The Timone / Helm / Gouvernail / Ronde Squelette by Cartier is an icon and unmistakable.

We all know the so popular Cartier Helm / Gouvernail / Timone with the first examples appearing at the end of the 1930s and most in the 1950s and 1960s. Such a unique Cartier-design, right? Maybe not. The Cartier-pocketwatch (platinum, super-rare) on the right was made in 1955, for example. Beautiful, yes. But the Longines-timepiece on the left is very similar, also made of platinum and was made in 1935 according to the Excerpt of the Longines-Archive: diamonds, rubys and pure Art Deco. And there are even more similarities: they both share the same dimensions, the same dial (railroad-minutetrack) and more often than not the exact same hands. #SameOrDifferent? Amazing & Surprising.

A Cartier like this Longines in platinum and similar quality, with original dial (which many Cartiers dont have today anymore, very obviously) and documentation (Excerpt of Archive) would be an amazing find and worth a crazy price... And when you rate this Longines irrelevant because it is all all-similar to a Cartier besides of the brand-print, then this reveals that you are not really into watches as an object but the specific brand-names for show-off... and nothing is wrong with that, but now I think about sending it to Italy for a dial-refreshment with a different print... :-)

Nono, just a joke.