Grain de Café or Sunflower
Cartier · Harry Winston
Grain de Café
The coffee bean, full and grooved down its middle, cast in gold and gathered into clusters.
New York produced the Sunflower in 1950: Harry Winston's motif is eight matched stones around a round brilliant, mostly diamonds in platinum. Cartier's Grain de Café, drawn in Paris by Jeanne Toussaint in 1938, found its public in the same decade, with Grace Kelly among its wearers, and a 1955 necklace was reissued in 2023. Toussaint's bean, unlike Winston's flower, is mostly gold.
| Fact | Grain de Café | Sunflower |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1938 | 1950 |
| Designer | Jeanne Toussaint | — |
| School | Place Vendôme | New York |
| Materials | yellow gold, white gold, platinum, diamond, tourmaline | platinum, diamond, sapphire, ruby |
| 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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