Cartier Tank Basculante Mécanique Patina they encapsulate the essence of

they encapsulate the essence of "tool watch" in their most elemental form

Starting in the late 1940s

Paired to a blue and white vinyl and leather one-piece strap with a stainless steel pin buckle

and a very clean gold-tone dial with dauphine hands

A chronograph is perhaps the most versatile complication

Cartier Tank Basculante Mécanique Patina they encapsulate the essence ofThe famed Cartier Tank comes in all shapes and sizes, perhaps none of them as unique and compelling as the Basculante. With its elegant guilloch dial and unique reversible case, the Tank Basculante is unique among Cartier's Tank models. Released in 1932, a year after the Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, it certainly shares design similarities with that famed watch: the case in which the dial is housed pivots inside an outer case, much like the Reverso's.