Cartier
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Cartier Baignoire Guide: Specs, References, Prices | Ultimate Watch
The Cartier Baignoire is the oval watch that refuses to apologize for not being round. The name is French for bathtub, and once you see the elongated stadium-shaped case with its softly rounded ends, …
Cartier Ballon Bleu: The Best-Selling Cartier You Should Be Buying Pre-Owned
The Ballon Bleu de Cartier is Cartier's best-selling watch: period. Launched in 2007, it broke every rule Cartier had established over a century of rectangular and angular watchmaking. The name means …
Cartier Crash: History, References, Prices and Buying Guide | Ultimate Watch
The Cartier Crash is the strangest watch the house has ever built and, dollar for dollar, one of the most valuable. Born in Cartier's London workshop in 1967, it looks like a Tank that spent an aftern…
Cartier Panthère: The Power Watch That Defined an Era
The Panthère de Cartier is the watch that defined power dressing. Launched in 1983 at the peak of Wall Street excess and shoulder-pad ambition, its integrated bracelet moved like the animal it was nam…
Cartier Pasha: The Genta-Designed Legend with the Chained Crown
The Pasha de Cartier is the watch that was born from a legend and designed by a genius. The legend: Thami El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech (a powerful, ruthless, and impossibly wealthy Moroccan ruler…
Cartier Privé Collection Guide: References, Specs, Prices | Ultimate Watch
Cartier Privé is not one watch. It is the Maison's annual love letter to its own back catalog, a limited series that resurrects a single shaped case from Cartier's history each year and rebuilds it wi…
Roadster
Cartier Roadster
The Cartier Roadster is the sports watch that the world forgot, and collectors are now racing to rediscover. Produced from 2001 to 2012, this tonneau-cased automotive-inspired timepiece drew its desig…
Ronde
Cartier Ronde Solo / Ronde de Cartier
The Cartier Ronde Solo is the most accessible point of entry into Cartier's watch world, and it delivers far more than its price tag suggests. With a traditional round case, signature Roman numeral di…
Cartier Ronde Solo, Drive & Roadster: Three Models You're Sleeping On
Not every Cartier needs its own encyclopedia entry, but every Cartier deserves respect. This article covers three models that represent different facets of Cartier's range: the Ronde Solo (the gateway…
Cartier Santos Galbee: Reference Guide, Specs, and Value | Ultimate Watch
The Cartier Santos Galbee is the watch that took the squarest icon in the business and softened it enough to live on a wrist all day. In 1987 Cartier reworked the Santos into a curved, sculpted case (…
Cartier Santos-Dumont: History, References, Specs and Prices | Ultimate Watch
The Cartier Santos-Dumont is the closest thing the modern catalog has to the watch that started wristwatches for men. Louis Cartier built the original in 1904 for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont, the…
Cartier Santos: The Watch That Invented the Wristwatch
The Cartier Santos is the watch that invented the wristwatch as we know it. In 1904, Louis Cartier designed it for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviator who couldn't check a pocket wat…
Cartier Tank Cintrée: Specs, References, History and Value | Ultimate Watch
The Tank Cintrée is the long, curved Tank, the one that lies down the length of your wrist instead of sitting square on top of it. Cartier introduced it in 1921, four years after Louis Cartier drew th…
Cartier Tank Française: Full Reference Guide, Specs & Prices | Ultimate Watch
The Cartier Tank Française is the Tank you actually wear on a bracelet. Louis Cartier drew the first Tank in 1917 off the top-down silhouette of a Renault FT tank, and for nearly eighty years that wat…
Cartier Tank Must Buying Guide: SolarBeat, Sizes, References and Prices | Ultimate Watch
The Tank Must is the entry door to Cartier at Ultimate Watch, and we mean that literally: it is the least expensive way to put a genuine Cartier Tank on your wrist without buying a solid gold model or…
Cartier Tank: The Most Famous Watch Ever Made
The Cartier Tank is the most famous dress watch ever made. Designed by Louis Cartier in 1917, inspired by the top-down silhouette of the Renault FT-17 tanks rolling across the Western Front, the Tank …
Cartier Tortue Buying Guide: CPCP Monopoussoir, References, Prices | Ultimate Watch
The Cartier Tortue is the tortoise. Louis Cartier drew it in 1912 as the third shaped case the house ever put on a wrist, after the Santos-Dumont of 1904 and the Tonneau of 1906. The name is French fo…
Clé de Cartier
The Clé de Cartier arrived at SIHH in 2015 as the first genuinely new case shape Cartier had drawn in a long time, and the name tells you where to look. Clé is French for key, and the reference is the…
Drive de Cartier
Drive de Cartier
The Drive de Cartier is Cartier's modern gentleman's dress watch, a cushion-shaped case that occupies the space between the angular Santos and the round Ballon Bleu with a confidence that neither of t…
Tank Américaine
The Tank Américaine is the tall, curved Tank in the Cartier catalog, the one that sits along the wrist instead of square on top of it. Cartier introduced it in 1989 as a modern reworking of the 1921 T…
Tank Louis Cartier
The Tank Louis Cartier is the purest surviving form of the watch Louis Cartier drew in 1917 and put into production in 1922. Where later Tanks got busier, wider, or dressed up in steel, the Tank Louis…
Tank Solo
The Cartier Tank Solo was the way most people got into a real Cartier Tank without stepping up to solid gold. Cartier launched it in 2004 as the steel, entry-price version of the Tank line, and for ab…