Pol Bury first started designing jewellery with subtle kinetic movement in the late 1960 for GEM Montebello in Milan and also Galerie Maeght in Paris. It was, however, the exhibition of his jewellery held at Cartier's in New York in April 1971 that helped him receive international recognition for his sculptural jewels. Furthermore, it was this bangle being worn by Velma Bury that appeared in contemporary newspaper reports of the time including the New York Post of 12th April 1971. At Cartier the pieces ranged in price from $395 to $2,500 and would appear to correspond to those published in the Galerie Maeght catalogue of 1972. The Cartier exhibition opened a couple of days before that of Bury's kinetic sculptures in the Guggenheim Museum, another of smaller sculptures at the Lefebvre Gallery, and lastly, lithographs and graphics at the Weintraub Gallery - definitely the artist of the moment.