‘A Glimpse Into Andy Warhol’s Undiscovered Timepieces’
On January 4, 2022, Charlie Dunne wrote ‘A Glimpse Into Andy Warhol’s Undiscovered Timepieces’ on Wristcheck.
“While Warhol owned a number of Cartiers like the various Tanks, a Bagnoire and an elongated model powered by a Universal Geneve calibre, one particular Cartier is often misrepresented online as Warhol’s watch. Illustrated within Matthew Hranek’s’ A Man & His Watch ', this watch is actually designer Ralph Lauren’s Cartier Cintrée. Despite a clarification from Lauren where he described the provenance of the gold cuff from his acquisition of an ambiguous watch at Sotheby’s 1988 auction, many platforms have mistakenly cited the Cintrée to be Warhol’s. “I was at an auction of Andy Warhol's watches and I saw this great gold cuff on one of his watches. The watch itself was junk – I don't even know what I did with it – but this cuff was amazing. So I took it to Cartier and had it sized to my wrist, and put it on this Cintrée. I love the way it looks, and this is a watch you see me wearing a lot,” said Lauren in an interview with Hodinkee. This famed gold cuff now seen on Lauren’s Cartier Cintrée was actually a part of Warhol’s gold Tavannes.”
