What I particularly like is to take the lead. Scraping cast iron, that’s a must, but that’s not why I do this job. No, I like to find solutions, to fight with the metal, to adjust it and tame it in fact. I don’t want to create, I want to make and therefore ask myself questions. I just want to be a good jeweller.
S., 4 years of school and in the workshop for one and a half years.
M. Cartier
I was an apprentice at a time that no longer exists. We had to arrive half an hour before the jewellers and leave after them. We had to set up the workshop and of course tidy it up and clean it after the day's work. I even slept in...