The small Tank Francaise, graded Excellent, with box and card.

Cartier is the house that made the wristwatch a shape rather than a circle: the Tank of 1917, the Tortue of 1912, the Tonneau of 1906, each a case with Roman numerals, blued sword hands and a cabochon in the crown. Cartier makes them in gold and in steel, in quartz and in mechanical, and on the pre-owned market the gold ones sit where a Rolex Datejust does in price and a step above it in how they read across a table.

The Tank Francaise of 1996 is the Tank on an integrated bracelet, the links flowing out of the case so the whole thing reads as one piece of steel; the small size is the one on most wrists. This site already has a Rebag unit of this model graded lower and priced higher; this one is Excellent, which at Rebag means faint wear, and comes with the box and a warranty card without a date. That combination, at the lowest Francaise price here, is why it is on the page. It is sized to a 5.5 inch wrist, so ask about links.

Rebag gives the width as 20mm, the thickness as 6mm, the band width as 15mm, the wrist size as 5.5 inches, steel for case and band, quartz, box and an undated warranty card, and Excellent with faint signs of wear. The Roman dial, hands and cabochon are from the photograph. No reference is stated; W51008Q3 is the catalogue match, marked confirm. Water resistance is Cartier’s figure for the model.

Rebag authenticates in-house and is not a Cartier authorised dealer, and Amazon adds its 30-day return window. Ask for the reference and the numbers on the caseback, close-up photographs of the wear, and when it was last serviced. Nothing here was measured on the watch.

This unit is sold by Rebag through Amazon Luxury Stores, authenticated by the seller with Amazon’s 30-day return window on top; it is one piece, and when it sells the listing goes away, so the second button opens the live search for Tank Francaises.

Steel Cartiers have resold close to what pre-owned buyers paid, sometimes more, sometimes less; that is a pattern, not a promise, and nothing here is investment advice.