the first Cartier Tank was introduced in 1917 by Louis Cartier himself, during the First World War and became Cartier’s most well-known collection
Cartier launches in Shanghai an English version of the tang named Tank Anglaise
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© Cartier Tank Anglaise medium white gold diamonds
‘The Tank Anglaise launched this year inherits the essence of the Tank family, while boldly adding to it with its own innovative design elements. We hope this timepiece will live on to write another chapter in the never-stopping legacy of Tank!’ said cartier’s CEO Bernard Fornas
there are three versions of the Cartier Tank Anglaise model for men and women, in three different sizes with three different types of gold. The largest model for both men and women is equipped with the in-house mechanical automatic calibre 1904MC, which collectors may recognize from the Calibre de Cartier collection and as the base of Cartier’s automatic Fine Watchmaking models
© Cartier Tank Anglaise large white gold
when the Tank Louis Cartier, the first Tank model, was revealed to the world as a full production watch in 1917, it had become a watch that was simultaneously rectangular and square. This unprecedented design advance was a product of thinking about how to integrate case, lugs and strap. Key to the design were the brancards or vertical bars on the sides of the case
© Cartier Tank Anglaise small pink gold
since this model appeared, the tank has never stopped pushing the aesthetics of wristwatch design forward. There have been no less than 14 models produced since 1917, all of them distinctive evolutionary steps. Cartier puts it this way: ‘The story of the Tank watch continues to be written, never to stop. Never stop Tank’
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