One Cartier Is Not Enough For Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise is on a world tour to promote his new movie Top Gun: Maverick This is great news for fans of the absurd action genre. It’s also great news for watch fans around the world. This week, Maverick gave us a great watch and then moved on with a lovely sequel.

The first watch was the historically significant Cartier, the Caliber. The caliber, launched in 2010, marked a new era for Cartier’s watchmaking program. While the brand has been in the wristwatch business for over 100 years, it hasn’t made its own moves for most of that time. (Watch enthusiasts are very interested in this sort of thing.) Caliber – named after another word for movement – ​​is Cartier’s announcement to the world that it is now making movements on its own. own movement. To demonstrate his newfound technical prowess, Cartier has created a number of products that stand out with tourbillons – a feature notoriously difficult to build – but it is the simpler chronographs that have survived. in. Tom Cruise is clearly a fan, and Two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic too. Cruise is famous for performing death-defying stunts himself, so it’s perhaps no surprise that he appreciates a watch that also takes pride in its own work.

For the next, Cruise wore another Cartier: the classic stainless steel Santos. This is a perfect combination of watch and advertising man for an aeronautics movie. The Santos was one of the world’s first wristwatches, invented at the behest of pilot Alberto Santos Dumont. Now, somehow, it captures better angles on Cruise’s wrist – and as you’ll see, the championship parade atop floats.

Steph Curry’s Cartier Santos

Two flavors of Santos this week: classic Cruise and the complete opposite of Curry’s. The newly minted Finals MVP wrist watch is a brand new version of the Cartier that debuted in March. This version of the Santos in navy blue and new horizontal stripes is a welcome addition. (The whole Curry family is delivering toys to the watch world factory this week: On the night the Warriors won the Finals, Curry’s father Dell wore a Rolex “Batman” GMT and his wife Ayesha one. Rolex Deepsea.)

Dwyane Wade Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Improvement Date-Day

Only a brave man can take off his mustard yellow mesh tank top like Wade did at Prada’s spring/summer 2023 runway show this week. The easier, if less affordable, thing to steal Wade’s look is his super vintage watch. Vacheron’s Patrimony is a prototype wristwatch, and Wade’s comes with an interesting oddity: a retrograde display. That’s the name given to this dial style, which (in this case) uses an arc to display the day and day of the week.

Jeffrey Wright’s Omega Seamaster Diver 300m 007 Edition

It turns out that Daniel Craig isn’t the only one to benefit from Omega’s partnership with the James Bond series. Wright, who played CIA agent Felix Leiter in the film, was seen wearing a Seamaster specially made for There’s no time to die. The watch is kissed with, but not drowned, nodding to Bond. The back has a serial number that reflects an actual military watch, the dial has the “Wide Arrow” seen on real life watches issued by the UK Ministry of Defense and it is made from lightweight titanium because ” we decided that a lightweight watch would be key for a military man like 007,” Craig said at the time of the watch’s release.

Andy Cohen’s Rolex Day-Date

When investing in a watch, the guidance of is required The most influential collector in the world. So when Andy Cohen was looking for his next watch, he hit John Mayer to help him with his search, he said on the singer. Instagram Program Current mood. Cohen later said on his own show See what happens live that the watch was a “great bargain”—but not a watch he regrets. It’s hard to regret this being a platinum Day-Date with a cold blue dial—a Rolex combination returned to much fanfare earlier this year.