Is Cartier Toussaint's Necklace Real?

If you've watched the all-female cast that made the well-famed movie "Ocean's 8" events - you've probably noticed how big a role fashion plays during its events.

Along with the cast of Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, Awkwafina and Anne Hathaway, couture, diamonds and designer pieces starred.

Toussaint's Necklace appears at the center of the events of Ocean's 8, as Sandra Bullock's Debbie Ocean devises a plan to have actress Anne Hathaway wear it by Daphne Kluger to the Met Gala held annually at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where she will be robbed, and she puts together a women's team to carry out the largest robbery ever.

But the necklace that Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna and all the heroines of the Ocean 8 movie know as "Toussaint" is in fact based on a historical design for French jewelry house Cartier, and it was reworked specifically for the movie at a cost of up to $150 million, according to the British Telegraph newspaper.

In 1931, the Indian Maharaja of Nowanagar summoned the French jewelry designer, Jacques Cartier, to design a necklace for him to showcase his enormous wealth ".

The original necklace contains 7 of the world's rarest diamonds, and it appears in many of the Maharaja's portraits but disappeared after his death in 1933, and is believed to have been dismantled and used in a number of other designs.

It took the jewelry designers about eight weeks in the Cartier jewelry workshop in Paris to make the replica of the necklace, and re-design it based on a number of photos and drawings, with the addition of some modifications.

And they modified the design to suit the actress "Hathaway", and reduced its size by 15 to 20%, as the original necklace was designed to fit a man, and they also replaced the colored diamonds with non-colored, unreal ones, from natural zirconium oxides inside white gold.

Although the necklace in the movie is not real, many of the other jewelry that appears in key scenes are original Cartier designs, which the Maison has contracted to be the exclusive jewelry partner for the movie.

Filming began on October 25, 2016 in New York, and was shown on June 8, 2018.

Translated by Ahmed Moamar