Among the many timepieces created under the gifted eye of Louis Cartier, the Baignoire may be his most underappreciated one yet. Admittedly for the Baignoire, it cannot be easy competing with the likes of heavyweights such as the Santos de Cartier — the maison’s de facto watch icon — and its debonair cousin the Santos Dumont, as well as the inimitable Cartier Tank across its infinite shapes, styles and sizes. Even the Pasha has had its time in the sun in 2020 when the maison revitalized it for the 21st century and made it the watch of such contemporary luminaries as Rami Malek who recently also repped the Tank Française in a Guy Ritchie-directed campaign co-starring legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve.
But now it is the Baignoire’s turn to shine because when you take a long hard look at each of these unique creations, you will not miss the stroke of genius that is the vision of Louis Cartier coursing through them a continuous red thread. Just as it delineates the elegant silhouette of the Santos — said to have been inspired by a square-shaped pocket watch from
