Given the shared French chicness, you’d assume Timothée Chalamet has been working with AAA US Cartier replica watches for years. In actual fact, the watchmaker’s ‘Friend of the house’ partnership with Chalamet was only announced last year to coincide with the Dune premiere at the Venice Film Festival, after he took to the red carpet wearing a dazzling selection of vintage 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.
All that was put right last week with his appearance on the red carpet of Bones and All at the Venice Film Festival last week where he wore high quality fake Cartier Tank à Vis double time zone watches 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 best Cartier Tank replica watches.
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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 1:1 Cartier super clone watches 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 luxury Cartier Tank replica watches has 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 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 perfect fake Cartier Tank watches– have been reaching new heights at auction. Is it any wonder, when all of them look as good on men and women alike?
