Cartier Tank Basculante Mécanique Patina and a very clean gold-tone

and a very clean gold-tone dial with dauphine hands

rotating the crown moves the inner bezel

the 3706 was born a classic when it was introduced in 1994

What makes the UFO so unique—notwithstanding the shape of the case—is the integrated bracelet

A chronograph is perhaps the most versatile complication

Cartier Tank Basculante Mécanique Patina and a very clean gold-toneThe famed Cartier Tank comes in all shapes and sizes, perhaps none of them as unique and compelling as the Basculante. With its elegant guilloch dial and unique reversible case, the Tank Basculante is unique among Cartier's Tank models. Released in 1932, a year after the Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, it certainly shares design similarities with that famed watch: the case in which the dial is housed pivots inside an outer case, much like the Reverso's.