Modernahab
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Mere days after a long post on my selling/trading history...
Another trade. ;-)
This, (Santos de Cartier XL, SS, green dial WSSA0062) towards this:
Santos Dumont XL SS & Rose Gold LE, W2SA0025.
I traded because the Santos Dumont speaks to me more of what Cartier is about. Don't get me wrong - I think the Santos de Cartier is a great design. With its mass, though, and especially on the steel bracelet, it reads to me as "sports watch", in many ways analogous to the Genta steel bracelet crowd, if at a much lower price and level of finishing. The Santos Dumont, running on a Cartier-rebranded Piaget caliber 430P, is far more slender and elegant. Nobody would mistake it for a sports watch - especially in any of its gold-enrobed guises. The bezel and the crown, moreover, reflect the original early 20th century Santos from which the entire collection sprang. My respect for Cartier, already ample, was bumped up a notch after seeing the huge retrospective exhibit in London this past summer. In the context of Cartier as a jewelry-and-watch firm, the slender, precious metal-adorned Santos Dumont seems to me a more exemplary expression of the house's history.
Normally, I'm no fan of two-tone cases. In fact, there is only one other two tone watch I can recall finding attractive: the Glashütte Original SeaQ Panorama Date in steel with a rose gold bezel and gray dial - a very different kind of watch. (And also on my Want List.)
Mere days after a long post on my selling/trading history...
Another trade. ;-) This, (Santos de Cartier XL, SS, green dial W SSA0062) towards this: Santos Dumont XL SS & Rose Gold LE, W2SA0025. I traded because the Santos Dumont speaks to me more of what Cartier is about. Don't get me wrong - I think the Santos de...
Huge congratulations 🎉🎊🎈
A very cool addition to your collection and a trade I can well understand, especially as I like you am not a huge fan of two tones - this one works, though 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is a sublime and elegant watch, congratulations!
Posting my GO since you have mentioned it in the post ...
You wear it well!
Great wrist shot, too. I have to dig out and charge my digital SLR and stop taking macro shots with my phone. The results are just crap.
