Cartier Tank Cintrée made for Barthelay the characteristic leaf-shaped hands in

the characteristic leaf-shaped hands in rose gold that immediately identify the earlier production of this reference

The two-line Patek Philippe Genève signature sits exactly where it should

A Royal Oak in its more intimate proportions — the original idea

In the context of the Coussin — a softer

here re-created in solid platinum with all the sharp lines and delicate curves of the originals

Cartier Tank Cintrée made for Barthelay the characteristic leaf-shaped hands inThe Tank Cintre is among the most architecturally demanding of all Cartier's Tank family. Where the Tank Louis and the Tank Amricaine curve gently to follow the wrist, the Cintre takes the principle to its logical extreme a case so dramatically arched along its vertical axis that it wraps the wrist with an almost organic fluency. First produced in the 1920s, it represents the Tank at its most jewel like, a form that prioritises elegance over