Eva Mendes for Cartier Love Day

For over 30 years, the Cartier “Love” bracelet has been a symbol of passion, goodwill and style. The bracelet design is one of the most rocognisable and coveted styles avaialble. With the Love campaign, Cartier supports a host of charities ranging from Breast Cancer Research to UNICEF and the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust amongst others. This year, with the help of hollywood belle Eva Mendes, Cartier announced their fourth-annual “Love Day” initiative on June 11th, 2009. The event was held at the Cartier Mansion at 653 Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street. Continue Reading… »

Jennifer Hudson Back on Top – with Cartier Jewels

The Grammy Awards took place last night and star songstress Jennifer Hudson arrived with Cartier jewels in tow. Hudson, who was a nominee at the awards ceremony, walked the red carpet in this high collar, color block cocktail dress from RM by Roland Mouret, paired with cobalt blue suede Christian Louboutin heels. To top off her radiant look, Hudson went with dangly diamond earrings and a diamond bracelet, both by Cartier. In this image, her engagement ring is apparent, and there is no lack of diamond brilliance on her finger either! Continue Reading… »

Anne Hathaway Glitters in Cartier Jewels at the SAG Awards

Sunday night was a big night for everyone in Hollywood, especially for nominee Anne Hathaway who attended the Screen Actors Guild Awards wearing Cartier jewelry. This young lady has a lengthy career ahead of her, and already she knows the ropes with Cartier. Continue Reading… »

Cartier Roadster Chronograph: A Stylish Luxury Watch That Captures The Car-Watch Connection

Among Cartier’s extremely popular Roadster watches, it is the chronographs that perhaps best capture the essence of the collection.  The sleek tonneau form and alluring metal contrasts which make the Roadster timepiece so attractive are given added visual punch by angled chrono pushpieces, the large bullet-shaped winding crown and stylish Roman dials that gain allure through the presence of three subdials. 

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Cartier Tortue Minute Repeater Watch: Mechanical Rarity Cradled In Art Deco Elegance

 Henry Graves Jr. would surely be pleased.  The Cartier Tortue Minute Repeater is just the sort of watch the reclusive early 20th century banking magnate and art collector would have added to his astounding collection of extraordinary bespoke timepieces.  In fact, it looks a great deal like a beautiful tonneau-shaped platinum minute repeating wristwatch which Patek Philippe made to order in 1928 for the distinguished collector.

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Cartier Santos Triple 100: The Watch With Three Faces

One of the most delightful and charming Cartier watches to debut this year, was the Santos Triple 100.  A particularly precious version of the venerable Cartier Santos design, the Triple 100 incorporates a dial system of mobile white gold prisms, which are linked to miniature gear trains.

What does this mean?  Turn the crown, and you can select between three unique identities–a classic Roman numeral face, a field of alternating black and white round brilliant diamonds, or the soulful, intense stare of a tiger. 

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Celebrate Love Day with Cartier Love Charity Bracelets

Cartier’s 3rd annual Love Day Celebration is set for this Thursday, June 19th, with a huge celebration at Chicago’s Cartier boutique on Michigan Avenue. The newest celebrity sponsored charity bracelets will be unveiled, with this year’s design featuring two intertwined links fashioned of 18k white gold and 18k pink gold, both engraved with Cartier’s signature Love logo. Cartier will donate proceeds from each bracelet sold to the celebrity ambassador’s charity, as well as donating a percentage of sales from the first three days the bracelets are up for sale. This year’s colors, ambassadors and charities are: Continue Reading… »

Edward Norton Turns Green – The Incredible Hulk

Edward Norton, better known for his roles in Fight Club, The Italian Job and more recently, The Illusionist, is careful when he picks projects, and has appeared in a myriad of movies that are off the mainstream path. A celebrity well known as a philanthropist and environmentalist, Norton has made an important partnership with Cartier, with the brand’s green Love bracelets, which benefited the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He supports BP’s Solar Neighbors program, as well as being an activist for low income communities and other social activist organizations. Perhaps it is fitting for Norton to portray a role in which his character turns green, as he is actively representing alternative energy and ecological causes, but let’s hope that every person who is living green, doesn’t turn into The Hulk!

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Cartier Vintage Earrings: Yellow Gold and Ruby Earrings

Typically, when we think of Cartier jewelry we think of lots of brilliant diamonds set in white gold. We tend to forget about the many jewelry pieces Cartier has and continues to create in yellow gold with colored gems such as rubies, emeralds and sapphires. As a luxury jewelry maison, Cartier has always offered jewelry with an array of gemstones. While some jewelry houses specialize in one stone and one metal, Cartier does it all and with exact precision, high quality craftsmanship and sheer art and elegance. Continue Reading… »

Cartier Cirque Animalier Watches – Fanciful Works Of Art Perpetuate Delightful Cartier Specialty

A great specialty of the house of Cartier is extravagant, fanciful haute joaillerie design in the form of various animals; a particularly famous example is the c.1975 yellow gold Crocodile necklace made for Mexican actress Maria Felix.  Carrying on this delightful theme for 2008, Cartier has shown their gorgeous Cirque Animalier watches, which depict the elephant, the tiger, and the panda Continue Reading… »