Buy a Rare Cartier Watch With Golden-Era Hollywood History
A diamond- and rock crystal-encrusted timepiece inspired by film legend Gloria Swanson is up for sale on an online vintage site.
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In the year 1930, actress Gloria Swanson bought a set of rock crystal and diamond bracelets from Cartier and wore them in films that marked two very different eras of her film career: Perfect Understanding and Sunset Boulevard.
The first was filmed five years after she left her lucrative contract with Paramount Pictures and joined United Artists, the fledgling studio that was struggling in the new era of "talkies."