official company document, the company is committed to conduct businesses "in an environmentally responsible manner" and "minimising negative environmental impacts." Notable patrons and owners Celebrities 1904 - Alberto Santos-Dumont requested a watch from Louis Cartier, leading to the creation of the Santos de Cartier, the first men's wrist watch, first sports watch, and first pilot's watch 1928 - Marjorie Merriweather Post bought from Cartier in London earrings once worn by Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. 1950 - The Hollywood actress Gloria Swanson appeared in Sunset Boulevard wearing the two diamond and rock crystal bracelets that she had bought from Cartier in 1930. 1955 - Creation of Jean Cocteau's sword for his election to the Académie française, to the artist's own design. 1957 - Barbara Hutton bought a tiger brooch in yellow gold, onyx and jonquil diamonds. 1968 - The Mexican actress María Félix commissioned Cartier to make a diamond necklace in the form of a serpent. 1969 - Robert Kenmore, the chairman of Cartier's parent company, acquired a pear-shaped diamond which it sold to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The Cartier Diamond was thus renamed the Taylor-Burton Diamond. Royalty 1904 - Cartier received its first appointment as official purveyor to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. 1904 - Cartier received another appointment as the purveyor for King Alfonso XIII of Spain. 1907 - Cartier held its first exhibition and sale in Saint Petersburg, at the Grand Hotel Europe. Shortly after, it was appointed as official purveyor to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. 1919 - Appointment as official purveyor to King Albert I of Belgium. 1921 - Appointment as official purveyor to the Prince of Wales, future King Edward VIII who, on abdicating in 1936, became the Duke of Windsor. 1924 - Queen Marie of Romania wears a Cartier tiara created to resemble the Russian kokoshnik for her portrait painted by Philip de László. 1925 - Maharaja of Patiala commissions the Patiala Necklace. 1929 - Appointment as official purveyor to King Fouad I of Egypt. 1938 - One of the smallest wristwatches in the world, by Cartier, was given to Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom. 1939 - Appointment as official purveyor to King Zog I of Albania. 1949 - The Duke and Duchess of Windsor bought a platinum panther brooch on a Kashmir cabochon sapphire in Paris. 1954 - Creation for the Duchess of Windsor of a lorgnette in yellow