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The French jeweller announced a spin on the 1917 original at Watches & Wonders
The Tank is a line of watches made by Cartier. It was created by Louis Cartier in 1917, and inspired by the new Renault tanks which Cartier saw in use on the Western Front . [ 1 ] The prototype watch was presented by Cartier to General John J. Pershing of the American Expeditionary Force .
The introduction of the tank influenced the design of the Cartier Tank watch, [190] and the design of watches during the 1920s was influenced by the Art Deco style. [191] The automatic watch , first introduced with limited success in the 18th century, was reintroduced in the 1920s by the English watchmaker John Harwood . [ 192 ]
1929 – Creation of the Tank à guichets watch. 1931 – Creation of the mystery pocket watch. 1932 – Creation of the Tank basculante watch. 1933 – Cartier filed a patent for the "invisible mount", a stone-setting technique in which the metal of the mount disappears to show only the stones. This method, known as the Mystery Setting, became ...
The commercial introduction of the quartz watch in 1969 in the form of the Seiko Astron 35SQ, and in 1970 in the form of the Omega Beta 21 was a revolutionary improvement in watch technology. In place of a balance wheel, which oscillated at perhaps 5 or 6 beats per second, these devices used a quartz-crystal resonator , which vibrated at 8,192 ...
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