{"product_id":"cartier-tank-a-pattes","title":"Cartier Tank à Pattes","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eCartier 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eVital 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhite 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eYou just do not see them. When one surfaces it does not need a comparison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cartier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46029211893783,"sku":"DR-247.X.10.161.CN.BD-LNIB-OPEN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0165\/1838\/files\/IMG_0643.jpg?v=1793794343","url":"https:\/\/www.highendtime.com\/products\/cartier-tank-a-pattes","provider":"HIGHENDTIME","version":"1.0","type":"link"}