The watch made its movie debut when Rudolph Valentino insisted on wearing his Tank during his final film, The Son of the Sheik. Call it an anachronism—or proof of the Tank's timelessness. 1963 ...

Valentino wasn’t the only style icon of the 20 th century who was devoted to his Tank watch: Avid watch collector Andy Warhol was smitten, too. “I don’t wear a Tank to tell the time ...

Tank entered the cultural zeitgeist when Rudolph Valentino wore his on screen in the silent film The Son of the Sheik in 1926.Subsequent celeb fans included Gary Cooper, Catherine Deneuve ...

Silent film star Rudolph Valentino even wore his own Tank in 1921's The Sheik, ... "The Tank watch, for us, is the purest shape ever created.

Golden Globes 2020: Jason Momoa pairs Tom Ford, Valentino — and that Twitter-loved tank top. By Khanh T.L ... Momoa also wore a Ballon Bleu de Cartier watch in 18-karat rose gold with a brown ...

(The Tank Must in its Large size is $3,100, while the Tank Normale in gold on a strap is $31,000.) Any way you slice it, the Tank—in gold, in steel—simply works with a tuxedo. Or a T-shirt.

The Tank Cintrée, a slimmer, more rectangular version of the watch, came out in 1921. It was followed by the Tank Louis Cartier in 1922: a watch with softer edges that’s now the standard for Tanks.