Cartier watch  But it was only in early 20th century that people started wearing watches.
In Korea, expensive wristwatches have long been a symbol of wealth. Watches mainly from Rolex and Omega were exchanged as wedding gifts between the bride and the groom in the 1970s.
Cartier watch  atch But high-end watches are no longer just wedding gifts here, according to Lee Ye-jin, a retailer at Galleria. “Many consumers buy luxury watches for themselves,” she said, noting that major consumers today are mostly men.
“To men today, watches reflect social authority and economic power.”
Around 60 percent of luxury watches are worn by men, retailers estimate.
Asian stocks fell on Cartier watch Thursday as weak U.S. retail sales highlighted the long road to economic recovery, prompting profit-taking on winning bets in equities, higher-yielding currencies and commodities over the past two months.
Cartier watch The retreat in Asian shares tracked the overnight drop on Wall Street after retail sales posted an unexpected drop in April and suggested that consumers were still struggling from job losses, falling home prices and tighter credit.
Cartier Watch:Creme de la Cartier
Rasheeda Bhagat
When you are travelling to Paris with your family that includes two sons aged 28 and 20 on their first visit to Europe, they are hardly likely to be seduced by an invitation to visit the French luxury jeweller Cartier Watch’s oldest and classiest showroom at one of the swankiest addresses in Paris — Rue de la Paix.
But they are somehow persuaded and, clutching the map, we make our way from the Louvre to the Cartier Watch showroom in a record 15 minutes, finding to our utter surprise that recession seems to have hardly dented business or at least the number of customers at this luxury retailer.
But, of course, there is more buzz outside the store than inside; almost every minute a woman stops by the show-window, gazing longingly at the display of a spectacular ‘panther’ necklace, done in sparkling diamonds, dazzling sapphires and an extravagantly huge blob of emerald shimmering between the panther’s paws. “Oh, this one costs around 2.62 million,” says Olaf Van Cleef, Cartier watch  High Jewellery Councellor, in answer to my unasked question.
He next shows us a ring made with an unbelievable 18.22 carat diamond with a staggering price tag of 4.5 million and I immediately stop trying to mentally convert the price to INR, deeming it a meaningless exercise anyway.
Even as he relates stories on how recession is a “difficult time” for Cartier Watch’s old customers, but has brought in several new customers — from those owning businesses in the Internet, food, telephones, and so on — he pulls out the Cartier trademark… the triple band, trinity or rolling ring, first made by Louis Cartier in early 20th century for the French poet Jean Cocteau in three interlocking bands of white, yellow and copper-brown gold.
This ring was supposed to evoke the three rings around Saturn. Since then it has almost become a cult jewellery piece and Van Cleef encourages me to try on the trinity ring, also known as “love ring”, this time studded with diamonds and costing 660.
It is surprising to find how snugly the three bands hug the finger, but the next stunning piece he urges me to try on is the triple band bangle studded with sparking diamonds. Carrying a price tag of over half a million euros, it hangs on my wrist, and to my frown, the jeweller responds sternly, “Ladies who can afford to wear such diamond bangles have much larger wrists.”
Cartier’s panthers
Sufficiently chastened, one reverts to the recurring panther theme in Cartier designs and learns that Jeanne Toussaint, one of Cartier’s chiefs in the fine jewellery department, came to be affectionately known as ‘panther’ because of her affinity for the big cat — be it in the motifs in her apartment or in her jewellery designs.
But even though Cartier watch  had been using the panther motif in its jewellery from 1915, it became a hallmark for the French iconic jeweller in 1948 when it designed the famous panther brooch for the Duchess of Windsor. The Duchess was fascinated by it and soon ordered other pieces with the panther motif and they became a sensation in the high-society world.
Here is an excerpt from the 1998 issue of the Professional Jeweler Magazine: “Ever a specialty at Cartier, the panther was revitalized in the 1980s when it appeared in a wide variety of jewellery, including watches, earrings, cuff links and new accessories such as pens, handbag clasps and perfume flasks. The panther is now a metaphor for the contemporary woman; sensual and self-assured with an underlying element of danger, hinting that care should be used in handling this exotic creature.”
The Duchess’s jewellery was considered cutting-edge fashion in her time and there’s a story that she had a rather large collarbone and was discreetly advised to wear large necklaces, the designs for which were inspired by the kind Indian maharajas wore!
To her credit she willed all her jewellery to the Pasteur Institute for AIDS research. And the panther brooch which came up for auction was bought back by Cartier.

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