Introducing an all-new Cartier Dumont Microrotor Collection
The Santos Dumont Collection was born out of a larger revamp of the Santos Collection. On one side, you have the ultra-sleek sporty natured Cartier de Santos Collection, while on the other side, you have the more elegant and refined, dressier Santos Dumont Collection. Today, Cartier unveiled a new entry into the Santos Dumont collection with the skeletonized Santos Dumont Microrotor Collection - A slick, flight themed skeleton watch that comes in 3 different flavors.
THE BASICS:
Brand : Cartier
Model : Santos Dumont Microrotor
Case Material : 18k Pink Gold, Yellow Gold, and Steel
Case Size : 31mm x 8mm
Water Resistance : 30m
Movement : Cartier calibre 9629 MC
Movement Specs: Automatic, 3.5-Hx, 44-Hour Power Reserve
Strap Options : Alligator Leather Strap
The Juice:
Some would argue that the Santos Dumont was one of the first purpose driven flight watches. There’s been many evolutions of the watch over the course of the years, but this release feels firmly rooted in the brand’s flight watch history. For starters, the microrotor features a motif of the Demoiselle - A plane designed my Dumont himself. The skeletonized movement features 212 parts held together by bridges that also act as the watches indices. This prevents a lot of obstruction, and puts the movement on full display. In fact, it took the brand 2-years to develop the 9629 MC and they want to you be able to gaze at damn near all of it.
The watch comes in 3 flavors, a steel, a yellow gold with navy lacquer, and a rose gold model. The clear frontrunner as far as fan favorites go is the yellow gold and navy lacquered model. Unfortunately, it’s limited to 150 pieces. Cartier has been doing lacquer work on their watches since as long as the brand has been around. And there’s just something clean and unique about the piece that helps it to stand out and the level of precise decoration to lacquer at this level is quite the feat.
Overall, this is an incredibly cool release from Cartier. The all new Calbre is gorgeous, and utilizing it in the Santos Dumont case is simply a classy move. The watches are large enough to showcase the craftmanship required for such a stunning piece, but not too big that it can’t slide under a cuff. We love it.
HOW MUCH IS THE CARTIER DUMONT MICROROTOR?
Price for the steel version is $30,100 USD. Price for the Rose Gold model is $39,250 USD. And price for the Yellow Gold with Navy Lacquer is 40,450 USD. You can read more about this release at cartier.com.