Nick Gould

2 months ago | monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton |Frank Geelen |Nick Gould |Tom Mulraney

Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Louis Cartier’s Tank watch, introduced in 1917, marked a before and after in men’s wristwatches. Breaking with the taste for ornately decorated cases, the Tank Normale’s geometric case, inspired by an aerial view of armoured Renault tanks deployed in WW1, was a precursor of the clean minimalist lines of Art Deco.