Grain de Café or Les Pétales Place Vendôme
Cartier · MIKIMOTO
Grain de Café
The coffee bean, full and grooved down its middle, cast in gold and gathered into clusters.
Les Pétales Place Vendôme
Cupped rose petals of pavé diamonds drift against a round pearl, as if blown across the Place Vendôme.
A pearl is the given at Mikimoto, where Kokichi Mikimoto first cultured one in 1893, and Les Pétales Place Vendôme sets cupped diamond petals around an Akoya or South Sea pearl as if blown across the Paris square. Cartier's Grain de Café begins with gold instead, a full coffee bean drawn by Jeanne Toussaint in 1938, grooved, clustered, and since 2023 edged with diamonds and made in two tones.
| Fact | Grain de Café | Les Pétales Place Vendôme |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1938 | — |
| Designer | Jeanne Toussaint | — |
| School | Place Vendôme | Tokyo |
| Materials | yellow gold, white gold, platinum, diamond, tourmaline | white gold, rose gold, pearl, diamond |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €7,900 | €7,200 |
| Top of line | €371,000 | €66,000 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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