Meryl Streep wears a Cartier Tank

In a still from The Devil Wears Prada 2, Miranda Priestly sits at a table with her hands folded under her chin, a band of polished steel at her cuff above a heavy gold chain bracelet. The steel band is the bracelet of a Cartier Tank Française.

The Tank Française is the version Cartier launched in 1996, the first Tank built around a fully integrated metal bracelet, its links angular and close-set so the case and the band read as one piece. The line is older than that. Louis Cartier designed the first Tank in 1917 after watching Renault FT-17 tanks cross the Western Front, and the rectangular case keeps the outline of a tank seen from above.

Harper's Bazaar counts two Tank Françaises in Miranda's wardrobe for the sequel, a gold model at 34,300 dollars and a steel one at 5,600, and says she wears the steel version because it ties in with her silver hair. So the most feared woman in a film full of Cartier wears the least expensive of its Cartier watches. By the magazine's own account she chose the steel to match her hair.

The watch catalogues got this one backwards. One of them logged a Cartier Baignoire on Miranda, reference WGBA0075, then gave the same reference to Andy Sachs. The Baignoire is Andy's. The same magazine puts the brown-strapped Baignoire, 17,200 dollars, on Anne Hathaway's wrist, where she wears it turned backwards.