This was a chic and very flat watch with an extremely clean look that works great with formal wear.
This was a very different Santos-Dumont, powered by a mechanical caliber by Piaget and without the signature bezel screws that marked all the previous models. Cartier’s Santos-Dumont 90 years onīelatedly celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the Santos-Dumont, in 1996 Cartier launched 90 watches in platinum with a salmon-colored dial, Breguet-style hands, and a white gold folding buckle.Ī new, larger model was released in 2005, one that was not part of the Collection Privée Cartier Paris line and the first Santos-Dumont model with what’s known as a TV-shaped case (slightly elongated). The mechanical movements were in general supplied by EWC (European Watch & Clock Co./Jaeger-LeCoultre).Īt that time, the majority of Tank and Santos watches were delivered on a light brown or black pigskin leather strap with a gold folding buckle and they were more or less always available in the Cartier collection in one shape or another.Īside from the fact that the Santos-Dumont was the first pilot’s watch, the deployant buckle that Cartier developed in 1909 was another first: for many years it was the only folding buckle on the market. And when the Santos-Dumont finally arrived in the Paris store, it was offered in several different model variations, all made in platinum or yellow gold and all in a fairly small (by today’s standards) case measuring from about 24.8 x 34.8 mm.
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