Sometimes you get an invite that you just can't refuse. I'm deep in research so trying to keep my head down right now but when the brilliant @sanjoykroy @JLFlitfestgot in touch to ask me to speak at the inaugural JLF Soneva Fushi Festival in…wait for it… the Maldives...I didn’t have to think too hard about it!
Read MoreDeep in the research for the next book. Always a high point when pieces of the past come together again.
Read MoreSome vintage Cartier birds to wish you a very Happy Easter. Any favourites?
Read MoreGreat to share stories about #TheCartiers@Cartier last week.
Read MoreWell 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.
Read MoreWith 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?
Read MoreTo kick off December, a glimpse behind the scenes of Christmas in Cartier London 106 years ago.
Read More‘The Persian style,’ my grandfather once explained to me, ‘was the purest influence on the Cartier style.’
Read MoreAmazing to see interest in the Crash Watch continuing to snowball, not sure my grandfather would have believed it...
Read MoreBack to 1960s London with this one... The Kinks in the charts (‘Dedicated follower of Fashion’), the British fashion scene leading the way, and the London Crash watch making its debut.
Read MoreA quick clip from last week when I tried out the technique of #perlage at the @JaegerLecoultre Reverso Stories exhibition in Paris, just before attending the #AtelierdAntoine workshop.
Read MoreThe Reverso has long been a popular watch design. It was the watch my g-father, #JeanJacquesCartier, wore when riding horses as its clever mechanism protected the dial while galloping through the countryside.
Read MoreIt’s rare that a large amount of Cartier vintage watches make an appearance at the same time but that’s what happened this weekend when 88 #cartierwatches all part of a single collection, appeared at auction in Monaco.
Read MoreJust attended the first Atelier d’Antoine #Reverso workshop in Paris by @JaegerLeCoultre who are celebrating the Reverso’s 90th birthday.
Read MoreRepost @bazaarindia - CARTIER AND THE MAHARAJA: In a Bazaar exclusive, Francesca Cartier Brickell, a descendant of the iconic jewellery family, retraces Jacques Cartier’s tryst with India that led the brand to fame.
Read MoreKenmore agreed to sell the diamond to Burton on one condition: before it was shipped to him and renamed, it would be displayed in Cartier New York as ‘The Cartier diamond.’
Read MoreThe 1969 battle between Richard Burton and Robert Kenmore (then the owner of Cartier NY) for a pear-shaped 69.42ct diamond ring.
This gold bracelet (known as the TV bangle) was rebellious in its shape, looked great with the fashions of the 70s and was less expensive than precious-gem jewels but it was still distinctly Cartier.
Read MoreAnother week, another record for vintage Cartier London. This time, the spotlight was on the Cartier Pebble (sometimes known as the ‘baseball’), which was up for auction yesterday at Phillips in Geneva with an estimate of CHF 50-100k.
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