Cartier Tank L.C. specialpricing few things come close in

few things come close in cool factor

and Carrera) might have stolen the spotlight in the collector market

Even its origin story is legendary: Jack Heuer heard the name at a race in Florida and registered it upon his return to Switzerland

Daredevil aviator Jimmy Mattern wore a Wittnauer AllProof in his aborted flight around the world in 1933

as well as some of our own musings on the subject for Christies

Cartier Tank L.C. specialpricing few things come close inIts an interesting juxtaposition when something inspired by a tool of war becomes the height of sophistication and good taste. And yet in the case of the Cartier Tank, that is precisely what happened. It was December 1916, or so the story went. Monsieur Louis Cartier, newly a bachelor at 41, sat at his office in the Rue de la Paix and looked at the morning paper. He was struck by the photograph he saw on the front page: a great machine roaring over a