Jewels by Nature
Chapter 1: Everlasting
The first chapter opens with everlasting flora, whose eternally renewed life cycle provides a continued source of inspiration. Untamed varieties, such as wild rose, clover and fern, along with the field star which lives among oats. Prolific plants with distinct identities.
Oat and Field Star
Echoing the Maison’s long tradition of goldsmithing, the parure depicts a landscape of oats and field stars undulating in the wind.
This creation is the result of 1,300 hours of work.
The virtuosity of the 12 Vendôme workshop shines through once again in a sumptuous necklace that required highly technical assembly.
Fully articulated and enhanced with diamonds, the yellow gold oat inflorescences contrast with the field stars.
Chiselled in white gold, they glitter with yellow diamonds, including three cushion-cut stones totalling 8.32 carats.
The signature lightness of the Chaumet style animates the asymmetrical earrings offering multiple portés. Intentionally designed so that the gold wire of the ear cuff tops the ear with a bouquet of oats that can be removed, they can be more classic or more elaborate according to the wearer’s desires.
This delicacy has also inspired a brooch offering multiple portés, which is equally graceful worn as a hair ornament or pinned on clothing.
Wild Rose
Inspired by an archival tiara, this parure spotlights the wild rose’s multitude of golden yellow stamens by incorporating the most remarkable yellow diamonds.
This creation is the result of 1,500 hours of work.
Drawing on the Maison’s heritage, the Wild Rose parure is inspired by one of its masterpieces from the Roaring Twenties: the wild rose leaf tiara, created by Joseph Chaumet in 1922.
The contemporary parure is adorned with remarkable yellow diamonds, such as the 8.23-carat Fancy Vivid Yellow VS2 stone illuminating a necklace that can be worn three different ways, all with a single clasp.
Highlighted by a square-cut stone that brings the piece to life, a ring offering multiple portés adorns the hand with delicately indented petals, at the heart of which sparkles a 5.02-carat Fancy Vivid Yellow VS1 diamond which can be worn as a solitaire.
Clover and Fern
A dialogue between clover and fern, the parure magnifies two emblematic motifs from the Chaumet stylistic repertoire, combining exceptional diamonds and emeralds.
This creation is the result of 1,250 hours of work.
Reflecting the naturalism embedded in the Maison’s roots, the workshop’s mounters became botanists to create a botanical duo.
Tinted with three unoiled Colombian emeralds totalling 11.63 carats, clover leaves bloom on a carpet of ferns.
Worked in layers, very fine sections of white gold convey the plant’s graceful character, while the diamonds combine cut-down, bezel and illusion settings.
Evoking the colour of clover, exceptional emeralds adorn the various creations. A 5.19-carat pear displays its silky green on a ring whose fern leaves hug the gem as closely as possible.
Bamboo
At the intersection of earth and sky, Bamboo boldly captures the pure beauty of this plant and illustrates a precious and resilient nature.
Requiring 1,150 hours of work, the plastron necklace enhances the neckline with a contemporary style. The shimmering gold is enhanced by a superb black Australian opal, whose vivid fire flickers with an original combination of colours, from bright blue to apple green, gorgeously complemented by tsavorite garnets.
JEWELS BY NATURE
CHAPTER 2: Ephemeral
- Chapter 1: Everlasting
Celebrating an inextinguishable nature, uniting wild and hardy species with cultivated plants.
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Chapter 2: Ephemeral
Exploring an ephemeral nature rich with evocations, in which flowers and butterflies are captured in a fleeting moment.
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Chapter 3: Reviving
Paying homage to a nature reborn, capable of endlessly regenerating itself. Dragonflies and blue tits take flight among plants beloved by Empress Josephine.
