I already have the Cartier Santos Galbée XL in my collection, and I’m not too fond of blacked-out watches. So I thought I had nothing to fear from the stainless steel Cartier Santos-Dumont with its black lacquer dial and case finish. Well, I couldn’t have been any more wrong because this watch is a true […]

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More often than I would like, I find myself in a discussion about the resale value of a watch. I’d rather discuss why someone wants a watch. To understand where their connection and attraction to a specific timepiece comes from. But perhaps, for some people, the resale value is one of their reasons. Another topic […]

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As a trained anthropologist, I’ve always been taught that you should tell people what your starting point is. So I’ll also do that in the case of this hands-on with the large Cartier Santos in both green and blue. As you might already know, my Cartier Santos Galbée XL is one of my favorite watches. […]

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Let’s start with a bit of mindfulness before we answer the question of whether conglomerates are eroding the origins of luxury watchmaking. The ultimate luxuries in life are gratefulness and contentment. You can’t buy them, yet their availability is unlimited for those who are open to them. Material luxury, on the other hand, is the […]

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More than once, I’ve come across comments below articles and posts that try to measure the success of a watch brand by the resale value of its watches on the pre-owned market. But does it make sense to measure a brand’s performance this way? Is there a link between the revenue of a watch brand […]

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All right, the moment is here. My time has finally come to choose and tell you about my “go anywhere, do anything” watch. I’ve tried to postpone this decision because I feel it’s a very difficult one to make. After all, I feel like different occasions ask for a different watch on the wrist. That’s […]

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Picture this. I was sipping a glass of champagne with a Dutch author on fashion, design, and history while on the second floor of Cartier’s new boutique in the poshest shopping street in Amsterdam, P.C. Hooftstraat, looking at the shop window of a French fashion house that shall remain unnamed. The mannequins in the window […]

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My Cartier Santos Galbée XL (reference 2823 from 2006) and Rolex Explorer (reference 114270 from 2004) are both stainless steel sports watches. Both of them have quite iconic dials, and both also look best on their original bracelets. But still, the two are not often compared to each other. Maybe that’s because Cartier and Rolex […]

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Platinum is the heaviest of precious metals. It’s hypoallergenic and unaffected by water and air. At the same time, it’s also one of the rarest precious metals out there and is 30 times rarer than gold. This also means we need to be careful not to exhaust the earth’s platinum stock. That’s why it might […]

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In general, I do not consider myself a purist when it comes to watches. However, I will raise an eyebrow or two regarding fashion brands entering the industry of luxury mechanical watches. And honestly, it’s more a story of believing in specialist brands rather than being turned off by a fashion brand and its image. […]

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