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Watch Spotting Stephen Curry Wearing A Cartier Santos Skeleton Courtside

It turns out the Warriors star has some pretty next-level taste in horology.

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There are certain watches that we're pretty used to seeing courtside at basketball games these days. Hublot Big Bang chronographs, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshores of different kinds, a few variations on the Nautilus, and basically any Richard Mille you can think of. But something you don't see everyday? A skeletonized Cartier Santos. Saturday night in Dallas though, an injured Steph Curry was watching his team play the Mavericks from the bench and was rocking a rose gold Santos de Cartier Skeleton, clearly visible as he cheered on his teammates all night (including Talking Watches alum Andre Iguodala).

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When Cartier dropped the brand new Santos collection at SIHH 2018, they got a lot of people's attention. Even those of us (myself included) who had never really thought of the Santos as something they would want got excited. The watch took the best traits of the older Santos models and added just enough modern updates to give the watch a whole new life – these include a new bezel shape, more sculpted lugs, in-house mechanical movements, and a quick-change strap system. The skeleton models sit at the top of the new collection, with manually-wound in-house movements that are crafted so that the bridges actually form the Roman numeral shapes Cartier is known for. The large pink gold version Curry was wearing has an anthracite treatment to the movement, offering some additional contrast that pairs nicely with the grey alligator strap. 

For more, check out our full review of the new Santos de Cartier and the Skeleton version Curry was wearing too.

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