Creating Cartier Blog

It was enlightening - in more ways than one - to attend Watches & Wonders, in Geneva last month. Focused on high end luxury watchmaking, this trade show has been running for over 3 decades.

Had an unexpectedly fascinating experience recently. Visiting a watchmaker to discuss antique Cartier watches, we ended up taking apart a few of them.

What an incredible trip to the land of pearls. Almost seems surreal.

One hundred and ten years ago, Jacques Cartier arrived in Bahrain for the first time. “My dear Louis,” he wrote home to his brother, “if I have understood correctly, the most important mission bestowed on me during this trip to the East is to investigate the pearl market and to report back on the most effective way for us to purchase pearls.”

One of my favourite stories from the early days of Cartier in 13 Rue de la Paix is the one I unexpectedly discovered about Madame Ricaud, the first woman to work in the building.

If someone had told me a few years ago that my book would be in Le Monde and @lefigarofr (the same week no less) I would never have believed it.

Super exciting to open @lemondefr this weekend and discover this full page review of Les Cartier (2nd image)!

Launching Les Cartier in Paris 📕
#lescartier #thecartiers #cartierparis #cartier #cartierfamily #cartierjewelry #artcurial #paris

Fun - and rather surreal - for this to land on the doorstep!

Like so many, I've been shaken and really saddened by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. What an incredible monarch, and indeed person - in so many ways.

Design inspiration - going behind the scenes in Jacques Cartier’s library… #jewelrydesigners #cartierlondon #bandeau #diamondjewellery #jacquestheodulecartier #jewellerydesign #cartierjewelry

In celebration of the platinum jubilee, here’s the story behind this necklace that the 25-year- #QueenElizabethII wore 70 years ago in her first official portraits as the new Queen (image credit @royalcollectiontrust )

From the moment I met the legendary Cartier designer Alfred Durante, he welcomed me like family.

It’s not often one has the time to really slow down and sit and listen - and learn - for days, rather than minutes, at a time.

With just 1min and 3 seconds of today’s online @loupethis auction to go, the world record making bid for a #Cartierwatch was made…it was a #cartierlondon #crashwatch

Well that was fun...
Thank you to all who joined Kieran McCarthy @wartski1865 (in the Fabergé corner) and me (team Cartiers) as we battled it out @vamuseum in our Rivals on Bond Street talk.

A weekend game. Both made over a century ago, one of these owls is Cartier, the other Fabergé.

With chilly booster queues replacing Christmas parties, masked carol concerts and many holiday plans in disarray, perhaps we could all do with some bejewelled escapism. On the theme of a cold midwinter, it surely doesn’t get much better than this Fabergé Winter egg?

To kick off December, a glimpse behind the scenes of Christmas in Cartier London 106 years ago.

‘The Persian style,’ my grandfather once explained to me, ‘was the purest influence on the Cartier style.’

Amazing to see interest in the Crash Watch continuing to snowball, not sure my grandfather would have believed it...