Cartier Report

I In all our discussions about vintage Cartier, we have only briefly touched on the subject of the Cartier Mystery Clocks. Louis...

As you are aware, I have been tracking the prices of Cartier Crash watches for some months. Little did I ever imagine, I would be...

An astute observer asked why I had not included this brooch in my analysis of recent sales and prices. I mean, he's absolutely right. ...

As always, the weeks leading up to Christmas are jammed with auctions…whilst I cannot review every sale or lot, I thought I would mention...

Another of the 1991 Cartier, Paris Crash watches sold in Hong Kong at the weekend for US $ 125,000.00. This is only a couple of weeks...

Now here's a different kind of beauty. A racing pigeon called New Kim. She was fought over by two Chinese buyers this week until one won,...

Can someone please answer this question? Why did this mid-1920s Lacloche powder compact sell for £ 150,000 (US $ 198,000) this week at...

The Cartier turtles made around US $ 125,000 altogether. They were such fun and chic. I am not sure how many people wear brooches today...

There are thirteen jewelled Cartier 'Turtle' brooches being sold by Christie's today. All from the 1950s. The turtle is the universal...

As predicted, the Cartier multi-gem 'Hindou' bracelet made $ 1,200,000 (CHF 1,110,000). This is the price for these bracelets. Because...

One hundred years apart in time but remarkably similar in ambition, here are two men, one who influenced Cartier in the past and one who...

Only in May, I wrote about an early 1990s Crash Watch making a dizzying $ 125,000 in Hong Kong. How the records need to be re-written as...

Cartier loved all manner of 'hidden' elements which were incorporated into the designs of jewellery, watches and objets d'art. First,...

T The last 'bijou Hindou' (or commonly called Tutti Fruitti) bracelet was sold last May (see an earlier mention in this report). The...

This very rare and unusual Cartier, Paris diamond clip brooch made a rather dizzying price in Paris this afternoon. Before thinking too...

An incredible pair of yellow gold 'grain de cafe' bracelets made by Cartier, Paris in the early 1950s. Jewellery made using gold 'coffee...

Christies New York sold this fellow named 'Stan' yesterday for $ 32 million! Amazing..wonderful..mad!

In Hans Nadelhoffer's seminal work 'Cartier, Jewellers Extraordinary' published in the early 1980s, it is odd he missed including this...

If anyone has any doubts about the extravagance which gripped the world during the 1920s, you need to look no further than this amazing...

From The Daily Telegraph Sat 29th August 2020