Cartier Santos Panther Skeleton Print Advertisement — Original Luxury Watch Ad
Approximately 8 x 11 inches.
This Cartier Santos de Cartier skeleton watch vintage advertisement is one of the French maison's most visually striking campaigns, featuring a leopard — Cartier's totemic big cat — standing atop the fabric wing of a vintage biplane as a second aircraft soars in the distance. The composition pays homage to Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aviator who inspired the original Santos watch in 1904, making this collectible ad a rare convergence of horological history and surrealist imagery. The skeletonized Santos dial with its blue hands and exposed movement floats against a dramatic open sky, capturing the fearless spirit the house has embodied for over a century.
What you see is what you get; the ad in the photo is the exact one that'll come to you. Listed sizes are close, but treat them as ballpark, not gospel.
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Go with custom framing and we'll reach out to design something that does the piece justice. We have examples from our own offices and from current clients to give you inspiration.
Every unframed ad rides safe: acid free sleeve, stiff backerboard behind it, another board up front, all tucked into a rigid photo mailer and sent USPS with 3-day tracking. It'll get to you the way it left us.