The first thing to note about the Tank à Guichets is what's been taken away. The dial is gone. The hands are gone. The Cartier signature is gone, crowded off...

There's a moment, familiar to most collectors, when a watch stops being an object and starts being something else. It's not when you first see it in a photograph, or...

There’s a moment that happens with certain watches, usually when you’re not expecting it. You glance down, not to check the time, but almost out of habit, and something about...