Cartier · 1938
Grain de Café
The coffee bean, full and grooved down its middle, cast in gold and gathered into clusters.
From €7,900on the Cartier site, October 2026
- Introduced
- 1938 — Returned to boutiques worldwide on 1 June 2023 after a few pieces appeared in December 2022.
- Designer
- Jeanne Toussaint
- Idea
- The quatrefoil and the flower
- School
- Place Vendôme
- Materials
- yellow gold, white gold, platinum, diamond, tourmaline
The story
Jeanne Toussaint introduced the coffee-bean motif in 1938, and it found its wearers in the 1950s and 1960s, Grace Kelly among them. Cartier brought it back in 2023 with a reissue of a 1955 necklace, then built a line of two-tone gold beans edged with diamonds.
The ladder
- Entry Bague Grain de Café, diamants, or jaune, or gris €7,900
- Signature Bague Grain de Café, diamants, or jaune, or gris, 0.19 ct €10,300
- Top of line Collier Grain de Café, or jaune, or gris, diamants €184,000
- High jewelry Collier Grain de Café, semi-pavé, or jaune, platine, diamants €371,000
Prices as published by Cartier in euros, October 2026.
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Sources
- vogue.sg origin
- thezoereport.com year note
- robbreport.hk origin
- cartier.com materials
- cartier.com ladder
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