Here’s another watch that’s no stranger to the pages of Fratello. I told the story of how I ended up winning my perfect replica Cartier Tank Solo in an Instagram photography competition. But why do I like it enough to include it in my five-watch collection? Well, it’s simple. Like the Panerai, this watch is an outlier in a group of otherwise rather similar watches. It also serves a very specific purpose as it’s the one dress watch in this collection. Now, I don’t dress up often, but when the occasion does arise, not just any old watch will do. The brilliant thing about the luxury fake Cartier Tank Solo is that it takes dressing up just as well as dressing down. Giving it a sportier look is just a strap-swap away.
This best 1:1 replica Cartier Tank is also the second quartz watch in this lineup. Would I go with a mechanical version instead? No, I honestly wouldn’t. I quite enjoy that every time I grab this one, whether from the safe or my sock drawer, I know it’s running on time.
There’s no need to wind and set it. I just strap it to my wrist, and I’m ready to rock and roll. The last thing left to do with this cheap fake Cartier is to have something engraved on the back. I promised I’d never sell it, so I might as well commit to making it mine. Hopefully, someday soon, inspiration will strike, and I’ll find the perfect memento to have etched onto the case back.
If there is anyone in Hollywood who can do no wrong right now, it’s Timothée Chalamet. Whatever he wears becomes a trend. Any film he’s in is a hit. Even his slightly random sense of humour on his social media is deemed ‘alternative’ and therefore cool.
It’s clear that everything he does, says or wears is carefully considered. He knows how to dictate his own narrative just as well as he knows how to create and manage hype and hysteria around him. It’s why we are not surprised in the slightest by the luxury replica watches we’ve caught a glimpse of on his wrist. Photos of him wearing timepieces are few and far between – perhaps in keeping with what you’d expect from your average 27 year old – so when he does decide to wear a copy watch, it’s fair to say there is a motive or a story behind it.
Case in point at last year’s Venice Film Festival where given the shared French chicness, you’d assume Timothée Chalamet has been working with perfect replica Cartier for years. In actual fact, the watchmaker’s ‘Friend of the house’ partnership with Chalamet was only announced in 2021 to coincide with the Dune premiere at the same glitzy festival, when he took to the red carpet wearing a dazzling selection of vintage super clone Cartier jewellery that included a vintage brooch in 18k white gold, diamonds and onyx cabochon.
Crucially, on that occasion, he was sans watch – in a sparkling outfit by his friend, the designer, Haider Ackermann. That was put right with his appearance on the red carpet of Bones and All where he wore a cheap fake Cartier Tank à Vis double time zone from 2002 in white gold. That the watch was paired with one of his more, let’s say, messy red carpet outfits – comprising what looks like a knitted Bode cardigan, camouflage cargo shorts and black boots – does not diminish the near-perfect synergy that exists between Timothée Chalamet and the AAA quality replica Cartier Tank.
Entirely by accident rather than design, the best 1:1 replica Cartier Tank is perhaps the world’s first example of a gender-neutral watch. Despite the fact that its name and main design inspiration come from the tire treads of a Renault tank, there is something undeniably pretty and chic about the watch. Perhaps that’s why it has been worn by people as diverse as Princess Diana, Jacqueline Onasiss, Muhammed Ali and Rudolph Valentino, without diminishing their femininity or masculinity one iota. While not one of his most daring red carpet outfits – that accolade belongs to a matching red trouser and halter neck blouse combo which revealed a lithe and toned back – Swiss made fake Cartier’s association with Chalamet cleverly helps to position the maison not only at the heart of the red carpet action but also the new gender-bending, cross-dressing style of masculinity that Monsieur Chalamet has helped to popularise.
After a few years in the doldrums in late ‘90s and early ’00s when the fashion shifted towards big clunky tool watches, the fortunes of the Tank and Cartier replica watches for sale in general over the past 10 years have soared. For some naysayers, Cartier will always be a jeweller first, watchmaker second. And yet, this is exactly why its legions of devoted fans male and female love the brand. A focus on form: that iconic tire tread, unusual rectangular case and distinctive decoration such as the bejewelled cabochon crown and roman numeral dial – rather than movements and complications – ensures that Cartier makes watches unlike any other. In a world of tool watches, the high qualty replica Cartier Tankhas no other function than to look glamorous, and can be worn with jeans and trainers as both an everyday beater and as a red carpet dazzler a là Paul Mescal and, of course, Chalamet.
