One morning in 1975, the eccentric Mexican actress, Maria Felix, pushes the doors of the Cartier boutique, rue de la Paix in Paris, with a wicker basket in her hands.
The sellers know well this client, Francophile and crazy about reptiles, who already has a beautiful collection of jewelry from the house featuring snakes, including a pair of yellow and turquoise gold hoops, with ruby eyes, and a platinum necklace and diamonds of masterful flexibility, hyperrealistic in its proportions, which required two years of labor in the workshops.
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This time, the creator of men and diamonds wants a model in the shape of crocodiles and takes out of her basket a small living specimen to inspire the designers of Cartier!
It is impossible to verify if the story really unfolded like this, but what is certain is that the spectacular and naturalistic result - a necklace made up of two crocodiles biting their heads, covered
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