Watches & Jewellery
Take leave of your senses: Cartier's latest Sixième Sens high jewellery pieces
The latest additions to Cartier's high jewellery collection are all about visual illusions — and luscious, tactile sensuality.
Cartier has just unveiled the third chapter of its high jewellery collection, Sixieme Sens. This year, the collection plays on the artistic technique of trompe-l’œil — which literally means 'trick of the eye' — to create a delightful series of pieces that are as sensual as they are visually arresting.
Take the stunning Synesthésie necklace, for example. A luscious cascade of emerald and turquoise balls are juxtaposed with brilliant-cut or square diamonds in a way that brings the eye down to the central 35.47 ct Colombian emerald.
Tactility was also a key point in the collection: In the collarbone-grazing Bérénice necklace, diamonds and black lacquer paving create an effect akin to ocean waves, all blurring toward a central 16.43 ct Colombian cabochon-cut emerald.
