How Boucheron Delivered One of the Most Outstanding High-Jewelry Collections of the Year

The latest collection delivers everything from a necklace made from a cloud of diamonds, which looks a bit like an Elizabethan ruff collar, to a necklace that replaces an earth-grown stone at its centerpiece with a new-age material lifted from NASA Capturing the levity of weightlessness is not easy to come by in high-jewelry Looking to encapsulate the sky into a piece of jewelry, Claire Choisine looked beyond traditional, precious stones for something that has never been seen before in the world of gems.

The result is a stunning ice-blue 6 cm pendant surrounded by rock crystal and 6,162 diamonds with 108.17 carats that delivers high impact without weighing the neck down While Boucheron has priced the unique piece at €590,000, a real value cannot be placed on a material that has never been seen before in high-jewelry Imagine if you took handfuls of diamonds and threw them around your neck and they stayed weightlessly in place with no setting? That is the effect of the Nuage en Apesanteur masterpiece, which mimics the effect of millions of minute liquid droplets that form a cloud.

Few things express, so pointedly, the spirit of luxury like having your head literally in a cloud of diamonds Each hexagon is accented in either diamond or mother-of-pearl with the latter airbrushed in lacquer to create the effect of a stormy sky-a process that took almost 2,000 hours of work. . Source