Cartier has revived the Roadster, the tonneau-cased sports watch it introduced in 2001 and quietly retired in 2012. The return came at Watches and Wonders 2026, per show coverage from Teddy Baldassarre’s editorial team, and it lands in a catalog that has spent the past several years profitably mining Cartier’s own design archive.
The original Roadster, with its curved case and grille-style bracelet inspired by mid-century automobiles, became one of the defining Cartier men’s watches of the 2000s. Its revival follows the same logic that brought back other shaped Cartier designs: the brand’s design archive keeps proving more commercially reliable than new invention. Full specifications and pricing for the new generation will go into the INDICES database once confirmed against official Cartier documentation.