Sunflower or Le Petit Cactus
Harry Winston · Mellerio
Sunflower
Eight matched stones ring a single round brilliant like petals around a seed head, laid out with a compass for strict symmetry.
Le Petit Cactus
The flower of the vanilla cactus, which opens for one night a year, made as a small burst of rose gold stamens around a single stone.
Scattered or centred: Mellerio strews the 2019 blossoms of Le Petit Cactus, bursts of rose-gold stamens around one stone, along fine chains, studs and rings, after the vanilla cactus that flowers one night a year. Harry Winston's 1950 motif is a fixed rosette, one round brilliant and eight matched stones in compass-drawn proportions, all in platinum. The cactus flower descends from a botanical painting by Redouté for Marie-Antoinette; the Sunflower descends from a New York studio's geometry.
| Fact | Sunflower | Le Petit Cactus |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1950 | 2019 |
| Designer | — | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio |
| School | New York | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | platinum, diamond, sapphire, ruby | rose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, other |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | Not published | €440 |
| Top of line | — | €4,100 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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