The stunning Cartier necklace — the Toussaint — at the centre of the heist in Ocean’s 8 has an India connect. It is inspired by a design crafted in 1931 for the Maharaja of Nawanagar in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

The original necklace featured a 136.25 carat “Queen of Holland” diamond described as the finest cascade of coloured diamonds. Jacques Cartier designed it in 1931 and named it the “The Jeanne Toussaint” necklace after its then creative director. The original necklace no longer exists as it was dismantled.

Cartier made the necklace - that graced Anne Hathaway’s character Daphne Kluger’s neck specially for the film.

Artisans worked from sketches and photographs of the Maharaja of Nawanagar’s original necklace to create the “heist” necklace with cubic zirconia in eight weeks. In usual circumstances, it could have taken up to two years to make the piece, from design to finish.

Genuine stones of the size and quantity needed for the film would have been too difficult and expensive to resource.

The same high-jewellery techniques usually used by Cartier was, however, employed in crafting the necklace set in white gold.