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The new-for-2023 Tank Américaine lineup includes 11 total UK top Cartier fake watches across three sizes: mini, small, and large (see below for case specs). Apparently this means we’ll have to pour one out for the medium size, which we took for a Week On The Wrist in 2017.
Across all sizes, the high quality replica Cartier Tank Américaine watches will be offered in steel and rose gold; the mini and small versions also offer a diamond-treated case (and bracelet, in the case of a mini white gold version). In classic Cartier style, all will be offered on an alligator strap, and the mini and small sizes in gold will also offer an updated bracelet that’s all polished.
Like the Tank Américaine of old, the case has a combination of polished and brushed surfaces that gives the case structure and architecture. The dial on the small and mini versions is a familiar sunray finish, while the large Américaine has a vertical, satin brushed finish that I’m excited to see in person – Cartier has used this on a few perfect Cartier copy watches recently, and the effect is typically quite striking, different from Cartier’s traditional dial treatments.
In short, Cartier has refined the case of the Tank Américaine by making its curved shape and brancards (sides) just a little finer and curvier. The large version also houses a new caliber 1899 MC, which Cartier says is thinner than its previous automatic movements. It shows in the case dimensions: The new large Swiss made replica Cartier Tank Américaine watches is 8.6mm in thickness, down from the previous generation’s 9.5mm. The small and mini Américaine both use quartz movements.
What We Think
It was only 2017 when Cartier introduced the first Tank Américaine in steel, ostensibly to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Tank. The luxury Cartier Tank Américaine super clone watches itself is much younger than the Tank proper, introduced only in 1989, with words like “modernity” and “masculinity” used as its raison d’être. That is to say: It was a bigger, bolder take on the Tank Cintree of old, intended for an era when bigger, bolder, and apparently, American, were the things to be.
It drew on the 2023 replica Cartier Tank Cintree watches for inspiration, but instead of a curved caseback, the curved front of the Tank Américaine is anchored by a flat caseback. This gives the Tank Américaine a more modern wrist presence compared to the Cintree, where the curved caseback drapes around the wrist.
Fast-forward 20 years, and thin is in again. Cartier’s popularity over the past few years has been largely thanks to its small, thin dress Cartier fake watches for sale, and now it’s updating the Tank Américaine to better fit this mold. To be sure, the new Américaine still carries the largest profile of the Tank collection, but everything’s been slimmed down and refined just a smidge.
Perhaps because it’s a more modern take on the Tank, the Américaine continues to feel like one of the more approachable, everyday options in Cartier’s Tank lineup, especially in steel (30 meters of water resistance helps, too). This update is Cartier being Cartier: from a distance, you’d hardly notice the difference. But up close, the details and lines seem just a bit more refined and thoughtful; and so the Tank will continue its march forward for the next 100 years or so.
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One could perhaps best compare it to a chef serving your favorite dish with a twist you hadn’t tasted before.
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Buying other companies seems to be on LVMH’s daily to-do list. In the last two months of the year, LVMH bought Italian online wines and spirits company Tannico, Art Lab, a Tuscan company specializing in digital printing and handmade treatments on leather, and Pedemonte Group, a jewelry producer operating in Italy and France. These brands maybe don’t immediately ring a bell, but they are strategically important to LVMH. In total, LVMH, founded in Paris in 1978, made 28 acquisitions worth US$44.01 billion and made 18 investments in multiple sectors such as fashion and beauty tech, online grocery, and more.
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Rupert accumulated his fortune through the family’s tobacco business and also through Richemont SA, a publicly traded luxury goods manufacturer and retailer of which he is chairman. He also controls 10% of the company’s capital and holds 51% of its voting rights. One of Rupert’s characteristics is his deep commitment to some of the group’s watch brands. Panerai and A. Lange & Söhne, for instance, are brands that Rupert has a particular soft spot for.
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In August of last year, Rupert didn’t give in to activist shareholder Bluebell Capital Partners’ wishes to change the boardroom structure.“Our board may be slower and more conservative than others. But its openness and collegiality are exactly its advantage. I will not be blackmailed,” he said in an interview with Swiss newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft. “I can assure you of one thing: I will not change our capital structure,” Rupert also stated. Still, Bluebell Capital’s co-founder Giuseppe Bivona told Reuters that the fund’s campaign would continue as the Richemont board did not take into consideration the Class A shareholders who take the greatest financial risk.
Anton, Johann, and Anton Rupert Jr.
Still, Arnault is not an activist shareholder, and he can be very persuasive. Maybe the 72-year-old Johann Rupert might want to start thinking about taking things easy, although he’s two years younger than Arnault. Ten years ago, Rupert took a sabbatical year and was reappointed as Richemont’s Chairman in September 2014. A decade later, taking an infinite sabbatical doesn’t seem that strange.
Johann Rupert did transform his father Anton’s tobacco business into a luxury giant and force to be reckoned with, and giving that up is quite possibly not an easy thing to do. Also, Rupert does have three children who could succeed him, two daughters and a son. Of the three, son Anton Rupert Jr., on paper, seems to be the most likely candidate.
