Cartier
Calibre de Cartier 42 Black Dial
W7100016
Cartier's in-house ambition dressed in 42 mm of polished steel.
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Overview
The Calibre de Cartier 42 in stainless steel with a black dial represents the house's early-2010s commitment to serious in-house watchmaking within an accessible, wearable format. Its 42 mm case strikes a balance between contemporary proportions and the refined vocabulary Cartier has long applied to dress watches. The oversized Roman XII and characteristic sword-shaped hands anchor the dial firmly in the Cartier tradition.
History
The Calibre de Cartier line was introduced around 2010 as Cartier's statement that it could compete on movement manufacture, not merely on design heritage. Reference W7100016 pairs the stainless steel case with a black dial and the Calibre 1904-PS MC, an in-house automatic movement developed entirely within the Cartier manufacture. The line ran through the mid-to-late 2010s before Cartier consolidated its sports and dress offerings, making well-preserved examples of this reference a coherent snapshot of that manufacturing era.
Notable points
- Powered by the Calibre 1904-PS MC, an in-house automatic movement developed and produced at the Cartier manufacture.
- The 42 mm stainless steel case was sized to suit contemporary tastes while retaining the cushion-influenced form associated with the Calibre line.
- An oversized Roman numeral XII anchors the black dial, a signature compositional device Cartier carried across the Calibre family.
- Sword-shaped blued-steel hands provide strong legibility against the dark dial and reinforce the dress-watch character of the piece.
- Production spanned roughly 2010 to 2018, placing W7100016 squarely within Cartier's first sustained push into in-house movement manufacture.
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