A new lease of life for a century-old watchmaking icon, the Cartier Santos
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A new lease of life for a century-quondam watchmaking icon, the Cartier Santos
At 115 years young, Cartier's Santos gets a refresh with the new Santos-Dumont and Santos de Cartier collections, the erstwhile aimed at dressy gents while the latter trained on more audacious types.
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24 Jul 2022 06:30AM (Updated: 04 Jul 2022 06:04PM)
When your archive is every bit extensive equally Cartier's, y'all don't have to wait far for inspiration – just deep. And that's exactly what the watchmaker-jeweller has done this year with the Santos, which has a history of over a century.
Already a much-beloved icon of the Parisian powerhouse, and a colonnade collection in its stable of watches, the Santos received an update in the Santos-Dumont and Santos de Cartier lines.
For the uninitiated, the Santos takes its name from Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, for whom the original timepiece was created in 1904. Fitted with a leather strap to permit Santos-Dumont hands-costless telling of time, the watch went downward in history as being one of the first, if not the starting time, wristwatch for men. This, you'll remember, was an era when pocket watches still ruled.
Harking back to the finesse of the early 20th century, the new Cartier Santos-Dumont sports an elegantly gaunt case (simply 7mm loftier) in all-gold, steel and gilded, or all-steel. Enabling this svelteness is the use of a new in-house quartz movement. What'south even meliorate is that this high-performance, energy-efficient engine has a battery built to last 6 years – twice as long equally regular batteries.
Design-wise, the bezel with its distinctive screws – a design chemical element found on the 1904 original – makes a triumphant comeback after years of absenteeism. To further modernise the watch, Cartier stretched out the Roman numerals on the dial, giving it a sleek, elongated profile.
If the Santos-Dumont is the dapper dresser, and so the Santos de Cartier is its spunkier, swaggering cousin with more than pronounced lines and a sportier overall aesthetic. Several variations are available (yellow aureate, pinkish gold, steel, steel-and-gilt), although the model with the blue dial (available only in steel) stands out from the pack. The lustre emanating from the radial sunburst gradient dial is a sight for sore eyes.
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The chronograph model is another stand-out, not least because of the left-paw positioning of the start/end button (the reset function is integrated in the crown) that makes information technology easier to operate the stopwatch using the thumb. This is thanks to the apply of a new in-business firm movement, 1904-CH MC, which has a column-bike structure with vertical clutch, features typical of high-end chronograph movements. With this evolution, information technology's clear that Cartier is ending its reliance on ETA movements.
If a industry movement isn't enough of a technical feat for you, there'south also the skeleton model. This serial features a stripped-down, bare-bones aesthetic that reveals the watches' beating hearts: Meticulously finished manual-winding movements.
What we appreciate about, notwithstanding, are the QuickSwitch machinery and EasyLink systems that are available on the Santos de Cartier collections. Introduced in 2018, QuickSwitch makes it a cinch to remove the bracelet without whatsoever tools, so you can swop betwixt leather straps and metal bracelets depending on the occasion, the weather condition, and, well, your mood. The EasyLink organization, meanwhile, lets yous add or remove links with the simple push of a push on the underside of each link, making for easy adjustment of the bracelet length.
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