Name: Cartier Tank à Pattes
Brand: Cartier
SKU: DR-247.X.10.161.CN.BD-LNIB-OPEN
Availability: InStock

The light hits the flanks first. 18k white gold, rectangular, unpolished, edges still sharp, hand-etched inventory number intact. Clean, London style dial. Then those lugs. They extend; almost paw-like, deliberate, a part of the case that turns the shape into something almost animalistic. Tank à Pattes.

Cartier has always been an alchemist of shape. The Tank was never just a rectangle. It was a refusal of the circle, redrawn until the lugs became the argument. Shape was a complication. Not decoration. Not jewellery. Architecture that just happened to keep time.

Vital Bueche and Edwige Girod started the house in 1946. By the 1950s and 60s their movements and cases were so precise, so slim, so well finished that Cartier; already the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers, chose them as the preferred supplier. The quality was exactly the point. Frank Sinatra wore one at the Sands. Jerry Lewis collected them. Robert De Niro's character in Casino had one on the wrist.

White Cartier from this collaboration sits in a different scarcity band. Yellow gold was always volume and yes, white gold a much quieter cut but a white Cartier with a Girod engine underneath is an entirely different kind of rare.

You just do not see them. When one surfaces it does not need a comparison.

We offer complimentary worldwide delivery on our watches. If ordering from overseas, delivery will depend on the value of the timepiece and the destination.

Please note that all import taxes and duties are the responsibility of the buyer.

If ordering from Hong Kong before 1 PM HKT, your watch will be sent the same working day. The courier will depend on the value of the watch, with all watches delivered the next working day.

All orders below USD 100 000 are shipped using our insured courier partners. For orders above USD 100 000, we use specialised services used by the jewellery industry for shipping high-value products.

Your satisfaction and trust is of the highest importance to us and we stand by the quality of all of our watches.

We offer a three month warranty on the mechanical function of all watches bought from us, starting from the day of purchase.

We do not guarantee the waterproofness of any watch and therefore, this warranty also does not cover any cosmetic damage to the case and/or movement by water or moisture entering the watch.

Our warranty does not apply to any accidental damage or mishandling of your watch and excludes the bracelet, case parts (including pushers, winding stem, crown and bezel), watch glass, dial and hands.

CONDITION: Excellent vintage, unpolished, original hand-etched inventory number
YEAR: Circa 1950s-1960s
MATERIAL: 18k White Gold
CASE: Rectangular Tank à Pattes architecture, extended paw-like lugs
MOVEMENT: Manual-wind, Bueche Girod
FUNCTIONS: Hours, minutes
DIAL: Cartier
CRYSTAL: Acrylic
STRAP: Leather
BUCKLE: Period-correct Cartier plated buckle

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