1930s Perfect Replica Cartier Roulette Pocket Watches

Cartier occupies a unique position in the watch world. Unlike most watch manufacturers, Cartier isn’t fundamentally a watch brand at all—or at least, it certainly wasn’t one during the vintage era. Cartier’s core business is and always has been jewelry. This distinction, far from being a critique, is actually the source of its innovative approach to watchmaking. In an interview about the creation of the Tank, I’ll never forget Pierre Rainero—the image, style, and heritage director at Cartier—describing how “the jeweler’s perspective” allowed Louis Cartier to rethink how a watch sits on the wrist. Without the expertise in making and designing round pocket best fake watches, Louis Cartier created the rectangular Tank.

Using the same jeweler’s perspective, Cartier has created some fascinating objects with a watch attached throughout its history. Money clips, cigarette cases, letter openers, and pencils can all be found stamped Cartier with a clock integrated into the design. Here, we have a “pocket gambler” watch featuring a ball-bearing-driven roulette wheel on the outside and gorgeous high quality replica Cartier watches on the inside.

While shopping online, I’ve seen a few of these roulette 1:1 wholesale copy watches, which always stick out to me. Some other brands offered similar pieces. Jaeger-LeCoultre, the brand that probably made the movement inside this Cartier, sold some under its own brand name. It’s seen these also branded as Abercrombie & Fitch and Longines. But what’s interesting is that the Cartier examples always appear to be earlier. This one has an engraving on the edge dating it to 1938. Most of those from the other brands seem to be made more towards the 1940s and 50s.

The condition here isn’t the best, to be honest. The case shows heavy wear, but the dial is quite clean, and I love the design. But with something like this, I can’t be too much of the Swiss made replica watches condition queen. It’s a fun and rare thing; it doesn’t have to be mint.

This top super clone Cartier pocket gambler watches are lot 181 of the upcoming sale at Chorley’s Auctioneers (Cotswolds Heritage since 1862) on Tuesday, March 25th, at 10:00 GMT.