Luke Combs’ Surreal Cartier Tank Proves That He’s an A1 Collector
Luke Combs has quietly been assembling a grade-A watch collection. Over the past few years, the singer has worn everything from classic luxury staples, like his Rolex GMT-Master II, to stranger, more insider-y fare, including an A. Lange & Söhne. His latest choice might be the boldest yet: an underrated variant of one of Cartier’s most eccentric designs, the Tank Folle. While everyone knows the melted dimensions of the Crash, the Folle receives much less fanfare. Combs’s Cartier made its debut in 2012, so it’s a much more recent invention than the ’60s-era Crash. But the origin of the Folle might be even more compelling. Whereas the Crash riffs on the bathtub-shaped Bangoire, the Folle goes right to one of the most iconic watches ever made in the Tank. It feels slightly more dangerous to mutate the shape of a load-bearing piece like this. The result is wonderfully bizarre. The Tank’s normally straight brancards twist and warp into an almost liquid shape, as if the watch is slowly sliding off the wrist. Combs’s variant is …





