Posts Tagged ‘Tank Louis’
2917 Cartier CPCP Tank Louis Dual Time
It’s been at least two years since I’ve seen one of these surface in the market, but that ends today. If over the last few years anyone thought the increased interest in vintage Cartier was a fad, neo or true vintage, nothing could be further from the truth. We’ve seen Cartier and particularly the watchmaking-focused…
Read MoreCartier CPCP Tank Louis in Platinum
It’s quite a luxury Cartier enjoy to both be viewed as a design-first watchmaker and simultaneously preside over a handful of the most timeless cases ever penned. Rolex’s Sub, Patek Philippe’s Perpetual Calendar, and indeed Cartier’s Tank all take a different approach to marketing, one best explained by looking at its antithesis. Trilobe are bringing…
Read More78086 Cartier Paris Tank Louis Grande with Beads of Rice Bracelet
The feeling I got the first time I tried on a tailored suit in a fabric I’d picked out was not unlike losing virginity, there was a sense of total opportunity as if the world had just blossomed. This feeling, too, arose when I spent a week learning how wheel offset and sizing worked and…
Read MoreCartier CPCP Tank Louis in Platinum
Where exquisite design meets considered watchmaking, great things happen. This is perhaps no more evident than Cartier’s 1998 Paris Collection Privee (CPCP) era. The collection aimed to resurrect greats from their past like the Cintrée, Santos, Tortue, and Tank à Vis with masterful mechanical movements. It is often forgotten that their most enduring design of time, the Louis Cartier…
Read MorePre-CPCP ‘Extra Flat’ Cartier Tank Louis with Teardrop Bracelet
This svelte Tank Louis predates the CPCP era in which Cartier were a vertical manufacture . . .and it may just be all the better for it. One of the many joys of Cartier enthusiasm is the extreme depth in their back catalogue. The late 80s and early 90s saw Cartier make a return to…
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