{"product_id":"jaeger-lecoultre-tank-16322","title":"Jaeger-LeCoultre \"Vogue\" Tank 9036-32","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Jaeger-LeCoultre Ref. 9036 is a thin rectangular dress watch from the early 1970s, cased in .800 silver and powered by JLC’s manually wound Caliber 818\/2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe design is an exercise in contrast. The blue dial is spare and orderly, with applied baton markers, two hands and a small Jaeger-LeCoultre signature. No date. No seconds. Against that restraint, the case does something unexpected. Both brancards are deeply worked with a repeating pattern that gives the silver a rough, sculptural surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt’s difficult to look at those brancards today without seeing something of the postwar modernism and Brutalism moving through Swiss and European design at the time. We can’t know whether that influence was intentional. What we can see is the same interest in material, repetition, texture and the way light moves across an uneven surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe choice of silver makes the design more interesting with age. Unlike steel or gold, silver readily reacts with the world around it. Over roughly half a century, oxidation has darkened the recesses while contact has kept the higher surfaces brighter. The pattern now has a depth it could not have had when the watch was new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTime helped finish the design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eInside is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Caliber 818\/2, a 17-jewel manual-wind movement measuring less than 3mm thick. It provides only hours and minutes. The simplicity is particularly appropriate here: the movement disappears inside the case and leaves the architecture to do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe 9036 has never enjoyed the historical attention given to the Cartier Tank or Jaeger-LeCoultre’s own Reverso. There is little scholarship surrounding the reference and, as far as we have been able to establish, not even the name of the person who designed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThat doesn’t make the decisions contained in it any less deliberate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMore than fifty years later, the blue remains. The carving remains. The silver has changed. The little 818\/2 still runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThat’s enough reason to look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vaulted Watch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46148348018758,"sku":"INV-032","price":2850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/6993\/2358\/files\/JLC_Tank_01.jpg?v=1786912847","url":"https:\/\/vaultedwatch.com\/products\/jaeger-lecoultre-tank-16322","provider":"Vaulted Watch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}