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The single stone

Cartier Destinée or Mellerio Cut

Cartier · Mellerio

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.

Mellerio Cut ring in white gold: an oval-shaped diamond in a halo of small diamonds on a pavé band, seen from above on a cream ground
Image © Mellerio

Mellerio

Mellerio Cut

A diamond cut of the house's own, a softened oval that carries the memory of the Beau Sancy, worn alone inside a fine halo of pavé.

With a pavé halo on each ring, the difference lies in the stone it surrounds. Destinée accepts the familiar cuts, brilliant, pear, oval or emerald, or an oval emerald, and sets the halo so lightly that it seems detached from the metal. The Mellerio Cut supplies a shape of its own, a softened oval the house connects to the Beau Sancy and to Marie de Médicis, patron of the family in the seventeenth century. Cartier refines a setting. Mellerio signs a stone.

Cartier Cartier Destinée vs Mellerio Mellerio Cut, facts side by side
FactCartier DestinéeMellerio Cut
SchoolPlace VendômePlace Vendôme
Materialsplatinum, yellow gold, rose gold, diamond, emeraldwhite gold, yellow gold, diamond
MovesNoNo
FromNot published€10,700
Top of line—€37,000

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