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They manage, we think, to combine a sense of very Cartier-esque refinement with a certain go-anywhere aura of practicality as well. The Cruise Collection of men’s watches number three at the moment – they are part of the Ronde de Cartier family of round watches. For such gentlemen and ladies, the first Cruise Collections were made – apparel casual enough, comfortable enough, and durable enough to withstand a day spent, perhaps, disporting oneself on a yacht, but stylish enough for an early evening’s cocktails-and-canapes on the veranda. Ian Fleming, the ex-spy turned novelist who gave us the adventures of a parvenu arriviste Scottish sociopath named James Bond, liked to spend his Januaries and Februaries at the Jamaica estate called Goldeneye and he and cosmopolites of his era were part of a tradition, dating back to the '20s and the first great steamship era and still with us today, of the Quality getting out of Dodge when the weather gets dodgy. In the style world, a cruise collection (the word “croisiere” is French for “cruise”) is also sometimes known as a resort collection and the idea here is that a lot of folks don’t just head to the beach during the dog days of August – historically, folks with the means to do so often made a point of heading south for the winter, or at least for a few weeks during the winter, to enjoy the sun and social scene at places like – oh, as varied as the Côte d’Azur, or the Isle of Capri, or the Caribbean. Well, to understand the timing, you have to know what a cruise collection is.

Cartier calibre 1847 mc cartier croisiere