Cartier’s Latest Privé Addition: The Tank Normale
Cartier?s Privé collection is quite coveted, being developed annually as a series of limited-edition numbered watches that the brand refers to as “the collectors’ collection.” It features the maker?s most iconic and legendary models, now including the Tank Normale. As the watch that started it all it seems fitting for Cartier?s arcane collection given its own mythic associations.
The original Tank, created by Louis Cartier in 1917 and released in 1919, is one of the most recognizable designs in the history of watchmaking. It also offered a foundation for numerous variations of the Tank design that Cartier has developed in the past century, including the Normale. After a lengthy hiatus of its production, the Normale is now offered as a symbolic reference to the brand?s past and present alike.
Among the most recognizable features of the Tank is its geometric silhouette, contrasting the soft contours of the wrist with its rectangular shape. The dimensions of the new Normale have been increased in comparison to predecessors, now occupying a modernized footprint of 35.2mm x 27.8mm. Cartier is offering two iterations of the watch, one clad in yellow gold and the other in platinum. For the signature cabochon, the yellow gold version is adorned with a blue sapphire while the winding crown of the platinum model is complete with a ruby.
Maintaining the design iconography of the original, the dial includes a characteristic inner railroad t...
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