Who owns Cartier?
Cartier is owned by Richemont (Switzerland, SIX: CFR).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Compagnie Financière Richemont SA Annual Report 2025, 16 May 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Compagnie Financière Richemont SA reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Geneva
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France, Paris
- Founded
- 1847
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Luxury goods › Jewellery & watches
- Parent ticker
- SIX: CFR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Cartier
Cartier was founded in Paris in 1847 and made the Santos in 1904, one of the first wristwatches designed for a man, for the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who could not check a pocket watch while flying. It is the largest brand in Richemont by a wide margin.
Ownership timeline of Cartier
Where Cartier sits in Richemont
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Richemont brand portfolio (13) →
Other brands owned by Richemont
Richemont controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
Also in apparel, footwear & accessories
- A. Lange & Söhne (1845)
- Alaïa (1979)
- Chloé (1952)
- Dunhill (1893)
- IWC Schaffhausen (1868)
- Jaeger-LeCoultre (1833)
- Panerai (1860)
- Piaget (1874)
- Vacheron Constantin (1755)
- Van Cleef & Arpels (1896)
Other brands in jewellery & watches, and who owns them
The 72 brands in jewellery & watches on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Signet Jewelers, with 9; Richemont has 8.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Banter by Piercing Pagoda | Signet Jewelers | 🇧🇲 Bermuda |
| CaratLane | Titan | 🇮🇳 India |
| Blancpain | Swatch Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Bulgari | LVMH | 🇫🇷 France |
| Concord | Movado Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Pandora | Pandora | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| ARTA by PNJ | PNJ | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
| ATTESA | Citizen Watch | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Richemont
Richemont is a publicly listed company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1988. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as SIX: CFR.
Richemont was created in 1988 when South African businessman Johann Rupert separated the international assets of Rembrandt Group into a Swiss holding company. It is the largest jewellery group in the world, built on Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, and the Rupert family retains voting control.
🇫🇷 Cartier and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 322 brands that began in France. 100 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Cartier among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Cartier?
The parent company of Cartier is Richemont, a publicly listed company headquartered in Switzerland.
Is Cartier French or Swiss?
Cartier originated in France in 1847, but it is owned today by Richemont, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So Cartier is a French-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Is Cartier still owned by Richemont?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Cartier is still owned by Richemont. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Compagnie Financière Richemont SA Annual Report 2025 — Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, Annual report, published 16 May 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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