Cartier

Luxe For Your Eyes Only

Timeless aesthetics and luxurious precision.

Santos de Cartier, Panthere de Cartier, and Trinity de Cartier collections all feature high-end craftsmanship. Cartier shines again both men’s and women’s sunglasses this spring-summer season.

As a jeweller of eyewear, Cartier applies the same procedures as with its jewellery pieces. Its craftsman-like approach places the material at the heart of the creative process. Acetate, a cellulose-based material, is worked at Cartier in the same way as wood, horn or gold.

Lacquer

A delicate craft process, lacquering consists of depositing the lacquer by hand with a brush or a syringe into a recesses hollowed from the metal. Lacquered piece is then over-dried for three hours. Then lacquerer goes on to grind and polish the piece, before diamond-polishing it, until the lacquerer is truly levelled. This jewellery skill is used in the production of the panther head in the ‘Panthere Wild de Cartier’ frame where each of the animal’s spots is crafted from black lacquer made flush with the metal.

Cartier Wood

Among the pioneers in the use of wood in eyewear, Cartier began using this material in 1992. Noble, it requires many skilled interventions such as cutting, polishing, machining and finally varnishing, which gives it a shiny appearance and protects the surface. Each temple consists of 12 thin layers of wood glued and pressed together in a process called lamination used by Cartier to maximize the strength of each frame.

Horn

It can measure up to a meter but only a very small part of the horn meets Cartier’s criteria in terms of quality and aesthetics. The construction of thin strips layered crosswise ensures quality, resistance to warping and the stability of each frame.

Solid Gold

Cartier has an independent workshop in the Manufacture where work with precious metal in carried out. All Cartier solid gold frames are 18 carats. Cartier uses 3 tones of gold, worked with extreme thinness and delicacy.

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Spoil Your Eyes With Prescription Lenses In A Cartier Fashionable Frame

What could be more fashionable than dressing up your face by wearing your prescriptions on a fabulous Cartier frame? There is a store in Houston where you can find the most exquisite selection of Cartier sunglasses, which can also be turned into your perfect prescription frames. Briargrove TSO, right down the street from Galleria, carries a fabulos selection of Cartier Sunglasses and frames.

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