An exhibition beyond boundaries

4 min read As the first luxury brand to hold large-scale exhibitions in China, Cartier has travelled the country, from the first exhibition in Shanghai in 2004 to Beijing, Taipei, Shenyang, Chengdu and back to Shanghai in 2014 Now, ten years after the hugely successful Cartier Treasures in the Palace Museum, Cartier returns to the Forbidden City with the largest show ever in the brand's history.

More than 800 pieces dating from the Ming Dynasty to the present day have been brought together, with objects from the Cartier Collection, the collections of the Palace Museum and loans from public institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Qatar Museums and the Musée International d'Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, as well as private and royal collections The idea for the exhibition originated with a restoration project, jointly conducted between 2014 and 2017 by the Palace Museum and Cartier Showing how influences can be mutual, it showcases Chinese-inspired Cartier clocks and European-style timepieces from the Palace Museum's collections.

Two gravity clocks, one from the Palace Museum's collections and the other from the Cartier Collection, symbolize an extraordinary similarity of form and function in instruments that measure time One of his clocks from the Musée International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds, on loan for the first time, stands alongside the mystery clocks of Cartier. . Source