Khimji’s Watches unveils the Cartier’s Tortue for travellers
A timepiece created with travelling horlogerie connoisseurs in mind, the new Cartier Tortue multiple time zone watch is now available in the Sultanate of Oman exclusively at Khimji’s Watches. With its striking design and high legibility, the Tortue provides a large amount of time information and a level of ease of use that will greatly appeal to world travellers.
Combining the simple lines of its tortoise-shaped case, available in pink or white gold and a version set with diamonds, the Tortue multiple time zone watch is an imposing timepiece that discreetly shows its interesting sophistication. The Tortue has a dial incorporating a mobile disc carrying the names of major cities which each represent a time zone. In order to lighten the design of the watch’s face, Cartier chose to have these names appear in a window cut into the side of the watch’s case middle.
To avoid the need for mental gymnastics, the time at the current location is clearly displayed by the principal hands while the time at the journey’s starting point is indicated in a semi-circular aperture in the lower half of the dial centre by a day/night hand incorporating symbols for the sun and moon. This ingenious mechanism, allows the wearer to see the time, displayed in 24-hour mode, in cities corresponding to the 24 most commonly used time zones.
Set up in 1973, Khimji’s Watches offers a range of global designs from Rolex, Cartier, Chopard, Piaget, Mikimoto, Girard Perregaux, Tudor, Oris, Frederique Constant, Bells & Ross, and Caran D’ache. Khimji’s Watches also has an exclusive Rolex standard Service Centre that offers aftercare services for all its premium watch brands. The Khimji’s Watches showroom is located at Way No. 3036, Building No. 2825, Al Ufouq Building, Shatti Al Qurum, Muscat.
