The latest Beautés du Monde High Jewellery collection continues this tradition. It is a testament to this fascination with the diversity of beauty that is so dear to Cartier.

Texture and dimension, it is the skin of the green iguana that inspired the Maison’s design studios to create this jewellery set. It reveals its beauty through a necklace abundant with diamonds and emeralds. As is often the case with Cartier, the idea is not to imitate nature, but rather to suggest and convey an impression of it through an abstract composition. The central motif is made up of three uniquely-shaped Colombian emeralds weighing 43.45 carats: cabochon-cut hexagons with very pronounced edges. The facets of the cabochons multiply into a weave of openwork triangular motifs, set or paved with diamonds and emeralds whose location and orientation have been rigorously studied. Connected by tiny metal rings, these elements create a highly flexible necklace. This comfort is the result of the Maison’s genuine expertise.

It is one of the most mythical creatures in the Cartier menagerie, where it instils its voluptuous charm. A powerful and hypnotic snake whose beauty and incredible flexibility Cartier enhances through this new interpretation. It is water that inspires the jeweller’s choice of blue and white, the colours of sea foam and the sea bed where this oceanic reptile resides. Diamonds are everywhere: in tiny geometric patterns, in triangles aligned like a ridge, and on the pendant, consisting of two Ceylon sapphires separated by a sumptuous round rose-cut diamond. Scale motifs in lapis lazuli have been cut one by one to fit perfectly with the diamonds. This work is reserved for the most expert lapidaries, as this hard stone is a delicate material to cut. For Cartier, the reverse side must reflect the front, the inner side of the necklace features geometric patterns that evoke the cut of the diamonds on the ridge.

Cartier pays tribute to the beauty of ornamental pieces, and more specifically to traditional Mesoamerican jewelry, with the Rituel set. Composed of a double row of azure chalcedony beads, the necklace unfolds to reveal an iridescent constellation of rubies.

The miracle of an aquatic flower’s beauty is perfectly captured by Cartier. A stylized approach to a water lily, whose jewelry composition is akin to a sculpture. Cartier has imagined this flower floating, as if placed gently on a long necklace of lilac-colored chalcedony beads.