“An charming jewel of the book.”-Douglas Smith, author of Former People: THE ULTIMATE Times of the Russian Aristocracy

The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global high end icon-as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives

The Cartiers may be the uncovering tale of the jewelry dynasty-four years, from innovative France to the 1970s. about The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family members Behind the Jewelry Empire At its heart will be the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “By no means copy, only generate” and who produced their family company internationally famous in the first times of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary skills: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to greatly help an aviator friend tell the time without acquiring his hands from the handles of his traveling machine; Pierre, the expert dealmaker who bought the brand new York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for the double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone professional whose travels to India gave Cartier usage of the world’s greatest rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, motivating the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry.

Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest from the brothers, provides traveled the globe researching her family’s background, tracking down those linked to her ancestors and discovering long-lost bits of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more.

The Cartiers offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry-the notoriously cursed Wish Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces-and the longer type of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Released in the two-hundredth anniversary year from the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history proven through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.