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… »

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 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… »

Cameron Diaz – Jewelry Retrospective

Since the days of The Mask, Cameron Diaz has been one of the It girls in Hollywood. She’s done movie after movie, from My Best Friend’s Wedding to Shrek to Charlie’s Angels to The Holiday and now, What Happens in Vegas…. Co starring Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas… is about Diaz’s character ending up married to Kutcher in Vegas and hitting the jackpot. A prank fest ensues, as both Diaz and Kutcher’s characters try to get the other to file for divorce to keep the winnings. Since this movie could be big hit for summer, we’re going to dissect Miss Diaz’s fashion and jewelry hits. Continue Reading… »

SIHH 2008: Cartier Roadster XL Watch Gets Luxurious Burl Wood Accents

The Cartier Roadster XL watch is now available accentuated by the rich warmth of burled walnut wood.  These models, presented in a choice of pink or white gold definitely lend a strikingly luxurious twist to the  popular Roadster collection.  While I’ve seen exotic wood used from time to time for the dials of high end watches, this is the first time I have seen it used to accent a metal bracelet.  It’s reminiscent of the fine wood paneling inside a luxury automobile, and gives the watch a unique appeal that is most distinguished.

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Cartier LOVE Charity Bracelet Supports 8 Charities

Cartier has added a new jewelry item to its LOVE collection: the Cartier LOVE charity bracelet.  The LOVE bracelet has a knotted silk rop with a pink gold center engraved with LOVE where the O is the signature screw emblem.

There are 8 different versions of the Cartier LOVE bracelet.  Each version has a different color silk rope that corresponds to a charity.  In addition, each bracelet and charity is being promoted by a different celebrity , each of whom is working in partnership with Cartier for this massive charity benefit.

Here are the celebrities and the corresponding charities and bracelets.

•  Rosario Dawson:   Youth AIDS, Red Bracelet
• Salma Hayek:   The Salma Hayek Foundation, White Bracelet
• Scarlett Johansson:   USA Harvest, Baby Pink Bracelet
• Spike Lee:   Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Purple Bracelet
• Edward Norton:   Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, Green Bracelet
• Sarah Jessica Parker:   UNICEF, Blue Bracelet
• Michael Stipe:   Mercy Corps / Gulf Coast Recovery, Black Bracelet
• Liv Tyler:   The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Deep Pink Bracelet

Cartier will donate $100 from the sale of each LOVE bracelet to its corresponding cause.

The Cartier LOVE Charity bracelet can be purchased at Cartier boutiques while available.