Late 20th centuryCase: yellow gold and stainless steel, 22 mm diameter Bracelet: original Cartier leather strap with original Cartier stainless steel claspDial: white with sapphire glassCase number: 090205711Numbered: Cartier 079Caliber: ETA 2671Accessories: presentation box, certificate and user guideGross weight approx. 22.7 gMovement not testedNote:In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people were strapping pocket watches to their wrists or fitting old movements into modified cases with straps, but the Santos was, from idea to initial execution, exclusively a wristwatch. Upon request, Louis Cartier made a special watch for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1904. As an inventor and aviator, Alberto needed a timekeeper he could check without taking his hands off the controls of his early aircraft. Alberto’s celebrity status made the men’s wristwatch a fashion icon overnight, and wrote the Cartier Santos into the history books. Most recently, there was the