Cartier: an obsession with stones | INHORGENTA 2026

Speaker: Helen Molesworth, Senior Jewellery Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Helen's career has spanned the global gem and jewellery industry, from roles with leading auction and jewellery houses to academic posts. For ten years she was a jewellery specialist for Sotheby's and Christie's in London and Geneva, where she handled sales of global importance including the private jewellery collection of HRH The Princess Margaret in 2006. As a gemmologist and jewellery historian, she has since held roles as Professeur d'Histoire du Bijou at the Geneva University of Art and Design, Managing Director at Gübelin, and most recently as the Senior Jewellery Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Lead Curator of their blockbuster exhibition, Cartier. She is a Fellow of the Gemmological Associations of Great Britain and Hong Kong and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London. Her book, Precious (‘a gem of a book’), came out in 2024, and Cartier (Sunday Times Best Seller) in 2025.