Animals have always found their place at Cartier which elevates their appearance and nature through their plumage, coats and scales as well as their grace, suppleness, vitality and vivacity.

Cartier is the only great jeweller to have incorporated a master of glyptic art into its workshops. Responsible for engraving and sculpting precious stones and noble materials: fossilised wood, amethyst, morganite and rubellite... An artisan capable of fashioning a form from a piece of quartz, a block of jasper or an agate.

Glyptic art, identified by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage, is a rare expert skill to be preserved and Cartier continues this tradition by passing it down to young apprentices.