Vintage Cartier 18kt Gold Heart Pendant Dinh Van

The coveted collectors charm is signed Cartier by Jean Dinh Van. Dinh Van trained and worked at Cartier for about ten years, roughly the mid-1950s. He's considered a genuine revolutionary in postwar jewelry. He broke from the ornate, precious-stone-heavy tradition he learned at Cartier and pioneered a stripped-down, modernist aesthetic — jewelry meant to be worn every day rather than locked in a safe.