Cartier Métiers dArt Crash Tigrée Métamorphoses Cartier Crash Watches

Is there really a way to know when you are making history? It’s debatable. Some breakthroughs are undeniable, like Abraham-Louis Bregeut and the tourbillon movement, Gerald Genta and sporty chic watches, Patek Philippe and well, everything, I’m kidding. But you get the drift, and then there’s Cartier. The house has been synonymous with so many icons that it’s hard to choose one that truly made them stand apart. But amidst the many, the Cartier Crash is perhaps their most unique contribution to the world of horology.

It all began in the 1960s at the Cartier boutique on New Bond Street in London, according to Francesca Cartier Brickell (a direct descendent of the Cartier family and the author of the popular book The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire) her grandfather Jean-Jacques Cartier wanted to find a way to adapt the classic Cartier oval watch into something that would appeal to the rebellious attitude of the swinging sixties. After numerous tries and versions the Cartier Crash was finally born in 1967.....

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