Lecture: 'Cartier in the Art Deco Era,' Nov. 12
Oct 21, 2002
The American Society of Jewelry Historians is hosting a lecture titled "Cartier in the Art Deco Era," on Nov. 12 at Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Center. Ralph Esmerian, a noted gemstone dealer will lead the lecture, which will start at 6 p.m. Esmerian is well known for his knowledge of jewelry history and is an avid collector of many objects, including Art....

Cartier Sponsors Santos-Dumont Watch Exhibit
Sep 01, 2002
Cartier this summer sponsored a special exhibition of the Demoiselle ("dragonfly") monoplane, flown by Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviation pioneer who, in 1906, became the first person to fly over Paris. The plane, on loan from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, N.Y., was displayed in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City during....

Retailer News
Apr 01, 1997
Cartier recently opened a new boutique in Boca Raton. The retailer already has boutiques in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.The new boutique, located in Town Center, includes jewelry, watches, silver, crystal, porcelain, pens, stationery, leather goods, fragrances, accessories and other gifts.Cartier now has 172 stores and 10,000 authorized....

Jewellery Arabia 2004
May 01, 2004
The 13th in a series of international exhibitions for the Middle East's fine-jewelry and luxury watch market—Jewellery Arabia 2004—will be held Oct. 5-9, 2004, at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre. The show provides international jewelry houses with access to the region's $30 billion jewelry market. It attracts trade buyers as well as....

Cartier offers reward for information on $5.5 million of stolen jewelry
Jun 27, 2001
Cartier is offering a $103,000 reward after a $5.5 million dollar raid at an airport warehouse in Essex, England, the BBC reported. It is one of the largest jewel thefts in British history, according to British police and published reports. Thieves escaped with 1,726 items, mainly watches, in the robbery at Rochford on 21 May.

Features: The Real Deal
Apr 01, 2003
Vacheron Constantin's Le Grande Classique. (Click image to enlarge) The silver lining of this controversial topic is that as collectors’ watchmaking knowledge grows, so does their passion for complicated watches. And if much ado is made of the most tangled complexity and tiniest detail . . . well, these are watches we’re talking about after all. A. Lange....

Industry Leaders Recognized by GIA
Feb 01, 2003
The Gemological Institute of America honored 10 of the institute's principal supporters at its 2002 League of Honor Founders Dinner in October. Former GIA president and chairman Richard T. Liddicoat, who passed away in July, was remembered and honored for his many contributions to the industry. The honorees, each of whom received the League of Honor....

Watch’s Couth – a new online watch shop
Apr 02, 2007
Watch's Couth is an online shop with the goal of allowing private customers as well as commercial players active in the watch sector to expose the watches they wish to buy or sell, in a simple and direct way, locally or around the world. The aim of this Internet platform is to facilitate the purchase, sale and exchange of watches worldwide without....

Fakebusters!
Jul 01, 2003
Tens of thousands of fake luxury watches with a street value of $1.5 million have been seized and a major U.S. watch-counterfeiting ring dismantled following raids and federal court actions, including a $4.8 million penalty, all prompted by a Cartier investigation. The watch-counterfeiting ring, involving several companies in New York's Chinatown section, is....

Icons & Innovators: Cartier: An Uncompromising Position
Jan 01, 2006
Challenging the absence of soul, detail, and uniqueness in mass-produced adornments that flooded the market after the industrial revolution, Cartier returned artistic spirit to its métier by encouraging creative freedom unencumbered by marketing or manufacturing efficiency concerns. Thus the house established a legacy of Art Deco masterpieces....