His dual time version is likely to be a vintage piece from the brand’s now defunct Collection Privé copy Cartier Paris line which ran from 1998-2008 and revived and modernised unusual designs from the brand’s storied back catalogue. At first glance the dual timezone dial looks like a regular dial until you see that it has been split in half to show two time zones in a symmetrical configuration. It is ingenious, elegant and somewhat trippy, like a piece of haute horological op-art, and one of the reasons what pieces from Collection Privé such as the Chinoise, Asymetrique, and Chinoise – all remixes of the Cartier Tank replica paypal – have been reaching new heights at auction. Is it any wonder, when all of them look as good on men and women alike?
And before rocking this best quality replica Tank, the only other notable watch flex from Chalamet wasn’t too dissimilar in shape, size and iconic status. Back in 2018 when Chalamet exploded onto the scene for his performance in Call Me by Your Name, he hit the awards campaign hard and although he didn’t win Best Actor at the Oscars, life would never be the same again for him. At the Golden Globes, the Baftas and the Oscars, if people weren’t already convinced that he was the real deal, his choice of wristwear provided ample evidence to suggest he was someone of exacting tastes.
The watch collecting world has always had its favourites. The copy Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and the Patek Philippe Nautilus, for instance, have for some time been firmly established as the go-to for understated elegance – having a heritage and history that’s distinctive without being OTT. But lately, another classic that shares those pre-requisite qualities has majorly grown in popularity: the perfect replica Cartier Tank.
“People are beginning to recognise that these Cartier fake watches online have been thematic throughout the 20th century,” says Harry Fane, a London-based dealer who specialises in vintage 1:1 replica Cartier watches and jewellery. “They’ve been iconic, and they are fundamentally beautiful and elegant.”
The AAA quality fake Cartier Tank was first introduced in 1919, its sleek shape inspired by the physique of a WWI combat vehicle. It resonated with customers from day one – although it was made in extremely limited quantities for decades – but, until recently, the Tank hasn’t really been an “it” watch. Now, it’s becoming exactly that, with a newfound popularity also echoed by another classic top copy Cartier design, the Santos, which Louis Cartier, a grandson of the brand’s co-founder Louis-François Cartier, created in 1904 for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont, an acclaimed pilot of the era.
As vintage and neo-vintage Cartier replica watches online have become more popular, their prices have been rising accordingly, especially at auction. Last year, a stainless-steel Tank from 1935 was sold by Sotheby’s for more than £200,000 [245,700 CHF]. A few months ago, Phillips sold a rare skeletonised 2014 for more than £60,000.
That surge in interest in high quality Cartier fake watches applies to less expensive previously-owned Cartier watches as well, which are arguably more aesthetically consistent with older versions than watches from other brands. On the resale website Watchfinder, for example, Cartier replica for sale now sits among its top five most searched-for brands, ahead of the likes of Patek Philippe. There, a simple stainless-steel Cartier Tank copy for sale starts at about £4000; prices for a Santos begin at around £6000.
Over time, the best copy Cartier Tank’s design has been tweaked in many ways: stretched out and narrowed on a Tank Américaine, accessorised with a metal strap on a Tank Française, solar powered and with vegan strap on the SolarBeat. Still, whatever version, a Tank is immediately recognisable. “Every iteration or variation revolves firmly around the iconicity of this unique watch,” says Franco Cologni, who’s written The Swiss movement replica Cartier Tank Watch (Flamarrion), an updated version of which is coming out in February. “More inclined to fashion, or more intended to resist the test of time, these variations – like in a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach – reinforce the main theme.”
The Panthère, which was first introduced in 1983 and discontinued in 2004, was re-released in 2017 with minor changes. “We just re-engineered the bracelet to make it even more solid, even more fluid, with techniques we didn’t have at the beginning of the ’80s,” Rainero explains.
And then there’s the Crash, a quirky high end copy Cartier watch that was first introduced in 1967 by Cartier London, during a period in the late ’60s and early ’70s when the brand’s Bond Street location spearheaded watches of its own design instead of just simply carrying Paris-born creations. Cartier London’s watches are certainly different – in many cases, like the Crash, the designs look like classic timepieces re-interpreted by a Surrealist – but they are also, somehow, unmistakingly Cartier replica for sale.
“I don’t think it’s by chance that they were born there,” Rainero says. “They are born in a context that is very specific: there’s a specific attention to the elegance among men in Great Britain. Also, let’s not forget that period was a very specific period for the world in general but for London in particular.”
Prices of the Crash have been soaring recently. Earlier this year, one from 1967 sold at auction on the site Loupe This, for £1.32m [$1.65 million].
Swiss super clone Cartier recently dropped an updated take on another watch that was created by Cartier London, the Pebble. Originally introduced in 1972, the watch shares the Crash’s far-out vibe, with Roman numerals that look like they’re being viewed through a kaleidoscope. Issued in a limited edition of 150, the Pebble has been updated with a new movement – the Manufacture 430 MC mechanical movement, one of top quality replica Cartier Tank’s thinnest.
