Cartier honors the talents of tomorrow
Established in 1995, the Cartier Prize for Tomorrow's Watchmaking Talents now opens its doors to the world of jewelry and simply becomes the Cartier Prize for Tomorrow's Talents, bringing together two competitions under one name.
While the watchmaking aspect retains its principle, namely to reinterpret a movement around a specific theme, it expands its scope to include Swiss, French, Belgian, and German candidates, with Sweden being added this year. For its first edition, the jewelry aspect is aimed at students from France, Italy and Switzerland who have at least two years of training. Young talents from both disciplines will have to work on a common theme: "Cartier's Wild Fauna". A vast playground for this house, which has always been designing panthers, tigers, crocodiles and other animal figures. On the watchmaking side, it will need to be tamed around an imposed movement, the 1847 MC, a nod to the year the house was founded; on the jewelry side, the challenge will be to bring an animal to life on a brooch. The terms are summarized in a few figures: applications from 1 October to 30 November 2026; eight finalists per trade; a maximum of 80 hours of work over three months, supported by a mentor of their choice; a logbook composed of sketches and photographs to be submitted with the project. Three winners per discipline will be awarded during a ceremony to be held in spring 2027, in front of a jury comprising professionals both internal and external to Cartier. This is a new milestone for this house for which transmission is a fundamental value, and which has always been passionate about identifying and training the young talents of tomorrow.