Cartier Santos-Dumont

The Santos-Dumont collection is adding three new exclusive models to its repertoire.

Three highly colourful watches that pay tribute to the elegance inherited from Alberto Santos-Dumont. Their lacquer illuminates the dial and accentuates the bezel and the case. The three versions come in olive green and platinum, blue peacock and rose gold, or taupe grey and yellow gold. Each is coated with a thin layer of less than a thousandth of a millimetre of smoothed and hand-polished lacquer. Everything hinges on the finesse of this translucent lacquer, which adds brilliance, contrast and depth to the dial’s colours.

A metal arched frame punctuated with screws emphasises the square shape of the watches, these new models opt for Arabic numerals, the size and curves of which echo the rounded corners of the emblematic Santos-Dumont dial. Delicate craftsmanship is at the service of a subtle and sophisticated aesthetic that perpetuates the heritage of this great watchmaking classic with manual mechanical movement, calibre 430 MC.