Friday, 8 September 2017

The first pilot’s watch - Cartier Santos Dumont

The first watch was designed by Patek Philippe for the Countess Koscowicz of Hungary in 1868. Yet for decades it was worn only by women as a ‘montre bracelet’. While wristwatches gained widespread adoption by men after World War I, there were a few pioneers at the beginning of the 20th Century. “Pilots need a watch on their wrist for navigation – and the first pilot’s watch existed before World War I,” says Haussermann.

“Louis Cartier took a pocket watch and made it a wrist watch for a friend who was flying a plane in Paris, one of the earliest pilots.” Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first to demonstrate that controlled flight was possible – and he wanted to measure time intervals while keeping both hands on the controls.

Cartier’s watch had a contrasting dial “big enough that he could read the time at the first glance – this is what you ask for when you want a pilot’s watch, readability”. Santos-Dumont wore it every time he flew.

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