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Anton Jr. is the current director of Watchfinder, a Richemont company. In 2017, he was appointed to the board of Richemont as a non-executive director, and he’s also a member of the Strategic Security and Nominations Committee. Whether he wants to take over from his father and if his father thinks he’s capable of taking over the family-founded business is not public knowledge. And perhaps that unclarity might be the weak spot in Richemont’s armor that Arnault wants to take advantage of.
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And that just about sums up where the Française sits in the modern Cartier catalog. It’s a piece of relatively affordable, contemporary, unisex Cartier design that’s become part of the fashion and pop culture watch dialogue. It may not be a standout model when it comes to the historical Cartier canon, but the UK best fake Cartier Tank Française watches has its own kind of historical context – not to mention a personal context for yours truly.
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That’s how I remember the Française most clearly. It was a watch people’s mothers wore. A grown-up ladies’ watch.
Then, later in the 2000s, came the influx of young girls and their milestone birthday presents. The AAA Cartier Tank Française copy watches featured heavily amongst a certain set of London girls I grew up with. A symbol of their entry into young womanhood; on their way to becoming adults by dint of owning the aforementioned grown-up “Ladies’ watch.”
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Diana’s ownership of the luxury fake Cartier Tank Française watches, along with the photographs of her wearing it, have influenced the entire trajectory of this timepiece. In the ’80s and ’90s, Diana’s individual look held sway over what people wore on the streets of London – which then filtered out into the rest of the world. Today, those images of her have become broadly influential amongst a younger generation. There are countless Instagram accounts and hashtags dedicated to her on- and off-duty style, within which we can see her watch choices too. The founder of the Instagram account @ladydirevengelooks (and writer of The Lady Di Look Book) cleverly called Diana the “posthumous influencer,” and she’s not wrong. It has been 25 years since the princess’ passing and we still refer to the Tank Française as Lady Di’s watch.
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The Tank Française also follows the all-too-clever Cartier trick of extremely recognizable design which it continues to maintain despite the cosmetic upgrades. The Française ticks the entry-level box, and serves as a sort of horological version of a Love bracelet, because what you are really buying here is jewelry that tells the time. These are China Cartier replica watches that, once again, like the Love bracelet, are being made on a mass scale. Women (and men) can therefore afford to sport a little piece of Cartier, a little piece of very recognizable luxury which equates to a little piece of status.
Currently the watch is front and center with Meghan Markle wearing her own yellow gold 2023 fake Cartier Française watches, but despite the attention it has garnered, it’s unconfirmed whether the watch is actually Diana’s or a tribute. Given the omnipresence of the British royal family in the media these past couple of years, Meghan has even suffered scrutiny at the hands of the watch community as she stands at the forefront of the “to stack or not to stack” your watch debate – a contentious topic if the watch is indeed a precious family heirloom.
So when Cartier announced a relaunch, I wasn’t at all surprised. This is a watch that has been getting a lot of social media air time, and yet remains something of a late ’90s – early 2000s relic. Perhaps perfect timing for Cartier to ride on the coattails of nostalgia? Time for a scrub up, a new lick of paint and a push back into the wider conversation, beyond the pages of Instagram? But now maybe with the added agenda of appealing to all genders?
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In total there are seven new versions of the Française. All of the older styles have now officially been phased out. I sat down to examine both the smaller models (with and without diamonds) as well as the large model. And once I opened the box containing the Swiss made Cartier replica watches, I saw that everything looked largely the same – and yet I knew immediately that everything had changed.
The first and most obvious difference was the amount of brushed satin finishing on the bracelet and case, which stood in stark contrast to the polished surfaces of the original. Had the Française morphed into a Santos derivative? I remembered just how shiny the yellow gold usually looks; all light play and sparkle, perfect for my magpie tendencies. The change was unsettling at first, but the toned down gold did look good. I continued on with my investigation.
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Then onto my more meticulous examination, with a loupe (yes I used a loupe because that’s just who I am now). There had been major updates to the dial and I had a feeling that this was where the real haters were gonna hate.
The gold models now feature a champagne dial, while their steel counterparts all feature silver. All of the small models have a sunray finish on the dial, while the medium and large steel models use a satin finish. The numerals are now also applied on the dial instead of printed. The smaller models looked busier and maybe less legible as a result but I quite liked the idea that numerals were sort of melting into the background on the steel model. It certainly made the watch seem more jewelry-like to me.
Although I have come across quite a bit of shady commentary about the new endlinks (including the Hodinkee comments section) – it’s now, one large brushed end link as opposed to the previous three links – the new case and bracelet integration provides a much more seamless and ergonomic design. On top of which, the external links on the bracelet are now interlocked, which gives it a weightier look. When I examine the side profile of the watch all of these details do seem to work rather nicely – after all, Cartier are the kings of shape.
The recessed crown with the traditional blue cabochon sapphire (set with a brilliant-cut diamond on the fancier models) seems like one of those details that irks at the outset and just becomes normal with time. I happen to quite like the more streamlined modern profile that comes with this new feature.
