Cartier Santos Iced Out – Two-Tone Diamond Pavé Case & Bracelet Arabic Numeral Diamond Dial Date

Santos Iced Out. Two-Tone Steel & Yellow Gold. Full Diamond Pavé Case & Bracelet. Eastern Arabic Numeral Diamond Dial. Date. Cartier.

The Cartier Santos Iced Out in Two-Tone Steel and Yellow Gold with Full Diamond Pavé and Eastern Arabic Numeral Dial is the most spectacular, culturally charged, and visually overwhelming expression of one of the most historically significant watch designs in existence — a piece that takes the Santos, the world’s first purpose-designed wristwatch (created by Louis Cartier for aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1904), and elevates it to a level of diamond and gemstone saturation that places it firmly in the territory of high jewellery and contemporary collector culture. The Santos de Cartier is Cartier’s most historically significant watch — predating the wristwatch as a category, its square case, exposed screws on the bezel, and integrated bracelet having defined the visual language of the luxury sports watch for over a century. This iced-out configuration takes the Santos to its absolute extreme. The case is in two-tone steel and yellow gold — the Santos’s characteristic combination of polished steel and yellow gold hardware — with every surface of the square case, bezel, and lugs completely covered in round brilliant diamond pavé, the stones set so closely that no metal surface is visible, the entire case a continuous field of white diamond sparkle. The bracelet is fully iced: every link of the Santos’s signature integrated bracelet is covered in round brilliant diamond pavé, with yellow gold baguette/princess-cut centre stones of exceptional size running in a line down the centre of the bracelet from clasp to case, and flanking the crown area — the yellow gold of the large baguettes creating a warm gold accent against the white diamond pavé of the surrounding links. The Santos’s iconic exposed screws are visible on every link, now set against the diamond-paved surfaces. The dial is a full diamond pavé surface with Eastern Arabic/Indic numeral hour markers — the hour positions marked in the Eastern Arabic numeral forms (١, ٢, ٣…١٢) in black script against the diamond pavé ground, a rare and highly collectible dial variant of extraordinary cultural specificity and collector demand, produced for the Middle Eastern market. A date window sits at 6 o’clock. The hands are in black sword/épée form. The crown is set with a black sapphire cabochon in the Cartier tradition.

• Brand: Cartier
• Model: Santos de Cartier “Iced Out”
• Configuration: Two-tone steel and yellow gold
• Case & Bracelet: Full round brilliant diamond pavé on all surfaces
• Centre Stones: Yellow gold baguette/princess-cut diamonds down bracelet centre and crown surround
• Dial: Full diamond pavé with Eastern Arabic/Indic numeral hour markers in black script
• Hands: Black sword/épée hands
• Date: Date window at 6 o’clock
• Crown: Black sapphire cabochon
• Detail: Signature Santos exposed screws on bracelet links
• Gender: Unisex (men’s / women’s)

Full diamond pavé case and bracelet, yellow gold baguette centre stones, Eastern Arabic numeral diamond dial, black sword hands, date window, Santos exposed screws, black sapphire crown — the most spectacular and culturally significant iced-out Santos ever produced.

Why You’ll Love It

• ✔ Cartier Santos — the world’s first wristwatch, the most historically significant watch design in existence
• ✔ Full diamond pavé case and bracelet — every surface covered in round brilliant diamond sparkle
• ✔ Yellow gold baguette centre stones — large-format stones running the full length of the bracelet
• ✔ Eastern Arabic numeral dial — rare Middle Eastern market variant of extraordinary collector demand
• ✔ Two-tone steel and gold — the Santos’s most classic and celebrated configuration
• ✔ Exposed Santos screws on iced bracelet — the iconic Santos detail preserved in diamond
• ✔ Date complication at 6 — practical functionality in the most spectacular package
• ✔ Black sapphire crown — Cartier’s defining cabochon crown detail
• ✔ A generational grail — the iced Arabic Santos commands the highest premiums in the collector market