Posts Tagged ‘Tank Cintrée’
Special Order Eastern Arabic Cartier Tank Cintrée
Everyone wants to feel special. But when Cartier agree to make you dial to your specification, you actually are, by definition. We all aspire to be VVIPs of Cartier, that’s the simple truth. But the kind of buying history that requires is enough to make an oil Sheikh gasp. So instead, why not shortcut the…
Read More1970s Cartier Paris Tank Cintrée Grande
The Cintrée (French for curved) case could arguably be called the first ergonomic wristwatch, curved to adopt the wrist rather than built around a movement and given lugs. That’s fairly substantial historically. The last time I wrote about one, I compared it to the Herman Miller chair I now own and love, both just feel…
Read MoreChinese Dial Cartier CPCP Tank Cintrée Dual Time
China has 160 cities with over a million people. Their intense public transport spending has meant the entire country is connected by high speed rail, cars are not needed. China is producing everything for everyone, everywhere. The more mathematically minded, on the spectrum-types are working extremely hard (perhaps at gunpoint?) to not just compete with…
Read MoreCartier Tank Cintrée 100th Anniversary
Last week, I had to buy a new desk chair. This is a thrilling start, I know. But in the modern age that proved to be mind-bogglingly complex task. There were chairs that looked like they should be on the starship Enterprise or chairs that looked like they should be in a Victorian interrogation cell.…
Read More1970s Cartier Paris Tank Cintrée with Bracelet
The Tank Cintrée has been around since 1921, very shortly after the first 1919 Tank. It was adopted by British soldiers in the Boer War for its relatively masculine proportion and the fact that it wasn’t a pocket watch. Post war, those same credentials propelled it to be the ultimate aesthetic pairing for timeless style;…
Read More1 of 100 Cartier Tank Cintrée in PT
The Tank Cintreé has been around since 1921, very shortly after the first 1919 Tank. It was adopted by British soldiers in the Boer War for its relatively masculine proportion and the fact that it wasn’t a pocket watch. Post war, those same credentials propelled it to be the ultimate aesthetic pairing for timeless style;…
Read MoreAsian Market Cartier CPCP Tank Cintrée Dual Time
Very few watches have the privilege of contributing toward wider culture. One could fairly say the Submariner expanded the purview of tool watches as a category, transcending purpose for luxury. The G-Shock married indestructible construction to creative design, capturing rappers and armed forces simultaneously in admiration. Before either, though, Jacqueline Kennedy wore a Tank. In…
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