Solitaire 1895 or Joséphine
Cartier · Chaumet
Solitaire 1895
One stone raised on four claws above a plain band, the house's barest answer to the engagement ring.
Joséphine
A diadem shrunk to the finger: a pear-cut stone rising from scrolled arcs, the way an aigrette rises from a tiara.
Restraint against ceremony. Solitaire 1895 asks nothing of its setting beyond four claws and a plain band, Cartier's barest answer to the engagement ring, holding a diamond or a sapphire, ruby or emerald. Joséphine, created by Chaumet in 2010 for its 230th anniversary, borrows the whole vocabulary of the diadem, lifting a pear-cut stone on curling arcs like an aigrette on a tiara, in honour of the empress who was the house's most famous early client. One ring removes. The other remembers.
| Fact | Solitaire 1895 | Joséphine |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1895 | 2010 |
| Designer | — | Lionel Giraud |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | platinum, yellow gold, rose gold, diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald | white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, diamond, pearl, quartz, aquamarine |
| Moves | No | stacks |
| From | €930 | Not published |
| Top of line | €930 | — |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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