Burgundy Dial 2960 Cartier Santos Carrée

By Erik Gustafson | 4 May, 2024
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Lacquer dial in a Santos is a particularly strange and attractive thing. Like seeing Dame Hellen Mirren act her socks off in Fast & Furious. Or perhaps more relevant, like a beautifully dressed Stella dial Day-Date that chain smokes and surrenders. This dial was made to celebrate the Santos’s 75th, clearly not to legibly tell…

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Spider, Burgundy Dial 2960 Cartier Santos Carrée

By Erik Gustafson | 29 June, 2023
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Cartier has done the sports watch but once. It’s the Santos, and while whether the bracelet is integrated or not is a matter of debate, pretty much everyone agrees that the ref. 2960 is in the spirit of a Royal Oak, Nautilus, or 222. It’s as close as Cartier ever came. It is an aviator’s…

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