Cartier Clash de Cartier Bracelet (medium model)

A party in the Conciergerie

Cartier unveiled Clash de Cartier in Paris in April 2019. The centerpiece was a gala dinner in the Conciergerie, the medieval hall on the Île de la Cité where aristocratic prisoners, Marie Antoinette and Robespierre among them, were held during the French Revolution before execution. The room was set with three banquet tables some 300 feet long. Christine and the Queens performed, Billy Idol played an acoustic set, and guests included Rami Malek, Jake Gyllenhaal, Letitia Wright, Sofia Coppola, Tilda Swinton and Troye Sivan. The English actress Kaya Scodelario was the face of the campaign.

The launch ran for three days. The next day Cartier opened two pop-up spaces facing each other on the Place Vendôme, a bookshop and a temporary record shop, and staged 'clashing' performances: Beth Ditto sang an acoustic version of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' and Marisa Berenson performed Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise.' Lunch was served at a pop-up restaurant run by the New York culinary collective Ghetto Gastro.

The name was the idea. Cartier presented Clash as a play of opposites: soft yet structured, geometric yet fluid, spiky yet rounded. The first pieces were made in 18k rose gold. Prices at launch ran from £2,030 for a necklace to £44,900 for the most expensive piece, a coral bracelet.

A new pillar for an old house

Clash was the first major new jewelry line under Cyrille Vigneron, who became Cartier's chief executive in 2016. It followed his relaunches of the Panthère watch in 2017 and the Santos de Cartier in 2018. 'Probably, for the past 10 years, there has been nothing so striking and strikingly different,' Vigneron said at the launch. One British fashion writer who attended called it the biggest new debut for Cartier in a generation.

From the start, commentators measured Clash against the house's best-known designs: the Trinity ring of 1924 and the Love bracelet, designed in New York in 1969 by Aldo Cipullo. Pierre Rainero, who directs style at Cartier, has been careful about that comparison. Iconic status, he has said, is not declared but conferred over time: 'The Love dates from the 1960s, Juste un Clou from the 1970s. Clash was born only a few years ago.'

Rainero describes the design as a reworking of studs and clous carrés that Cartier used on watches and accessories in the 1920s and 1930s, given a sharper and more defiant attitude. 'Jewelry engages all the senses,' he said, 'what you see and also what you feel on the body and to the touch.'

Spikes that move

Clash is built from three house motifs: pointed studs, round beads and clous carrés, literally 'square nails.' Cartier's own pages name that third motif both clous carrés and clous de Paris. On the bracelet they form what Cartier calls a geometric moving mesh. The pieces are not rigid. Each stud is mounted on an internal mechanism that lets it shift slightly, so the bracelet feels fluid against the skin despite its ridged look. Writers at the launch noted that the moving elements are technically difficult to make, and therefore hard to copy.

Reference B6065717 is the medium model in rhodiumized 18k white gold, 8 mm wide in size 17. Cartier's U.S. site offers it in sizes from 14 to 21 cm and notes that dimensions vary with the size ordered. The same medium bracelet is made in rose gold and in rose gold with diamonds.

The collection has grown since 2019. Cartier has added colored stones, among them red and green agate, pink chalcedony and black onyx, along with extra-large pieces, a flexible version of the bracelet, all-yellow-gold designs and modular ways of wearing them. One ring is wide enough to span three fingers. Rainero has noted that the larger, bolder pieces appeal to men as well as women. 'Men are enjoying more freedom in their style,' he said. 'Clash speaks to the notion of freedom and there is something assertive in the design.'

What it costs, and what it brings

Cartier has raised the U.S. price of this bracelet at least twice since 2023. Before April 18, 2023, the medium white gold model listed at $9,900 in the United States. That day it rose 10.1 percent to $10,900. Cartier left the whole Clash line unchanged in its May 14, 2025, round of increases, then raised this bracelet 12.8 percent to $12,300 on September 25, 2025. Cartier's U.S. site still listed it at $12,300 on October 1, 2026. These are asking prices for a new bracelet, not sales.

European prices moved less. In September 2025 the same bracelet rose from 11,700 euros to 12,100 euros, an increase of 3.4 percent.

Resale prices are far lower. A medium Clash bracelet in 18k gold, weighing 43.79 grams and sold without box or papers, brought $3,011 in an online auction on June 4, 2024. The seller did not state the gold color.

The numbers

Carat weight

None; this reference has no gemstones

Color and clarity

Not applicable (no stones)

Origin mine

Not applicable; Cartier does not state gold sourcing on the product page

Cutter

Not applicable

Metal

Rhodiumized 18k white gold (750/1000)

Width

8 mm at size 17

Timeline

1. 2016

   Cyrille Vigneron becomes Cartier's chief executive.

2. Apr 2019

   Cartier launches Clash de Cartier in Paris with a gala at the Conciergerie and pop-ups on the Place Vendôme; first pieces in 18k rose gold.

3. Aug 6, 2019

   A British magazine calls Clash the biggest new debut for Cartier in a generation.

4. Apr 18, 2023

   U.S. price of the medium white gold bracelet rises from $9,900 to $10,900.

5. Jun 4, 2024

   A pre-owned medium Clash bracelet sells in an online auction for $3,011.

6. May 14, 2025

   Cartier leaves the Clash line unchanged in a round of U.S. and European price increases.

7. Sep 10, 2025

   European price of the medium white gold bracelet rises to 12,100 euros.

8. Sep 25, 2025

   U.S. price rises 12.8 percent to $12,300.

9. Oct 1, 2026

   Cartier's U.S. site lists B6065717 at $12,300.

The world in 2019

• Jan 22, 2019

  France and Germany sign the Aachen Treaty.

• Mar 16, 2019

  Yellow vest protests against President Emmanuel Macron enter a fourth month in Paris, with news stands burned on the Champs-Élysées.

• Apr 15, 2019

  A major fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; its roof and spire collapse.

• May 14, 2019

  The Cannes Film Festival begins.

• May 26, 2019

  France votes in the European Parliament election.

• Aug 4, 2019

  Franky Zapata flies across the English Channel on his Flyboard Air.

Price record

This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown. Asking prices often sit above what buyers pay, but an ask is not a ceiling: a sale can land on either side of it. It is not a value.

By reference price, Cartier Clash de Cartier Bracelet (medium model) is number 66 of 100 in the jewelry entries of the FLOAT 100. 44 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (47 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.

Did you know

• Clash was launched in the Conciergerie, where Marie Antoinette was held before her execution.
• Billy Idol played an acoustic set at the launch dinner.
• Each stud on a Clash piece sits on an internal mechanism that lets it move slightly.
• Cartier skipped the entire Clash line in its May 2025 U.S. price increase, then raised this bracelet 12.8 percent four months later.
• Notre-Dame Cathedral burned in Paris days after Clash was unveiled.
• One Clash ring is wide enough to span three fingers.