One of the last things I was expecting from Cartier for 2014 was a dive watch, and now that we have one I can barely imagine not wanting it. That is how the peculiar "desire engine" of the watch industry works. As mixed up and backwards as the industry may be, it still has the power to create items that I suddenly desire which I would have never thought appealing until they were brought to my attention. I am not even sure that a dive watch from the famously elegant and classy Parisian brand makes sense on paper, but now that one exists I sort of really want it. Yes, there are Cartier "sport" watches... but a legit diver, water resistant to 300 meters that you can still wear with a tie and be taken seriously by Europeans taste makers? I didn't think it possible but the Calibre Diver is it.
We debuted the Cartier Calibre Diver here back before we got a hands-on look at it at the SIHH 2014 watch show. The Calibre has been one of our favorite men's pieces from Cartier and we've known that it was to serve as a foundation for a range of new models. While I sort of expected that 2014 was going to bring us a Calibre GMT, it rather gave us a diving version of the original. To be honest not that much is different from the standard three-hand Cartier compared to the Diver. Sure the diver has a rotating diver's bezel and a slightly bolder dial, but aside from the rubber strap and deeper water resistance this is the same classy men's watch I've come to really enjoy.
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