Piaget for SIHH 2019: Ultra-thin watchmaking, exceptional gem-setting and an expanded focus on meteorites

  Piaget’s SIHH collection unites core watchmaking strengths with a celestial touch. Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweller Piaget presents three new Altiplano timepieces at SIHH 2019. The new pieces blend watchmaking with the precise skills associated with working in precious stones. These stones, formed under tremendous heat and pressure and extracted from deep beneath the … Read more

Noble Jewels: The Donnersmarck Diamonds carry with them a fascinating story

 The auction in November will offer the chance for someone to acquire extraordinarily rare jewels imbued  with a fascinating history. The Donnersmarck Diamonds pair is estimated at $9-14 million (CHF 8,810,000 – 13,700,000). To mark 10 years of dedicated Noble Jewels sales in Geneva, Sotheby’s will offer at auction The Donnersmarck Diamonds, a pair of extraordinary … Read more

Pomellato turns 50 with Ritratto – a full expression of the concept of New Precious

Unconventional personality à la Pomellato Rising to the challenge of a material yet unexplored in its long history, Italian jewelry company Pomellato, currently ranking among the first five European jewellers by sales and part of the Kering Luxury Group, designed a collection that explores the unique magnificence of hardstones. Pomellato uses the widest range of precious … Read more

Sunlight Journey – a Piaget high jewellery collection

All of summer in a Piaget cuff. Sunlight Journey is synonymous with the scenic beauty of the Amalfi coast.

Sunlight journey, a Piaget high jewellery collection

Sun is on fire one last time and spells the start of a festive evening. Plunge into the heart of summer with the vibrant colors of the Piaget Sunlight Journey collection. Inspired by the Amalfi coast, this jewelry journey is punctuated by the path of the sun and the moods it creates: Secrets of Dawn, Midday Festival, and
Nightfall Celebration.

Each time of day produces its own light and its distinctive vibe, in which jewelry and watchmaking creations bloom in dazzling colours thanks to the use of exceptional gems such as blue sapphires and yellow diamonds.

Piaget’s newest collection draws inspiration from the scenic beauty of the Amalfi Coast. A land of fire, volcanoes, and azure blue seas; a land bathed in light, a land where the natural elements unite with strength and passion. A land rich in culture and artistic expressions; a land of exchanges and sharing, where life itself is regarded as an intense and refined work of art, echoing the ‘art of living’ locations so greatly prized by the Piaget Society,” explains the luxury maison.

Secrets of Dawn includes watches featuring dials adorned with variously shaded white opals forming sceneries composed of billowing clouds and foam that inspire dreams and fantasy. Certain watches have captured these images in memory of a summer stroll, by using original materials such as eggshell mosaic for
their dial decoration.

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The highlight of the Midday Festival is a necklace sparkling with an oval-cut Ceylon sapphire. Mosaic effects magnify the splendidly varied shades of the sea: gems reproduce the movement of a wave rippling over a watch, a one-of-a-kind creation embracing the wrist with its asymmetrical charm. A necklace of
sapphires, black opals and diamonds crowned by an emerald-cut blue sapphire shines with unique radiance like waves lapping against the shore.

The NightFall Celebration jewels radiate colourful beams of pink sapphires and red spinels. This range includes watches with dials meticulously crafted of micro-mosaic. We fall in love with the lavish rose bougainvillea encircling the dial taking on an intense and luminous fuchsia rose hue. Luminously resistant to
nightfall, a cushion-shape yellow diamond glows with spectacular radiance in the company of red spinels, yellow and white diamonds.

And sometimes, away from prying eyes, in the darkness well suited to confidential whispers, a ring will reveal its own secret: skilfully crafted feather marquetry embellished with purple sapphires, red spinels and diamonds

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Passion, delicacy and precision. A closer look at Nelly Saunier’s art, selecting feathers like precious stones.

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Dior’s Grand Soir Botanic watches turn the spotlight on flowers that seem to be growing under the glass

Christian Dior’s gardens and flowers inspire new Dior Grand Soir Botanic Collection. Eight different designs. Each piece is unique.   The first-ever Jennifer Lawrence campaign for Dior under Maria Grazia Chiuri’s artistic direction finally breaks! Shot in Dior Fall 2017 by Brigitte Lacombe, the actress is casually natural with a touch of sophistication, carrying both … Read more

The groundbreaking Emerald Paternity Test is a true game-changer for the coloured gemstone industry

A new level of transparency for the gemstone trade: Gübelin Gem Lab announces the groundbreaking Emerald Paternity Test at 2017 Baselworld.

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The Gübelin Gem Lab, one of the world’s leaders in the analysis of precious gemstones announced the Emerald Paternity Test at. This new technology uses customised DNA-based nanoparticles enabling traceability of emeralds back to the exact place of mining.

Gübelin Gem Lab

Provenance Proof

The Emerald Paternity Test is a true game-changer for the coloured gemstone industry. It is the first of a series of technologies and services developed by Gübelin Gem Lab dedicated to bringing more transparency into the gemstone industry, united under the Provenance Proof label.

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Emerald Paternity Test

This breakthrough technology uses DNA-based nanoparticles that are applied directly at the mine, onto the rough emerald crystals. Developed specifically to survive the usual procedures, which an emerald undergoes before reaching the end consumer (such as cleaning, cutting, polishing, transportation, setting), the nanoparticles can be retrieved and decoded at any stage along the supply chain.

This technology offers miners (both big corporates and cooperatives of small and artisanal miners), governments, trade organisations, industry watchdogs, jewellery brands and final customers a completely new level of transparency when sourcing emeralds, instilling confidence and creating trust.

This is the first time nanotechnology – the branch of technology that deals with dimensions of less than 100 nanometres – has been used in such context. The size of these particles makes them invisible to optical microscopes, therefore not affecting the appearance, quality and properties of the stone whatsoever

Gübelin operates one of the world’s most respected gemmological laboratory as a completely independent subsidiary. In its laboratories in Lucerne, Hong Kong and New York, the Gübelin Gem Lab provides analyses of diamonds, coloured gemstones and pearls, and is particularly known for its expertise in coloured gems.

Stones and Pearls - Gübelin Gem Lab announces the Emerald Paternity Test