Rotonde De Cartier Wood Marquetry Watch

The art of enhancing tradition

RONDE LOUIS CARTIER REGARD DE PANTHÈRE WATCH

With the Ronde Louis Cartier Regard de Panthère watch, Cartier reaffirms its commitment to preserving and innovating artistic crafts developed at the Maison des Métiers d’Art. By saving know-how and talents and innovating with combinations of techniques and materials, the Maison gives rise to new practices.

The Ronde Louis Cartier Regard de Panthère  presents two different faces. Entirely divided into a grid pattern, the watch dial reveals the head of a panther. Every single square of this miniature chequerboard was painted separately by an artisan. The incredibly precise grid pattern reproduces the animal’s coat in all its nuances and shadows. The design emerges from this composition of precious pixels: the panther is alive and well, staring with beady eyes.

In the dark, the feline’s eyes glow and glisten. Super-LumiNova® is combined with the pigment, to release energy that is charged by the light. Brilliant-cut diamonds and tessellated mother-of-pearl marquetry enhance the preciousness of the composition, creating a bridge between artistic crafts and jewellery.