Cartier launches 2024 Cartier Prize for Watchmaking Talents of Tomorrow

Cartier launches 2024 Cartier Prize for Watchmaking Talents of Tomorrow

06 MAY 2024

The Cartier Prize for Watchmaking Talents of Tomorrow, created exactly thirty years ago by the Institut Horlogerie Cartier to recognise apprentice watchmakers in Switzerland, France and Germany, has just opened its 2024 call for applications. This year's edition, on the theme of Magic of the Senses, incorporates several new aspects.

A trailblazing Prize that is still second to none

Since its inception in 1847, Cartier has strongly supported the transmission and perpetuation of its know-how, as well as the honing of new skills, in accordance with its tradition of excellence.

In 1993, Cartier founded Cartier Watchmaking Institute (CWI) in Couvet, Switzerland to train future watchmakers. The CWI trains apprentices and craftspeople from the Cartier Manufactures in areas such as watchmaking, polishing, microtechnology and mechanics. The pioneering Institute has become a reference in research and support for the next generation of watchmakers.

The watchmaking Prize was created in 1995 in direct response to the impetus to nurture vocations and ensure the continuity of savoir-faire and craftsmanship. Primarily, it reflects the significance and consistency of Cartier's commitment to promoting powerful and unique watchmaking, where technical excellence goes hand in hand with boundless creativity.

Each year, this remarkable Prize invites young watchmakers to transform a movement around a given theme. Awards are bestowed both for technical brilliance and creative flair.

"Cartier has always considered that it had an obligation to foster vocations and to nurture talent in order to pass on and promote its watchmaking vision and its commitment to the excellence of the expertise it embodies. Created thirty years ago, the Prize is an outstanding demonstration of this undertaking, and an excellent means of standing alongside the men and women who wish to enter this compelling profession, and who will form the next generation of watchmakers", explained Karim Drici, Cartier's Manufacturing Director.