A Century of Cartier Wristwatches

Published in 1989, this was among the first dedicated studies of Cartier's wristwatch output as a subject in its own right, predating both Nadelhoffer's revised 2007 edition and Forster's Cartier Time Art by more than two decades. Its value lies partly in that historical position: written while many of the watches it covers were still entering the secondary market for the first time, and drawing on documentation and knowledge that has since become harder to trace.

The Antique Collectors' Club was at the time the leading publisher of specialist reference books on the decorative arts and antiques market in Britain, and the book was aimed squarely at collectors beginning to take Cartier watches seriously as objects of study rather than purely as timekeeping instruments. The treatment is visual and reference-oriented, with attention to distinguishing features of individual references.

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The wristwatch forms Cartier developed and produced across the twentieth century, from the earliest commissions through the form-defining designs of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s — the Tank, Tonneau, Tortue, Ronde, and related forms — and into the mid-century output. A useful companion to the Nadelhoffer and Forster treatments, and a document of how collector knowledge stood in the late 1980s.

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Available secondhand; the Antique Collectors' Club edition circulates in the watch book market. Not reprinted and now scarce relative to the Cologni Tank monograph or the Forster volume.

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Referenced in glossary entries on Cartier Watches, Cartier Tank, Tonneau, Tortue, and Cartier Ronde.