Cartier introduced a new collection of Tank Must watches in 2021. Here's what you should know about how the Tank Watch came to be—everything from the famous faces who have worn them, to how the ...
Cartier is the master of the remaster. Its most iconic collections were created anywhere from 1907 to 2007, and Cartier has continuously evolved them to keep them relevant. The secret to this strategy ...
Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like "tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...
Cartier has an enchanting new cuff. After 3,000 hours of development, last month the company debuted its latest wonder: An openwork bangle with a watch embedded in one end and reflected on the other’s ...
Some will say this is a headline that’s been coming, many more will step into the story without knowing what to expect. At Watches And Wonders, the watch fair taking place – via the web – in Geneva ...
It is surprising how many fine watch and jewellery icons are inspired by basic, utilitarian items: the Cartier Clou, modelled on a humble nail; the Tiffany Keys range, inspired by vintage door keys; ...
The return of Cartier’s Tank Asymétrique is just one symptom of a horological renaissance chez Cartier. For much of this century, Cartier dabbled in complicated, experimental watchmaking, rather ...
We should all be so lucky to age as well as the Cartier Tank. Created by Louis Cartier in 1917, the Tank has been a go-to timepiece for a century’s worth of style icons, from Steve McQueen and Andy ...
Fittingly for a watch owned by Andy Warhol—who famously never wound his, explaining that he didn’t wear it to tell the time, but “because it is the watch to wear”—the Cartier Tank continues to outlive ...
Cartier’s Tank watch collection, designed in 1917 to be unisex and gender neutral, is turning 100 this year. The Tank has graced the wrists of some remarkable people during its first century, from ...
It is now axiomatic that the design of the watch was influenced by the plan (or top) view of the first Tanks, which were rhomboid shaped with their tracks running all around the body. Much less known ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The vintage watch market has long been dominated by the dial names of Rolex and Patek Philippe – a situation ...