Cartier's Masse Mystérieuse Signals a Different Era of Watchmaking

There was one watch in Cartier's Watches & Wonders reveal that stood in stark contrast to its 2022 contemporaries and served as a reminder of just how clever and complicated the brand's watchmaking once was.While most of this year's watches focused on simple, elegant decoration the Masse Mystérieuse very clearly originated from a different era.Before Cartier's current CEO Cyrille Vigneron took over the reins in 2016, the brand's watchmaking looked very different thanks to a prolific output of i...