Cartier occupies a singular place within the watch world. Not like most watch producers, Cartier is not essentially a watch model in any respect—or at the very least, it definitely wasn’t one through the classic period. Cartier’s core enterprise is and at all times has been jewellery. This distinction, removed from being a critique, is definitely the supply of its revolutionary method to watchmaking. In an interview concerning the creation of the Tank, I am going to always remember Pierre Rainero—the picture, type, and heritage director at Cartier—describing how “the jeweler’s perspective” allowed Louis Cartier to rethink how a watch sits on the wrist. With out the experience in making and designing spherical pocket watches, Louis Cartier created the oblong Tank.
