Watches
It is primarily through the huge number of modern homages that the Cartier Tank had become the world’s most recognisable dress watch. Last year alone, a host of new anniversary editions were created to mark 100 years of production.
Less appreciated is that, among the thousands of Cartier Tanks sold on the secondary market every year, watches from the pre-war era are surprisingly rare. In the first years Louis Cartier’s machine-age design entered production perhaps just six were made per annum. In the first 50 years, the entire run was fewer than 6000.