A veritable collection of jewellery timepieces featuring 41 pieces, including 23 unique editions, the Heures Fabuleuses de Cartier make light of reality...
Enchanted tales to be told as time is transformed, the stage for a spirited bestiary whose secrets and tricks conjure a time that is more than it seems. A collection that proclaims, like a Surrealist manifesto: “This is not a watch”. Yet time is their destiny, diverted along the way, for the fun of it, the love of intrigue. A very feminine seduction from the most extravagant jewels, amazingly precious, inscribed in the Cartier tradition of ingenious watchmaking yet poised for transformation, the guarantee of supreme elegance. These watches are uniquely two of a kind – a jewellery performance when a diamond snake slips off the face to glide over a lapel as a brooch. And what hides behind this tortoise-shell studded with diamond scales?
Illusion, now you see it, now you don’t – Cartier is a watchmaking wizard with the gift of conjuring up extraordinary pieces. The most precious watches, jewels of excellence and savoir-faire: the expertise of the watchmaker, who makes a diamond phoenix oscillate in time with the movement, and the skill of the jeweller, who transforms a chain into a delicate brooch.
Playing on an apparition, miracles of jewellery, Cartier pictures a metamorphosis of time, watches that can play any role, now a brooch, now a pendant, now a watch – or all three at a time. Tripling their functions for a fantastically playful bestiary, a snake, a frog, an elephant, the elusive heroes of a watchmaking fable where time is the jewel in the crown.
D.C.
