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Best Jewelry Watch 2022: Cartier Crash Tigrée Metamorphoses
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Best Jewelry Watch 2022: Cartier Crash Tigrée Metamorphoses
The Cartier Crash Tigrée is the winner of Best Jewelry Watch for 2022.
The Cartier Crash Tigrée gets an award for any number of reasons, not least because it is the most extravagant version of Cartier’s most beloved shaped watch. Also, it is inherently challenging to rework an already highly idiosyncratic design. What’s most intriguing about the Tigrée is how the artisanal crafts of gem-setting and enameling are used to exploit the organic lines of the Crash so as to achieve a design that has an abstract, Rorschach-like effect — whether it is a tiger, a crocodile, a flowing river or simply a psychedelic tribute to the Swinging Sixties is open to interpretation.
Produced in a limited, numbered edition of 50 pieces, and considering that the only variations in design seen in the Crash have been the Skeleton and Radieuse so far, the Tigrée is indeed a very special watch that showcases Cartier’s absolute mastery of jewelry and watch design.