In 2023, Arab Watch Club embarked in its 3rd collaboration with the prestigious Maison Cartier, to celebrate a very important milestone in its 10th years since inception. As you all know, we kicked off in 2019 the first ever Special Order program in the world with Cartier with our Santos Dumont and Santos in Rose and White Gold and Salmon dial. We followed that a year later with our Pasha in Red and Arabic numerals and today, we have our third project, but this time a very unique Cartier Privee piece: the Tank Asymetrique.
The design elements of the watch have several inspirations – if we looked at the color of the dial , it is British green guillochee dial that has similar colors to the Crash I have created 2 years ago ; I wanted to maintain the same color codes throughout these Privee models.
The watch cases are either Platinum or Yellow Gold, giving our members the choice to two different contrasts but also catering for those who cannot wear Gold in general
The most striking and important element of the watch is the design of the numerals; these are the original Arabic numerals that have been introduced by Al Khawarizmi and they are based on geometrical shapes that indicate the number based on the count of angles in each shape!! This is a first for watchmaking to use such design for its numerals and we wanted to pioneer in that regards in our special order.
In total we have commissioned 15 watches : 9 of which were yellow gold and 6 are platimum. Each watch has been numbered and is indicated in its case back – each member has his own favorite number and engraving on its case back as well.
In over 5 years since 2019; the Arab Watch Club has commissioned 3 Special orders with Cartier in total; with almost 100 pieces that have been delivered to every proud member of the club and continuing our strong relationship with Maison Cartier and maintaining a level of trust and loyalty that we admire. Who knows what the future holds for us- perhaps something new is coming our way …. again!!!
If you are a seasonal collector with a strong collection in your portfolio and would like to join like minded and passionate collectors in the region , you can reach out to us on our Instagram accounts to discuss further
