Cartier Santos-Dumont XL Hand-Wind Watches For 2020 Now Also In Steel

We feel like we could write a book on Cartier watch design evolution - but we'll spare you that and instead will shift focus right away to the new-for-2020 Cartier Santos-Dumont XL Hand-Wind watch collection, a range of three new watches, all with a Piaget-derived hand-wound movement, lowered prices, and now a steel variant The Cartier Santos has played a major role in carving the path not only for pilot's watches, but also for men's watches, in general Great watches in their own right, they all lacked some of the delicacy of the earliest Cartier Santos watches.

That trend continues in the Cartier Santos-Dumont XL Hand-Wind watches for 2020, which are available in three variations: 18k pink gold, two-tone with 18k pink gold and steel, and an all-steel variant If you want to save at least a few thousand dollars - if neither winding your watches nor hiring a Watch Butler is a possibility for you - then you'll be happy to learn that Cartier offers the Santos-Dumont in the "Large" size with a quartz movement and six years of autonomy Introduced last year, these "Large" Santos-Dumont pieces have case dimensions of 435mm by 314mm and a thickness of 73mm.

Getting back to the The Cartier Santos-Dumont XL Hand-Wind collection, my only small gripe with these, as a watch-lover, is the fact that the crown is your only interaction and your only indicator of the presence of a hand-wound movement To be fair, there's also "mécanique" written in small fonts on the caseback Pricing for the Cartier Santos-Dumont XL Hand-Wind watches is yet to be confirmed, but they should range around €4,700 for steel, a competitive €6,500 for two-tone, and €12,500 for the solid 18k pink gold version, and you can start hunting for one of these in Cartier boutiques starting in May A design of outstanding elegance, powered by a slim mechanical movement and encapsulated in nicely executed cases. Source