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About these collections
Panthère de Cartier A bracelet that happens to tell the time, revived in 2017
Panthère first appeared in 1983 and Cartier brought it back in 2017 with the original idea intact: a watch that wears like a bracelet. The supple linked bracelet is the whole point, lying flat and moving with the wrist. The square case carries a screwed bezel, Roman numerals, a rail-track minute ring, blued steel sword hands and a cabochon-set crown, in steel, yellow, white or pink gold and two-tone, alongside diamond-set versions. Quartz, as the original was.
How you know it
- supple bracelet-like links
- square case with screwed bezel
- Roman numerals
- rail-track minute ring
Sizes
mini 25x19, small 30x22 and medium 36.5x26.7 mm, plus large
Who it suits
Suits a buyer who wants jewellery first and a watch second: the mini and small sit close on smaller wrists, while the medium reads as a normal daily watch.
Tank Cartier's rectangular dress watch, in production since 1919
Louis Cartier drew the Tank in 1917 and the first watches sold in 1919. The line has run ever since, with Cartier owned by Richemont for decades. The defining move is the brancards, the vertical bars that frame the dial and carry straight into the strap or bracelet, so case and band read as one line. The family covers Louis Cartier, Française, Américaine and Must, plus the Solo, which the Must replaced in 2021, now sold secondhand only.
How you know it
- brancards framing the dial
- blued steel sword hands
- cabochon crown, sapphire or spinel
- Roman numerals on most dials
Sizes
21 to 31 mm wide, 26 to 44 mm long
Who it suits
Suits a buyer who wants a flat, formal watch that sits under a cuff and reads as design first.
Santos de Cartier Square, screwed and made for daily wear, from a design traced to 1904
Cartier made the first Santos in 1904 for the flight pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. As Cartier tells it, he wanted the time readable without taking his hands off his airship. The brief gave a squared case with rounded flanks and a flat bezel carrying exposed screws; in 1978 Cartier added the integrated bracelet whose links carry the same screws. The current Santos de Cartier adds QuickSwitch, a tool free strap release, and SmartLink sizing on the metal bracelet.
How you know it
- exposed screws on the bezel
- squared case with rounded flanks
- screw down crown, synthetic spinel
- Roman numerals, sword shaped hands
Sizes
Three sizes, 27 to 40 mm wide, 35 to 47.5 long
Who it suits
For the buyer who wants one Cartier that handles a suit and a weekend without changing character.
Baignoire The oval Cartier, quieter than the Tank and closer to jewellery
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
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.
Cartier makes the most recognizable shapes in watchmaking, and our selection focuses on the ones collectors actually wear: the Santos in steel and two tone, the Tank in every generation from Louis to Must, the oval Baignoire, and the Panthère as the definitive bracelet first jewelry watch.
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