Cartier, The Essence of Time

For over a century this celebrated Place Vendome jeweler has employed an innate sense of materials and form to produce incomparably stylish watches such as the Tank, the Cartier Replica Santos, the Pasha, the Tortue and the Ballon Bleu. Cartier’s inventory includes landmark watches, complicated editions and extravagant jewelry timepieces - In other words, more than enough to draw collectors and aesthetes the world over.

Few brands boast as rich and diverse a historical catalog as Cartier. This is partially due to longevity. “The jeweler to the kinds and the king of the jewelers” was founded in Paris in 1847 and began making watches soon after. In 1853 Cartier released its first gusset watches and in 1888 it unveiled the first jewelry wristwatches. Through...