Ballon Bleu de Cartier floral-marquetery parrot watch

For several years, Carier has been shaking up tradition with creativity and innovation while reviving rare and forgotten crafts. It has thus built up a formidable collection of exceptional watches.

This year Cartier has taken up a new craft in watchmaking: floral marquetry, which adorns and enlivens the dial of the Cartier Ballon Bleu watch.

A watch at the crossroads of two kinds of craftsmanship: the one, never before seen in watchmaking, immortalises flowers and their vulnerable beauty; the other, that of the jeweller, enhances the dial’s precious nature.

When the two combine, a kind of alchemy occurs, resulting in an explosion of colour: there is the blue and the orangey-yellow of the plumage, the deep black of the beak, the emerald green of the eye and the sparkling white diamonds in the background of the dial and on the crown.

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