Cartier Tank Cintrée made for Barthelay The two-line Patek Philippe Genève

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

All original

The Gerald Genta Fantasy collection occupies a wonderfully strange corner of haute horlogerie

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

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

Cartier Tank Cintrée made for Barthelay The two-line Patek Philippe GenèveThe 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