Écrin

The single stone

Cartier Destinée or Joséphine

Cartier · Chaumet

Cartier Destinée solitaire in platinum: a brilliant-cut diamond inside a halo of small diamonds on a pavé band, on a pale ground.
Image © Cartier

Cartier

Cartier Destinée

A solitaire circled by a halo of small diamonds set so lightly that they seem to float free of the metal.

Joséphine Aigrette pendant, rose gold, pearls and diamonds
Image © Chaumet

Chaumet

Joséphine

A diadem shrunk to the finger: a pear-cut stone rising from scrolled arcs, the way an aigrette rises from a tiara.

Light surrounds the stone in Destinée; ornament lifts it in Joséphine. Cartier sets a circle of small diamonds round its centre stone so lightly that they appear to hover, a halo for a brilliant, pear, oval or emerald cut, or an oval emerald. Chaumet raises its pear-shaped stone instead on scrolled arcs taken from the house's diadems, the idea Lionel Giraud developed for the 230th anniversary in 2010. A halo for a bride, and a tiara reduced for the finger.

Cartier Cartier Destinée vs Chaumet Joséphine, facts side by side
FactCartier DestinéeJoséphine
Introduced—2010
Designer—Lionel Giraud
SchoolPlace VendômePlace Vendôme
Materialsplatinum, yellow gold, rose gold, diamond, emeraldwhite gold, rose gold, yellow gold, diamond, pearl, quartz, aquamarine
MovesNostacks
FromNot publishedNot published

Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.