Tank MC 34.3 Stainless Steel / Silver

In Context

At 34.3 mm it is classically proportioned: the size a dress watch was understood to be for most of the twentieth century, and small enough to sit under a cuff. At 9.5 mm thick it is about average for a modern wristwatch. The case back is open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. Rated to 30 m, it is protected against rain and splashes and nothing beyond that.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 48 hours of reserve is enough to set it down on Friday evening and find it still running on Monday. At 28,800 vph the seconds hand advances 8 times a second.

W5330003 has a stainless steel case of 34.3 * 44 mm. It is powered by the self-winding, in-house caliber 1904-PS, which can be admired through the sapphire crystal case back. The dial is silver. is one of 2 executions of the W5330003 base reference. Underneath they are the same watch; what separates this one is a silver guilloche dial and a stainless steel case. Introduced in 2013.

The 1904-PS MC is Cartier's first in-house automatic movement, introduced in the Calibre de Cartier of 2010, with a small seconds and a date. It powers 40 watches in this library. The name records the date Louis Cartier made the Santos, 1904, and the initials read "petite seconde" and "Manufacture Cartier". The movement has twin barrels for a 48-hour reserve and a steady rate, a bidirectional winding system, a stop-seconds function and a quick-set date, and it beats at 28,800 vph with 27 jewels at 25.6 mm across. It was the movement that moved Cartier from supplied calibers to its own for the core of the men's range, and the 1904-CH MC chronograph followed it. In the library it sits under 29 [Calibre de Cartier](/brands/cartier/calibre-de-cartier) references, the 42 mm original and the Diver, 6 [Tank](/brands/cartier/tank) MC references, whose 34.3 mm width is the rectangular case around the same round movement, 4 [Drive de Cartier](/brands/cartier/drive-de-cartier) references and one Ronde. The 42 mm case accounts for 24 references. The [Tank](/brands/cartier/tank) and [Ballon Bleu](/brands/cartier/ballon-blue-de-cartier) are the collections that carry Cartier's other movements.

39 other watches in the library run the Cartier 1904-PS MC.

Cartier

Calibre de Cartier 38 Pink Gold / Silver / Full Diamond

WF100015 · 38 mm

Cartier

Tank MC 34.3 Pink Gold / Grey

WGTA0014 · 34.3 mm

Cartier

Tank MC 34.3 Stainless Steel / Blue

WSTA0010 · 34.3 mm

Cartier

Calibre de Cartier Diver Pink Gold / Blue

WGCA0010 · 42 mm