CARTIER BAIGNOIRE SKELETIZED BACK W8000002 vintage Boucheron Period: Late 19th CenturyYear: c

Period: Late 19th CenturyYear: c

Weighing an opulent 69 grams of 18k yellow gold

Fully Hallmarked and Numbered for Cartier London

A tiara made for British society maven Margaret Greville was eventually inherited by the Queen Mother in 1942

CARTIER BAIGNOIRE SKELETIZED BACK W8000002 vintage Boucheron Period: Late 19th CenturyYear: cThough officially released to the public in 1957, the Baignore finds its origins decades prior. In 1912, Louis Cartier himself conceived of a case based around the idea of two straight parallel lines closing into a pair of connected parentheses, with the end result resembling the look of a bathtub (or baignore in French). The finished product was gifted to Cartiers top client, Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia. Sadly, as she was one of the last members