PERFECT BALANCE WITH EN ÉQUILIBRE
The latest High Jewellery collection by Cartier showcases harmony, as a glittering retrospective celebrates the Maison at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
by Gianfilippo Versari - ph. courtesy by Cartier
Balance is not stillness: it is movement turned into art, a play of opposing tensions merging into a fleeting, perfect moment. It is within this masterfully resolved tension that En Équilibre, the new High Jewellery collection by Cartier, comes to life, where delicacy meets strength, lightness embraces matter, and a line becomes a gesture.
The Maison unveils the harmony of the sublime. Each creation embodies a refined paradox: symmetries that dissolve into unexpected harmonies, ethereal hues giving way to bold chromatic contrasts, solids and voids that chase each other in a state of suspension. This is not mere aesthetics, it is a language. A silent code that speaks of proportion, absolute precision, and calibrated audacity.
This page, from left: Panthère Orbitale necklace in platinum, coral, amethyst, emeralds, onyx, and diamonds; Tsagaan earrings in white gold, onyx, and diamonds; and the Hyala necklace. Opposite page, the Panthère Orbitale ring
A single glance at the Hyala necklace, light as a breath of diamonds and sapphires upon the skin, reveals how the invisible can be as precious as the visible. Or lose yourself in the majestic Panthère Orbitale, where Cartier’s iconic feline stands proud atop a coral cabochon, radiating primal power.
Two suspended Zambian emeralds dance along Shito, a necklace of geometric purity with poignant depth. In Traforato, three octagonal emeralds bring rhythm and motion to a structure born of architectural imagination. Finally, Pavoncelle, with its 58.08-carat Ceylon sapphire, opens like a wheel of jewelled feathers, shimmering with movement and transformation.
Five necklaces, five rings, and the Summae parure, its linear design drawn as if in a single stroke, blend Cartier’s iconic colour
trio with the rare Troidia cut.
En Équilibre demanded over 100,000 hours of work: a tribute to the unmatched savoir-faire of Cartier’s artisans, timeless guardians of their craft. Each piece is a technical feat, a dialogue between form and substance, a perfect balance between dream and reality.
That dialogue continues beyond the jewel, within the halls of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, where A Century of Style and Influence marks the largest Cartier retrospective in the UK in over thirty years. Through more than 350 works, the exhibition, open until 16 November, retraces the journey of “the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers” from a Parisian workshop to a global symbol of luxury.
In this dreamscape, art and science intertwine like a flawless necklace, reminding us that beauty is never merely decorative, it is memory, symbol, language. Like En Équilibre, it is a gesture of grace, poised perfectly on the edge between the visible and the unseen. www.cartier.com
Clockwise from the bottom: Azulejo ring in white gold, sapphires, and diamonds; Summae ring with green emeralds, black onyx, and diamonds; and Panthère Dentelée necklace in white gold, emeralds, onyx, and diamonds