All of the models house a quartz movement, except the large size in stainless steel which features an automatic movement with date window: Caliber MC 1853. And while we could take a guess and make generalized assumptions that perhaps most people looking to buy this watch aren’t necessarily interested in it for its mechanical prowess, watch lovers like me are left a little disappointed. Sure, it would be costly to upgrade all of these replica Cartier watches store site to be mechanical. But it would be fun to see some teeny tiny mechanical movements. And if I go even deeper down the rabbit hole of the argument that smaller jewelry-like mass-produced watches with mechanical movements aren’t cost effective for a company like Cartier, ergo consumers should be understanding, then I can’t help but think of Lady Datejusts.
I’ll be honest, I spent a lot longer wearing the small yellow gold model with diamonds. Its poor stainless steel cousin never stood a serious chance at gracing my wrist for longer than 10 minutes. And after trying on both metals in all the sizes I suddenly understood what was at play: The changes had made this watch more unisex. The brushed satin, the larger case sizes, the more substantial bracelet.
“At the time of its original inception, the Française was primarily a dedicated ladies piece,” Hodinkee alum and Parchie founder Cara Barrett told me. “Unlike the Panthère, which was overtly feminine with its bricklay bracelet, the Tank Francaise was very modern for its time. It had a masculine edge, it was an edgy watch.”
Perhaps the new interpretation, with its more matte finish and largely more substantial specs lends to the future of Cartier’s mission to lay claim as the truly gender fluid brand? In the ’90s this watch would have been modern for being a more masculine “ladies watch.” In the year 2023, the definition of modern design in best quality Cartier fake watches has come a long way. Is this part of Cartier’s plan to push even harder for a unisex design language?
“These changes intrinsically do make the watch more unisex in appeal,” long time Cartier collector Roni Madvhani said, “which is in line with the underlying paradigm shift of men’s watches getting smaller and ladies’ watches getting bigger – and individual style and finish elements of the watch having a commonality to meet this shift.”
While I do think that the gendering of Cartier replica watches paypal isn’t always as easy as calling everything unisex (there is always nuance involved in nomenclature), I do think meeting in the middle and making watches that appeal to both sexes is thoroughly modern in approach.
“It’s never going to replace a woman wanting a GMT or Sub,” Leigh Zagoory, a VP and specialist in the watch department at Sotheby’s, told me. “But the more substantial quality on the newer models versus the older models means this is no longer just a ladies’ watch.”
I sat with my Française-infused thoughts for days after the watch’s relaunch. Perhaps it’s not quite as important to the history of the entire Cartier pantheon as it is to the history of women’s replica Cartier watches for sale. But the watch is so heavily steeped in pop culture history that it would be hard for me to ignore its impact on a younger category of consumers today.
We are existing in a time that is so heavily influenced by Instagram and nostalgia and with this very strong re-appreciation for ’90s paparazzi photographs. The kids are yearning for what came before, but Cartier, like any smart brand, are looking to what comes next; and if that means a genderless Tank Française, then I am here for it. Petition for the next round of small and medium models to include mechanical movements!
There’s nothing like starting the day with a glass of champagne and a selection of interesting new watches. I know, coffee is also a good kick-start, but when you try out and try on the 2023 perfect replica Cartier Tank Française watches in the boutique and you’re given the choice between the two beverages, what would you do? Exactly. So I got the chance to have a closer look at all of the iterations of the redesigned Tank Française. Most of my attention went to the medium model in soft, shimmering yellow gold and the large model in steel.
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The 2023 Cartier Tank Française on the wrist in the Amsterdam boutique
Let me be brutally honest with you: the satin finishing of the steel models takes a bit of getting used to. What I also noticed is that the medium-sized Tank Française, measuring 32 × 27 × 7.1mm in steel (WSTA0074 / €4,800), looks a tad small on my wrist. And the large model, measuring 36.7 × 30.5 × 10.1mm (WSTA0067 / €5,900), looks a tad big.
I think the large brushed surfaces have something to do with that. The prominent square dial maybe does too. But the main “culprit” for the AAA China replica Cartier Tank Française watches’ voluminous appearance is most definitely the bracelet, which measures 22mm wide all the way around. When doing a wrist roll, the predominantly brushed bracelet with just the arms of the H-shaped links polished teases an oversized, luxurious dive watch coming into view shortly. But it never does live up to that expectation. Instead, a luxurious watch with a casual soul comes into view.
The sweet spot for me would be a case size of 34 × 28.5mm or something close to those measurements. But perhaps the large model in steel could work if I kept it on my wrist for a longer period. Maybe this chic athlete needs a bit of time to get used to it. I don’t want to dismiss the best Cartier copy watches’ instrumental looks and muscular appearance just yet.
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I heard and read some comments on the silvered sunray dial with silver-gray Roman numerals in relief instead of more traditional printed black ones. The contrast between the dial and numerals is definitely softer, but in my opinion, it’s not too soft. The slightly more restrained color gives the firm watch a bit of much-needed softness. Readability is never under threat anyway because of the characteristic blued sword hands. Even after a glass of champagne with a top-up, I had no problem seeing it was time to head back to Fratello HQ, unfortunately, without the Cartier super clone watches for sale. But it looks like we’re going to receive various references of the Tank Française in the office soon, so I can give the different sizes a longer and more thorough “test drive.”
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