Cartier

Over the years quite some books have been released about Cartier watches. Most of these books are still available, especially at Amazon.com , sometimes you can find books like Cartier by George Gordon, on their 'second hand' pages. This book does not have...  

.... thanks for the offer, certainly will look for you if i can;t find the information here. stefan

The idea was just to show what has been published and is available, since not everything can be found straight away on the shelves in the bookstore. The books have so much history and interesting information. The subject of the post was may be misleading.... 

Wow! What a nice collection. Do you have a favorite and do you have a "must have if you love Cartier" recommendation?

since most of the books are a bit specialized, in objects, or in watches, in jewels, in jewels and watches, or just Tank watches. The most all round book IMHO Le Temps de Cartier , it's about (mostly) watches, clocks and objects and my second choice would... 

I like Hans Nadelhofer's book for a general history of Cartier. And the massive Cartier Collection weighs in at about 20 lbs but it is very interesting. - SJX

for a nerd like me, it's really necessary. 'The Cartier Collection', as you mention, is superb, but so heavy, almost impossible to handle. I had to take a taxi home, when I got the book. GEO

which book would you choose?

But if one book should do the trick, I think it's 'Le Temps de Cartier'. It contains everything, even some history and I feel that the book is more updated than Cartier 'Jewellers Extraordinary' by Hans Nadelhoffer (T&H), printed 1984, that hardly contain... 

will check out amazon shortly for it.

Yesterday I bought this book at the exposition (in Czech). Very nice.

thks fr sharing This message has been edited by Hororgasm on 2010-10-12 10:58:13

in Singapore last week. GEO