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The quatrefoil and the flower

Le Petit Cactus or Calla

Mellerio · Vhernier

Le Petit Cactus ring with five rose gold cactus flowers of spiky stamens, each centred on a white, brown or yellow diamond, on a cream ground
Image © Mellerio

Mellerio

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.

Calla

Vhernier

Calla

One smooth cone, furled like a calla lily, hung alone on a necklace whose clasp disappears.

Le Petit Cactus is all stamens, a small burst of rose gold around a single stone, after the vanilla cactus flower that opens for one night a year; Laure-Isabelle Mellerio drew it in 2019 and scatters it on fine chains and studs. Calla is all spathe, the one furled sheath that gives the lily its shape, made by Vhernier as a single smooth cone in rose or white gold, or in ebony, and hung alone.

Mellerio Le Petit Cactus vs Vhernier Calla, facts side by side
FactLe Petit CactusCalla
Introduced20191998
DesignerLaure-Isabelle Mellerio—
SchoolPlace VendômeMilan & Valenza
Materialsrose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, otherrose gold, white gold, wood, diamond
MovesNoNo
From€440Not published
Top of line€4,100—

Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.

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