Cartier

Cartier is a famous jeweller and watch manufacturer. Cartier was founded in 1847 in Paris by Louis-FranÁois Cartier. His grandsons Louis, Pierre and Jacques were mainly responsible for establishing Cartier as a world renowned brand. Louis made famous the legendary mystery clocks, high fashion wristwatches and exotic orientalist Art Deco designs, including the boldly colourful "Tutti Frutti" jewels. After the death of Pierre Cartier, Jean-Jacques Cartier (Jacques's son), Claude Cartier (Louis's son) and Marionne Claudelle (Pierre's daughter headed the Cartier affiliates in London, New York and Paris respectively (in 1964).

The Cartier collection includes jewellery, watches, leather-goods, accessories and fragrances. In jewellery, materials like platinum, yellow gold, white gold, link gold and 3-gold are used. The Cartier jewellery collection comprises of rings, bracelets, charms, chains and brooches. The different stones used in watches and jewellery include diamonds, precious stones, fine stones and pearls. Cartier is known worldwide for its watches and offers watches in small, medium, large and extra large sized models. The watch collections include Cartier D’Art and Cartier Libre, Tortue. The leather product line includes bags, purses, wallets, card holders, briefcases and belts. The leather used by Cartier varies from exotic leather, patent leather to suede leather and furry calf leather. Some of Cartier’s famous perfumes are Declaration, Pasha De Cartier and So Pretty De Cartier.