Nathalie Baye wears a Cartier Tank

Le prix a payer, Alexandra Leclere's 2007 French comedy, casts Nathalie Baye as Odile Menard, the wife of a wealthy businessman, Jean-Pierre, played by Christian Clavier. The marriage has settled into an arrangement where he earns and she spends, and the plot turns on his decision to cut off her money. The frame on file catches Odile at a table with a checkbook in front of her.

The record lists her watch as a Cartier Tank Divan, the wide, elongated Tank that Cartier introduced in 2002, worn with its long axis along the wrist so it reads more like a cuff than a dial. That identification comes from a single French watch-spotting catalogue with no reference and no screen-legible frame to confirm it, and the still does not show her wrist. The Tank line goes back to 1917 and Louis Cartier's sketches after the Renault tanks of the First World War, with the Divan a later and more horizontal variation on it.