Baignoire is French for bathtub, and the shape invites the comparison: a stretched oval, the long sides running close to parallel before the ends close in curves. Louis Cartier made an elongated oval watch in 1912, the piece the house treats as the Baignoire's ancestor. The curved oval case arrived in 1958 as the Ovale cintre, and Cartier gave the line the Baignoire name in 1973.
How you know it
- stretched oval case with no lugs breaking the line
- Roman numerals and blued hands on the classic dials
- cabochon-set crown
- slim, jewellery-like proportions
Sizes in the family
Mini and small models run roughly 18 to 24 mm across and 24 to 32 mm long. The Allongee stretches much further, close to 47 mm on the long axis.
Who it suits
Suits a buyer looking for a dress watch that reads as jewellery rather than as a machine.
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