The New Cartier Santos Watch Review

It had been in 1904, when pocketwatches remained as in fashion for gentlemen

That pioneering aviator and bon vivant Alberto Santos-Dumont contacted uncle, Louis Cartier, about fashioning for him a timepiece he could put on, and appearance time, and keep both of your hands around the controls of his aircraft. The timepiece that Cartier designed for Santos-Dumont, using its distinctive square bezel, isn't just considered by most historians because the first men’s watch it had been even the progenitor of today’s Cartier Santos, among the watch-and-jewellery giant’s most long lasting and influential timepiece collections. This season, at SIHH 2018, Cartier unveiled a revamped Cartier Santos collection for modern times.

Initially glance, the brand new Santos de Cartier models look just like the earlier versions: the square-formed bezel

Inspired by Parisian architectural style of the age, remains intact, combined with the bezel’s eight visible screws and also the dial’s elegant Roman numerals. But a closer inspection reveals a sleeker, more ergonomic situation and bezel shape, and something that flows more seamlessly in the lugs towards the straps and bracelets.

About individuals straps and bracelets: they represent another decidedly modernized feature from the new Santos watches

And something that is an increasing trend among luxury watchmakers. They're engineered with Cartier’s new patent-pending QuickSwitch system, which helps the wearer to merely press a concealed button to rapidly replace each bracelet or strap. Other brands, like Vacheron Constantin and Hublot, have introduced similar self-strap-altering technology, but Carter goes them one better with another patent-pending mechanism, known as SmartLink, so it uses on its metal bracelets. This enables a Santos wearer to re-size his watch easily without needing something (or having to pay a wrist watch repairman to get it done for him). In the touch of the mouse found on each link, its attachment bar is unlatched and also the link could be added or removed.

The m0vement within the situation (two sizes can be found, 35.1 x 45.9 and 39.8 x 47.5) can also be decidedly contemporary: Cartier ‘s self-winding Caliber 1847 MC (the numeral represents the entire year of Cartier’s founding), featuring anti-magnetic nickel phosphorus components within the escapement and movement mechanisms, plus a shield produced from a paramagnetic alloy. Together, they render the movement effectively up against the effective magnetic fields a wrist watch encounters during daily put on.

Additionally towards the models outfitted using the automatic 1847 MC caliber, Cartier is providing skeletonized versions from the new Santos, operated by another in-house-manufactured movement, the manual-winding Caliber 9619 MC, that is notable for that large Roman numerals (particularly the “III,” “VI,” “IX” and “XII”) created by its bridges.

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