In 1906, Santos Dumont made the first powered flight in Europe and emerged from his plane checking a wristwatch, created for him by good friend Louis Cartier. It was designed as an alternative to the watch-fob and as Santos was a fashion icon, he started the wristwatch trend immediatly. In 1978, Cartier launched the Santos de Cartier watch, which mixed gold and steel and made a feature of the gold screws, turning horology on its pompous head.
- Movement: Quartz.
- Functions: hours, minutes, seconds, date.
- Case: matt steel, with Ion Plating Gold (IPG) coating insertions.
- Mineral-crystal glass.
- Caseback on 8 screws.
- Dial: silvery, guilloche, with roman hour markers.
- Strap/Bracelet: steel, lock is a clip.
- The price of the original: 3710 Euro.
- No docs and box
