Cartier has an extensive history and experience with watch-making and design.Their designs have always managed to be classic and modern at the same time. It is no exaggeration to say that a Cartier watch can always be relied upon to make a fashion statement. If you want to know more about Cartier, read on for 8 interesting facts!

The Cartier brand started out as a jeweler but produced its first timepieces in 1904. In 1904,Louis Cartier first designed a watch for his friend, and aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont who asked him to make a watch that he could strap onto his wrist in flight. Louis Cartier created the Cartier Santos watch, with a square case. This prepared the ground for Cartier’s first commercial production of wristwatches. 

Although Cartier Santos was first produced as a commissioned piece in 1904, they  didn’t go on sale to the general public until 1911.

It’s Cartier which made wristwatches popular in the beginning of the 20th century. 

Cartier is known to have produced timepieces for several royal families.

Cartier watches are universally known to be very elegant and dressy looking. 

Cartier offers a very wide range of luxury products – Swiss luxury watches being one of them. The purpose of Cartier is to produce exquisite, tasteful and elegant timepieces and jewelry.

Cartier replica has remained so special because they have always made wristwatches in a variety of shapes, round, square, tortue, tonneau, rectangular, and oval, rather than limiting themselves to one or two shapes. 

Today the Cartier manufacture at La Chaux-de-Fonds is one of the largest vertically integrated watch production units in Switzerland. Cartier is one of the few brands to achieve sales exceeding one billion Swiss francs per year, in third place after Rolex and Omega, and preceding Longines and Tissot.