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Juste un Clou bracelet, classic model, in yellow gold: a nail curved into a bangle, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Cartier

Cartier · 1971

Juste un Clou

A single gold nail bent round the wrist until its head lies beside its point.

From €1,070on the Cartier site, October 2026

Introduced
1971 — Sold first in New York as the Nail bracelet; relaunched as Juste un Clou in 2012 for Cartier's 165th anniversary.
Designer
Aldo Cipullo
Idea
The screw and the bolt, the gold band
School
Place Vendôme
Materials
yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond

Juste un Clou at Cartier

The story

Two years after the screw, Aldo Cipullo turned to the nail at Cartier New York in 1971. Cartier renamed the piece Juste un Clou and brought it back in 2012 for the house's 165th anniversary, growing it into rings, earrings, torque necklaces and diamond-set bangles.

The ladder

  1. Entry Mono boucle d'oreille Juste un Clou, mini modèle, or jaune €1,070
  2. Signature Bracelet Juste un Clou, modèle classique, or jaune €8,800
  3. Top of line Bracelet Juste un Clou, double, semi-pavé, or gris €96,000
  4. High jewelry Collier Torque Juste un Clou, modèle extra-large, pavé, or gris €575,000

Prices as published by Cartier in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • LOVE bracelet, classic model, in yellow gold with a row of screw heads, on a pale grey ground.

    Answers · 1971

    LOVE, Cartier (1969)

    Two years after the screw bracelet, Aldo Cipullo bent a single nail round the wrist, so the hardware became the whole form.

  • Clash de Cartier ring, medium model, in rose gold: rows of spikes around a central band of square studs, on a pale grey ground.

    Answered by · 2019

    Clash de Cartier, Cartier (2019)

    Cartier's taste for hardware turns punk: square studs, spikes and beads set in a mesh that moves under the finger.

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