Watch brand

Cartier

Founded in Paris in 1847, Cartier is a French maison whose watchmaking is defined by shaped cases, jewelry-led design, and enduring icons such as the Tank, Santos, Panthere, and Crash.

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Cartier
CountryFrance
Founded1847
Families64
References2,064

Explore Cartier in The Dial Atlas

The Cartier entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 2,064 cataloged references across 64 families. The catalog records 1847 as its founding year and France as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.

Start with Ballon Bleu de Cartier (266 references), Pasha de Cartier (179 references), Panthère de Cartier (162 references), Tank Américaine (116 references), and Santos de Cartier (104 references). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.

Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.

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