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Dior Press Service
The entire new high jewelery collection is centered around Dior Joaillerie Creative Director Victoire de Castellane's favorite stone - opal. These are 26 pieces with white Ethiopian and black Australian opals. Among them - six hours with a secret, which Victoire herself urges to call exclusively bracelets, pointing out the jewelry component as the main one in them. Well, let there be "bracelets with secrets", because it doesn't really matter which mechanism or dial is hidden under the lid of magnificent opal. Four watch models are reproducible, two are unique pieces, estimated at € 700 thousand and € 800 thousand, respectively. The most expensive (for comparison: the price of other bracelets with a secret is from € 200,000), but also the most spectacular.
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Boucheron Press Service
Boucheron creative director Claire Chuan continues to work with the archives at home, seeking inspiration from them, but never repeating the old. She is not a fan of the retelling genre; she finds the starting points in history to start an exciting new jewelry journey. This time one of the motifs was the ivy, which is a signature for Boucheron (the second motif is the continuation of Serpent Bohème). For the first time, it was decided to make it in boutique class jewelry, that is, more affordable pieces of jewelry art. Formerly ivy, first used in a Boucheron braceletback in 1881, usually wrapped around haute joaillerie pieces. But it was not without high jewelery at all - along with new edition jewelry, they also presented piece unique - a question mark necklace (another corporate theme) with diamonds. Ivy leaves here are fixed movably and tremble when the body moves.
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Chaumet
There are only 13 items in the new Insolence collection. All of them are precious bows, all are in a combination of white and pink gold with diamonds of different cuts in different settings. The bow itself is not a new motive for jewelry art, and even today it is often encountered. In Chaumet, as if claiming the right to use it, they demonstrate a brooch by Joseph Chaumet in 1922 and sketches from 1910-1915, recalling that the French house began to create bows not today. But such references are superfluous: the embodiment here is so original that it does not cause any associations with the precious bows of the neighbors in Vendome. Bow at Chaumet- double, it is tied from a white gold ribbon studded with diamonds and a pink gold ribbon twisted in the manner of a rope. The highlight of the collection was a unique necklace estimated at € 350,000. It took Chaumet 500 hours of work to create it.
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Giampiero Bodino
The head of the only jewelry brand founded, not bought by Richemont, Giampiero Bodino decided to enter the territory of other brands of the group and present the first watches. Of course, jewelry and released in a single copy. In total, three hours, all - precious bracelets with a secret. Everything is a continuation of one of Giampiero Bodino's signature themes: a blossoming flower (Primavera), Italian mosaics (Mosaico) and a wind rose (Rosa dei Venti). "Rose of the Winds" became the motif of the most spectacular model, inlaid with rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. The 11.49-carat Zambian emerald plays the role of the watch cap with the secret.
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Suzanne syz
For the second time, presenting her jewelry in Paris, Suzanne Cease this time decided to impress Wand with a new material (now she also creates in aluminum, which, according to Siz herself, is even more difficult to work with than the titanium she had previously mastered) and large cocktail rings. somewhat reminiscent of the works of another Suzanne, Belperron. These rings are carved from rock crystal and encrusted with randomly spaced cut and rough diamonds. Large gemstones have become the center of the rings. Most of all, the imagination is striking with the 78-carat Paraiba tourmaline. True, the tourmaline is not Brazilian, but African, which officially takes it from the fabulously expensive Paraiba category to the very expensive Paraiba-like category. But the color is the most correct - a bright neon blue.
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Damiani
Damiani's new Parisian flagship opened in September last year at 19 Place Vendôme, taking over most of the former Lorenz Bäumer boutique (Bomer himself now fits in a smaller part with the entrance next door).
Damiani is mastering the new space with success - by the January haute couture week, even a collection of Murano glass vases, acquired by the Damiani Group in January last year, from the Venetian manufacturer Venini, was brought here. The assortment of jewelry, of course, has also been updated - these are D. Icon jewelry in new, violet color, ceramics, and new graceful Vanita fans in diamonds and blue sapphires. Among the latter, a ring with sapphires that resembles a kokoshnik is especially noteworthy, partially covering the back of the hand.
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Louis Vuitton
The signature four-leafed flower of the Louis Vuitton monogram has again become the focus of jewelry designers. This time, it became the main motif for jewelry with colored ornamental stones and Color Blossom BB mother-of-pearl, the new Blossom Idylle Twist flexible bracelets and several haute joaillerie jewelry - Blossom Haute Joaillerie. There are many interesting ones among them, but from a gemological point of view, some stand out especially. So, a set of a ring, a wide bracelet and earrings with lavender spinel (in the earrings - two pear-cut spinels, in the ring and bracelet - pillow-cut) has a simply hypnotic effect. The six full-time gemologists at home are still doing their best, and the ability to find colored stones, and especially spinel, of rare tones has already become something of their signature style.
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Chopard
Choosing the main piece of jewelry in The Garden of Kalahari is problematic, because the main star in it is not a necklace or earrings, but a 342-carat diamond from a mine in Botswana, which, after the purchase, was named The Queen of Kalahari by Chopard co-president and head of the company's jewelry department Caroline Scheufele. At Chopard 's atelier, the Kalahari Queen was brought in on March 9 last year and turned into 23 diamonds. Five of them - cushion, baguette, princess, pear and classic brilliant-cut - weigh more than 20 carats (the weight of the largest three is impressive 50, 26 and 25 carats).
Other characteristics of these stones are also noteworthy - the highest color category for non-colored diamonds (D) and Flawless clarity (Fl, "flawless", that is, without inclusions and surface defects). With magnificent stones, they have created five jewelry and one jewelry watch with a secret.>
