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Old 30 April 2022, 05:58 AM   #1
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Cartier Ronde Louis Cartier, reference W6801005

My review is of the Cartier Ronde Louis Cartier, reference W6801005. It is still in their current catalog at $14,400 with a tang buckle. I purchased the proper Cartier deployant and a Camille Fournet matt black alligator strap. The tang and deployant take different straps.

The case is rose gold, forty millimeters in diameter and just over nine millimeters in thickness, with a dark blue cabochon on a grained crown. Cartier’s higher end watches have the dark blue sapphire, as opposed to the lighter and brighter blue synthetic cabochon. The lugs tapper down to make it wear more like a thirty-eight or thirty-nine millimeter watch.

The dial is silver-white with a guilloche grained dial, date aperture, sub-dial seconds and steel blued hands. The combination of the railroad dial and roman numerals make the dial quite legible. The movement is an automatic 1904-PS MC Cartier movement which is four millimeters thick, beats at 28.800 vph, with a forty-eight-hour power reserve.

To me this is the perfect combination in a round dress watch, with 18kt rose gold, the safety of a deployant on the highest quality strap, and a not too small or too big case at forty millimeters.
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Old 5 May 2022, 03:31 AM   #2
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This is a beautiful watch. Nice write up. What else is in your collection?
What made you choose this?

It’s been on my radar for some time. I just need to pull the trigger. I also wanted to put it on a black strap
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That is a beautiful watch! Thanks for the write up.
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I have a Cartier Louis Cartier Tank XL in rose gold, a YG 228238 DD 40 with white romans, a rare green dial YG 116718 GMT II and a TT Daytona white dial 116503.

I had a 38mm 5296r Calatrava, but sold it. The cream dial and white date aperture never clicked with me. A lot of people frown on Cartier as a jeweler, but their high end watches have the finishing and dials that compete, in my opinion, with the top watch brands.
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