This came this morning. I found it in the WUS classifieds.

My nephew that has the world’s greatest taste in watches, has both the Tank Louis Cartier and the Santos. While loving both of those- I’m super happy with the one i found. I do see an XL Santos in my future… maybe one with the blue dial.

I can’t believe how much I love it on my wrist. Also, after reading complaints in different places about the strap/deployment thing- I guess I’m the contrarion. I love it.

Now, I get it…

My First… NOW I get it…

I’m surprised there wasn’t more media buzz around the release of Tank Must Solarbeat V2 since Nov 2024. I guess that worked exactly as how Cartier hoped for with a quiet release.

I myself was pretty bummed when I heard the the Tank Solarbeat was discontinued due to manufacturing constraint and issues with the movement. I always wanted one.

Then just this week I learned about the Solarbeat V2 through a friend. And of course, I had to pick one up.

Now…

Solarbeat V2 is here!

I didn’t start out to buy a Santos. In fact I started out to by a rectangular-ish dress watch. As things usually start out I was looking at sensible candidates which started with the Hamilton American Classic Boulton! Then I decided on either the Boulton OR a Longines Dolce Vita. I was able to actually LOOK at the Boulton and thought it was slightly small and couldn’t locate a Dolce Vita in my area. Then I was like….BOTH of these are really a copy/homage of a Cartier Tank!

Of course I…

So I bought a Santos!