Cartier Watch Sale

Baignoire	Tank	Tortue	Tonneau	Ballon Bleu	La Dona de Cartier
Santos	Pasha	Roadster

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We are an online shop for discount Cartier watches offering deals of up to 30-50% lower than retail prices. Whether you're looking for an classic Cartier Tank watch, sports Tank Francaise or an elegant ladies Panther watch you will surely find it here. Based in France, Cartier watch is a leading brand in luxury timepieces. The brand name represents performance and prestige, and the wearer of a watch made by famous watch maker is immediately distinguished and associated with the iconic wealth. We welcome you to browse through our galleries of luxury watches. If you are unable to find the item you are looking for please try a search with the search bar in the upper portion of your monitor. For best results please include the words Cartier watch in your search.

Cartier watch - a brief overview of the luxury timepieces

Cartier, called the "Jeweler of the Kings" is one of the oldest fine jewelers in the world, selling elegant and distinguished jewelry and watches to royalty and celebrities. Today the timepiece maker produces one of the most popular and most recognized line of high-end luxury jewelry wristwatches in the world, including the famous Tank and Pascha watch models. Thanks to their owning of retail stores, the company is often said to be a fashion trend setter. Cartier is famous for making some of the smallest and most elegant jewelry watches for women. With an emphasis on the classical look and modernity, and an emphasis on the quality and design of the case movement, dial, the owner and collector of such a timepiece is sure to be satisfied and happy.

Cartier Jewelers - A family business for over one hundred years

Cartier was founded in 1847 by the goldsmith, Louis-Francois Cartier (1819-1904). Hewas a jewelry supplier in the high-class Parisian society. His grandson, Louis Cartier (1875–1942) and son of Alfred, took over the company and expanded it into a global jewelry empire with his two other brothers, Pierre and Jacques. While family's watch business specialized in pocket watches and added greatly to their increased popularity in the late 1800s, the company's watch business launched the first men's wristwatch around 1905 after Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont requested  that he design a watch for use during flights. In the 1920s Edward Jaeger (of the famous Jaeger Le Coulture watch company) started supplying movements for Cartier watches.

Cartier continued to introduce find wristwatches in the early 1900s, including teh Baignoire and Tortue in 1912, the Tank in 1917 and Pasha of Marrakesh in 1932. During this time period the company started stamping four-digit number codes on the back of its watches. Collectors today will often refuse a watch of those numbers are not present. Following the death of Louis in 1942 his brother Pierre took over the business in 1945. By this time the company was one of the biggest luxury watch makers in the world with stores in London, New York, Hong Kong, Geneva, Cannes, Monte Carlo and the Persian Gulf.

The successors of Louis Cartier did not have the creative talent of Louis and the company lost its strength in the 1950s-1960s. It was not until 1972 when a group of investors led by Alain Perrin and Robert Hocq took over the company that it started to regain market share. Under the leadership of Perrin and Hocq, the company launched the successful Le Must line and re-launched former successful classic watches such as the Santos. Today Cartier has regained its position as one of the leading makers of luxury watches in the world, with its most successful watches including the classic Tank, the trendy and sporty Tank Francaise which was designed after the Santos, and the ladies Pasha and beautiful Cartier Panther.