Cartier Ballon Bleu Automatic 42mm Luxury Watch Reviews

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! The Ballon Bleu de Cartier is the breadwinner for the juggernaut Richemont Group's number-one moneymaker. And luxury watches like this Cartier Ballon Bleu Automatic are the reason. At 42mm in polished stainless steel, this feels like the watch Louis Cartier would have designed had he lived in the post-Y2K world. Consider the magnitude of the Ballon Bleu's success; no branch of the Richemont Swiss luxury conglomerate - the second largest in the world - thrills more customers than Cartier, and no Cartier watch is more coveted than the Ballon Bleu. Since its 2006 launch, the Cartier Ballon Bleu has defined "lighting in a bottle" throughout the watch industry. Particularly scintillating (and galling from the perspective of envious Swatch and Rolex execs) has been the Ballon Bleu's performance on the now paramount Hong Kong/Chinese market. More than a successful watch, the Cartier Ballon Bleu has become a full-featured line of diverse sizes, materials, and complications. At 42mm in versatile polished steel, the Cartier Ballon Bleu Automatic boasts immense presence on the wrist. From a visual standpoint, few dress watches pack a comparable impact without resorting to gimmicks or faddish hooks. The Ballon Bleu pulls off an aesthetic coup simply by balancing the interplay of its many compound curves, the all-of-a-piece flow from case to bezel to sapphire, and the minimal lugs that enable the watch to assume the appearance of an organic silver exten