Midsummer Night – Haute Joaillerie

EDITO, Jewellery

CHOPARD haute joaillerie

Chopard opens the Midsummer Night reverie with a mastery born of light itself. The maison’s high jewellery unites technical brilliance with emotional warmth. Emeralds breathe like captured dawns, sapphires pulse with inner fire, and diamonds tune them into a frequency of grace. 

There is precision here, generosity, a sense of harmony between earth’s treasures and human craft. These jewels are like magical gardens where beauty is measured not in carats alone, but in the quiet radiance of intention.

by Marco TASSINI 

production assistant – Vivienne Klauser 

from the print issue 

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LABIRINTI by GUCCI haute joaillerie

The Bracelet, a 72,18 cts and fancy tourmalines

The necklace features a 78,46 cts Sapphire and fancy tourmalines

ired by the geometry of Italian gardens, Gucci’s Labirinti collection traces light through gemstone pathways. Precision and poetry intertwine: surprising sapphires and fancy tourmalines in shifting hues are set in rhythmic compositions of gold and diamond pavé. Each jewel becomes a microcosm, an ordered maze where colour and cut reveal a quiet architecture.

 

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DIOR haute joaillerie
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Van Cleef & Arpels — L’Île au Trésor

In L’Île au trésor racontée par Van Cleef & Arpels, the maison revisits the eternal dialogue between myth and matter. The Ammonite d’émeraudes ring, crafted in white and yellow gold, coils around five octagonal-cut Colombian emeralds (11.25 cts), green as submerged fire, and a 1.31 ct D VVS1 diamond, the jewel’s perfect heartbeat. Around it, a constellation of smaller diamonds amplifies the quiet geometry of light.


The Splendeur indienne ring continues the odyssey: rubies, pink sapphires, spessartite garnets, emeralds, and diamonds converge in an opulent choreography of colour. Each gem, precisely placed, evokes the treasures of a fabled shore, a world where craftsmanship becomes cartography and every facet a compass guiding light back to wonder.
Here, Van Cleef & Arpels reaffirms its creed: that true luxury lies in storytelling shaped by the hand, and in stones that remember the earth’s first dreams.

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CHANEL Haute Joaillerie 

TWEED GABRIELLE RING

Yellow gold, diamonds, rubies, yellow sapphires, garnets

1 oval-cut Spessartite Garnet 10.48 CTS

CHANEL Haute Joaillerie 

TWEED CAMBON RING

Yellow gold, white gold, diamonds, yellow diamonds

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PIAGET Haute Joaillerie
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CARTIER haute joaillerie

Molinae Yearrings – white gold and diamonds

Panther Telesma Brooch- diamonds, emeralds and onyx

Molinae Necklace

 

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