Steel and Gold (Launch Model)
Santos Carrée Santos de Cartier (1978) — Steel and Gold (Launch Model)
1978–?
The 1978 original: steel case and bracelet with a polished yellow-gold bezel and yellow-gold screws punctuating the steel links; white dial with black Roman numerals, secret signature, blued sword hands and date at three. One of Cartier’s more affordable watches at the time.
Groups catalogued examples whose four-digit reference is not stated; numbered references (2960, 2961, 2964) are listed separately. Antiquorum catalogues the large model as 29 × 29 mm (29 × 41 mm over the lugs) and the PM as 24 × 24 mm.
Identifying details
Variants of Santos de Cartier (1978)
Reference overview →| Variant | Production |
|---|---|
| Steel and Gold (Launch Model)Current | 1978–? |
| Steel, Date | 1978–? |
| Yellow Gold Santos Carrée GM | Undated |
| Yellow Gold Santos Carrée GM · Diamond-Set Indexes and Crown | Undated |
Case & movement
- Reference
- Santos de Cartier (1978)
- Production
- 1978–?
- Case material
- Two-tone
- Case size
- 41 × 29 mm
- Movement
- Automatic
- Caliber
- Cartier 077 — 25 jewels, as catalogued by Antiquorum
Dial, bezel & hands
- Dial colour
- White
- Hands
- Sword
Unknown attributes are left out rather than guessed.
Movement
Cartier 077
Self-winding date calibre, rhodium-plated with fausses côtes, in the 1997 Hong Kong handover Tank Américaine.
Automatic · 25 jewels