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Cartier’s most enduring motif isn’t a flower, a bird, or a butterfly. It’s a predator: a wildcat—fierce, mysterious, seductive. La Panthère has prowled the maison’s collections for about a century, shifting from high jewelry to fragrance, crossing eras and gender boundaries to become a symbol of the house’s craft.

Joe Lingeman Panthère de Cartier bracelets, Cartier.

On the red carpet, the motif has become a shorthand for power, laced with Parisian chic. Earlier this year at the Oscars, Zoë Saldaña, who made history as the first American actress of Dominican descent to win an Academy Award, wore the Panthère Versatile, a transformable choker in onyx and diamonds capped with a panther head and a 10.10-carat Zambian emerald. At the BAFTAs, Timothée Chalamet gave the panthe

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