* Swiss Made watch with Cartier Calibre 3110 Swiss-automatic movement; Functions without a battery; Powers automatically with the movement of your arms

* Solid barrel-shaped stainless steel case and triple-link polished stainless steel bracelet with brushed center links

With curving, contemporary lines and a distinctive face, the Cartier Men's Roadster Stainless Steel Automatic Watch is a sophisticated accessory. Its rhodium-plated silver sunray effect dial features Roman numeral indices, sword shaped hands crafted from black oxidized steel, luminescent accents, and a convenient date window at three o'clock. A tonneau case, stationary bezel, and bracelet band held in place by a deployment buckle--all precision crafted from stainless steel--and a scratch-resistant sapphire window help ensure the luxurious look and feel of this timepiece. This watch is water resistant to 330 feet.

The name Cartier is synonymous with luxury, quality, and style. Founded in Paris in 1847 by Louis-Francois Cartier, the company became renowned worldwide for its design and production of beautiful jewelry and opulent objets d'art. A royal commission in 1904 made Cartier a supplier to Europe's Crowned Heads of State and led England's King Edward VII to describe Louis Cartier, grandson of the founder, as the jeweler of Kings, the King among jewellers.

By the early 20th century, Cartier had expanded its collection to include watches. At a time when pocket watches were still considered de rigueur for the distinguished gentleman, Cartier helped popularize the wristwatch, making it a bold fashion statement for men and women as well as a status symbol among the well-to-do. Louis Cartier is credited with creating the first men's wristwatch, the Santos, in 1904. He developed and named the watch for his client and friend, the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who needed a device that would allow him to read the time without taking his hands off the controls of his airplane.

So I have been reading some negative reviews about this watch on-line and I want to set the record straight. First of all, the thing turns heads. It is simple, yet perfect. It's not so big (light those obnoxious Breitling watches with 6 knobs) that it feels uncomfortable or gaudy. If you are willing to pop down $5000 for a watch, this is the one for you. Although it scratches easily, the Cartier Roadster really is a timeless classic.

Development of the Timepiece Business
With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.

In developing its own wristwatches Casio began with the basic question, "What is a wristwatch?" Rather than simply making a digital version of the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio was able to create a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month — not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the first watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a conventional watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world’s first digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the conventional wristwatch.

Casio transformed the concept of the watch — from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist — and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as global time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio’s own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches developed into two unique Casio product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

Product Description
200M water resistant Multiband 5 atomic timekeeping Tough solar power Altimeter Barometer Digital compass Tide graph Moon age & moon phase graph Thermometer World time 31 cities Auto EL backlight 5 daily alarms Countdown/yacht timer 1/100 sec. stopwatch 12/24 hr. formats Power-saving function 50.6mm case Low temperature resistant