Cartier Santos Owner Review : Historical, completed and chic

A watch with incredible charm, truly seductive. This watch shines, plays with the light, and compels you to admire it. It has an original look, its own identity, while remaining distinguished and very easy to wear. It goes with a wide range of clothing styles. Beyond its aesthetics, it is an important piece of watchmaking history and a piece of aviation history. The size may seem small on paper, but the proportions are truly perfect for a man's wrist. On a woman's wrist, choose the small or medium model. A flagship model of the house: In 1904, Louis Cartier created an innovative watch for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont. It joined the Cartier catalog a few years later and has remained there ever since. Santos-Dumont was an aviation pioneer, inventor, and pilot who achieved the first airplane flight. At a time when wristwatches were extremely rare and reserved for women, aviation pioneers improvised attachments for their pocket watches so they wouldn't have to take their hands off the flight controls. Daring but always chic, the dandy pilot asked his jeweler friend to create a proper wristwatch for him. This marked the birth of the first pilot's watch, the first "tool watch," and the first men's wristwatch available for sale... Reference 2961: Presented in 1978 at Le Bourget, this reference is a more modern interpretation of the traditional Cartier model. It differs from the classic and very dressy "Santos-Dumont" by bearing the name "Santos de Cartier." In the context of the emergence and popularity of luxury sports watches, it enjoyed great commercial success. Dimensions: 31 mm wide for this "Large Model" Movement: Cartier Caliber 077 (ETA 2971, automatic) Materials: Steel and gold (750/1000), blue sapphire on the crown Crystal: Sapphire Case back: Solid