At the Baselworld 2012, Cartier will be presenting the new Tank Folle hand-wound ladies watch, a reincarnation of the legendary Cartier Crash from the late 1960s. Clearly influenced by Salvador Dali’s “liquid” clocks, the original watch was an homage to one of Cartier of London senior managers who died in a car crash. His wrist watch was deformed by fire to a degree of melting and some other member of staff took the destroyed timekeeper as a source of inspiration.

The 18K carat, white gold case is made from sapphire crystal, is water resistant to thirty meters, and is powered by a manual-wind Cartier caliber MC 8970 movement. The dial, which features Roman numerals, is decorated with 51 white diamonds weighing more than 1.6 carats. This surprising, creative and stylish Tank collection is available in a limited series of 200 timepieces.

Hublot is launching the first ever timepiece that has a scratch-resistant gold case. Called the Hublot Magic Gold, the watches will be presented at BaselWorld 2012. Hublot gold has a hardness rating of almost 1000 Vickers (most hardened steels are up to 600 Vickers). This makes Hublot the hardest in the world, and by some margin it can only really be “scratched” by a diamond.

Hublot has joined the stream of limited edition models by issuing its new F1 King Power Interlagos watch. This marks the second new Hublot F1 watch unveiled this month and the eighth model overall for the Hublot F1 collection. It is dedicated to the Formula 1 Grande Premio Petrobras do Brasil 2011 competition, the last Grand Prix of this season’s Formula One World Championship. The Hublot F1 King Power Interlagos watch comes on a hornback alligator leather strap with blue stitching.