Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Cartier Santos. At the turn ...

Over the years, the Santos de Cartier has been worn by everyone from pilots to the character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street: its latest incarnation recognises that small is beautiful ...

This year, the house has reinvented the Privé Crash, Santos de Cartier, Baignoire and Myst de Cartier, and has brought back ...

If you're after a timeless watch design, the Cartier Santos is always at the top of the list. It wears its impressive age—120 years and counting—very lightly. The Cartier Santos watch was first ...

Sleepy Time: George Santos flexes his Cartier Santos watch during the voting for speaker of the the House of Representatives. International man of mystery George Santos reported for his first day in ...

Whether it’s a Renaissance painting, a pair of classic sneakers, or a luxury watch, every iconic design comes down to a handful of essential elements used in just the right way. With its clean lines, ...

In the Cartierverse, the Cartier Santos is a bonafide classic. Not only is it the first wristwatch made by the luxury jeweller and watchmaker, it very much kicked off Cartier’s steel sports watch era, ...

Watches come in many shapes and sizes, but the best of them have two things in common: a fascinating backstory and an iconic design. As the jeweler of record to monarchs and movie stars for more than ...

“I've been calling the Cartier Santos the ‘It boy watch’ for the past two years, simply because so many guys in my social circle have recently gotten one,” Dimepiece’s Brynn Wallner tells me across ...

The wristwatch was the product of experimentation by two visionaries and friends: Louis Cartier and Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1901, Santos-Dumont took up a daring hobby – ...

It’s a peculiarity of dress watches—especially the smaller ones, and especially in gold—that in summer they stick out on a naked forearm like stilettos on a vicar. Which makes them an ideal go-to for ...

This week, the Palexpo facility in Geneva, Switzerland, will become the center of the watch world for the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, or SIHH, a luxury watch show rivaled only by ...