Écrou de Cartier or Force 10
Cartier · FRED
Écrou de Cartier
A slim gold cable cut with a screw thread and strung with hexagonal nuts.
Force 10
A length of braided steel marine cable closed by a gold shackle, named after a storm on the Beaufort scale.
Fifty-one years separate them, and both are cables. Force 10, from 1966, is the literal kind: braided steel marine cable closed with a shackle of yellow gold. Écrou de Cartier, previewed in Paris in March 2017, makes its cable of gold, cuts a screw thread into it and strings hexagonal nuts along it, following the screw of LOVE and the nail of Juste un Clou. Neither disguises its source: the cable still reads as rigging, the threaded gold as a bolt.
| Fact | Écrou de Cartier | Force 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 2017 | 1966 |
| Designer | — | Henri Samuel |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond | yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, steel, diamond |
| Moves | No | opens |
| From | €2,860 | €1,230 |
| Top of line | €24,200 | €24,710 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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