“IMPERTINENT BEAUTY, STEADFAST MODERNITY, AND A TOUCH OF SOPHISTICATION”
Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Duke Ellington, Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gunther Sachs, Gianni Agnelli, Muhammad Ali, and Andy Warhol. A diverse group of super-cool cats who all shared one thing in common: the Cartier Tank watch on their wrists.
Warhol once said, “I don’t wear a Tank watch to tell the time. In fact, I never wind it. I wear a Tank because it’s the watch to wear.” The pope of Pop Art was, of course, just being deliberately insipid, as usual. The Tank is as much a marvel of mechanical excellence as it is an aesthetic triumph.
This most elegant of watches in fact has a military background, its rectangular design having been inspired by the Renault FT-17 tanks being used on the Western Front during World War I, when Parisian jeweler Louis Cartier initially devised it. And one of the very first Tanks was a gift to General John “Black Jack” Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force, who was stationed in Paris during the conflict.
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