Grain de Café or Hortensia
Cartier · Chaumet
Grain de Café
The coffee bean, full and grooved down its middle, cast in gold and gathered into clusters.
An empress and a film star hover behind these two. Hortensia, which Chaumet made in 2013 under Claire Dévé-Rakoff, honours Empress Joséphine's gardens at Malmaison with hydrangea florets in pink opal, angel-skin coral and pavé. Grain de Café counted Grace Kelly among its wearers in the 1950s, less than twenty years after Jeanne Toussaint gave Cartier the coffee bean in 1938, a grooved gold form gathered into clusters.
| Fact | Grain de Café | Hortensia |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1938 | 2013 |
| Designer | Jeanne Toussaint | Claire Dévé-Rakoff |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | yellow gold, white gold, platinum, diamond, tourmaline | rose gold, white gold, yellow gold, diamond, opal, sapphire, ruby, coral, tourmaline, mother-of-pearl |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €7,900 | Not published |
| Top of line | €371,000 | — |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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