Imagination and Innovation in High Jewelry

One particularly striking piece was the diamond camellia with a 7.61-carat cushion-cut Mozambican ruby, which could be removed from the nine-row diamond Rouge Incandescent necklace and worn as a hair clip In addition to the engineering expertise reflected in these versatile pieces, Chanel showed its mastery of glyptic skills with the Rose Tendre ring: Pink quartz was carved into a camellia and surrounded by cultured pearls and diamonds The same dainty silhouette was echoed in earrings, necklaces and rings, like the Joséphine Aigrette Impériale, set with a 22-carat pear-shaped fancy intense yellow diamond - a design that took special advantage of the house's traditional fil couteau, or knife edge, setting technique.

The new clawed mount fixes stones like Sri Lankan sapphires or Colombian emeralds at only four points, allowing the stone to look as if it is floating amid a cloud of diamonds Her signature earrings feature jagged clusters of diamonds or pearls with cascades of white gold fringe punctuated by diamonds or seed pearls that can move along the strands or hang from the sides The piece, fully pavéd with diamonds, was designed to rest around the back of the neck and shoulders, something like a frozen feather boa.

The Mystery Set technique, a method of setting stones so no prongs are visible, brought to life three heart-shaped flowers rimmed by diamonds in the Amour Sacré brooch and a lush frond encircling one cushion-cut internally flawless type 2A diamond of 9.05 carats in the Feuille de Rubis ring. . Source