonds, and orange and yellow spessartites, this graphic composition celebrates a fusion of watchmaking and jewelry.

The Cartier Privé Tank à Guichets

Born in 1928, the Tank à Guichets is Cartier Privé’s latest opus, featuring a digital time display. Faithful to the aesthetic of the original watch, this new version is equipped with a new caliber, the hand-wound 9755 MC movement.

Photo of the Cartier Privé Tank à Guichets

Fusing design, watchmaking technique, and expertise, the five star watches at this 2025 edition of Watches and Wonders were the work of true alchemists.

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