Chaumet Necklaces – A Precious Echo of Grace and Elegance
Chaumet Necklaces – A Precious Echo of Grace and Elegance
French luxury brand Chaumet has a rich history of creating one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces. Founded in 1780 by Marie-Etienne Nitot, the house became known for catering to the aristocracy.
Chaumet’s first great client, Empress Josephine, invented a style that combined refined elegance with lightness. This aesthetic animates the collections of today.
Liens
Since 1780, tiaras and high jewelry have been crafted by Marie-Etienne Nitot at the illustrious House of Chaumet. The Maison has encapsulated the elegance of Parisian artisanal jewellery throughout five centuries, with its creations bringing an element of timeless sophistication to every era.
The Liens collection, created in 1977, embodies the strong symbolism of attachment by symbolising love, family and friendship bonds. It is an essential link in the House’s repertoire of sentimental jewellery, from Bijoux de Sentiments and Lacs d’Amour to links adorning rings, necklaces, earrings and watches.
Originally inspired by bows that found favour with Queen Marie-Antoinette and crossed links of the Belle Epoque, this graphic motif has been interpreted in a modern way. The resulting collection celebrates the link between two people, through a contemporary reinterpretation of sentimental jewellery, affirming the strength of relationships that time continues to enrich.
This collection of diamond-paved links reveals the sensual curves that express the Maison’s art of lines and symbolizes the unfailing attachment of two people in love. In the form of a necklace, an earring or a ring with solitaires, these signatures are the pledge of enduring love.
From passion to affection, from love’s first blush to filial affection, there is a link for each emotion in the collection that celebrates the strong bond between a couple. The ring in pink gold, with brilliant-cut diamonds, combines the purity of line and powerful graphic aesthetics to assert its fervour and the strength of its conviction.
For lovers, a second-hand Chaumet Liens ring is the perfect gift, one that expresses your true love and commitment to each other. Whether it is to celebrate your wedding, a new life together or a new beginning, these beautiful pieces of fine jewelry are the embodiment of enduring love and come in a variety of styles and sizes.
As a talisman of love, the Chaumet Liens ring is a very popular choice amongst lovers worldwide. Its design is extremely refined and chic, and it has an incredibly elegant style that will fit into your wardrobe effortlessly. With a wide range of designs, including several models in white gold and diamonds, you can find the ring that perfectly meets your needs.
Josephine
A precious echo of the woman who inspires it, the Josephine collection perpetuates the graceful and elegant style of the Maison. An alliance of delicate drawing with flamboyant stones, it revisits nearly 240 years of expert tradition with contemporary creativity.
Chaumet evokes the sovereign allure of Empress Josephine Bonepart, the French queen who was a close patron of the brand since its founding. Now, the house has updated its Josephine High Jewellery collection with designs that celebrate one of her favourite gemstone cuts – the pear.
Throughout the collection, you’ll find pear-shaped diamonds nestled into gold and diamond pave V formations, dripping from ear climbers and adding sparkle to hairlines in delicate tiaras. It’s a jewellery tribute to the empress’s chameleon-like love of reinvention, and it’s a collection that’s ready for you to mix, match and make your own.
From the Belle Epoque drawings and projects that have graced the collection, to the reinterpretation of her most iconic tiara, the Josephine collection is inspired by her elegance and majesty. It’s the result of a pure vision of refinement, and pays a dazzling tribute to the Maison’s bicentenary jewellery virtuosity and exceptional heritage.
The collection reflects the elegance of the Josephine tiara, which is shaped into rings and necklaces that can be layered together for an ever-changing look. The tiara’s pear-shaped diamond is central to the aigrette, the brand’s new watchmaking icon, which features a graphic silhouette that draws attention from its own base.
This is the perfect piece to add a touch of Josephine to any outfit, and it looks great when worn with other pieces from the collection. It is cast from 18-karat rose gold and paved with brilliant-cut diamonds.
It comes in original packaging and a full set of documents, and it has a 2-year warranty. It is available in different sizes and styles to suit all tastes.
This beautiful necklace is a pre-owned item from the Josephine Collection and has been fully serviced by the manufacturer. It is a high quality, branded product and will be delivered with a certificate of authenticity.
Bee My Love
The graphic lines of a honeycomb have become the trademark of Chaumet’s Bee My Love collection, which features a series of dazzling new pieces in mirror-polished gold and diamonds. These pieces are inspired by the hardworking bee – an emblematic symbol of the Maison and its founder, Marie-Etienne Nitot, who was appointed court jeweller to Napoleon – a man known for his imperial taste and lavish lifestyle.
The line comprises a range of necklaces, bracelets and rings featuring hexagonal motifs in white or rose gold that gleam brightly when worn as a single piece. Alternatively, you can stack two or more pieces together.
Often seen as an alternative to Cartier’s Love bracelet, the BML collection is more understated and has a more modern aesthetic. There are also bangles that can be adorned with diamonds or coloured stones, making it a very versatile piece of jewellery.
Each piece is designed by a team of jewelers, setters and polishers based at the Maison’s atelier in Paris. Once the design has been sketched, gemologists select and sculpt the precious stone into brilliant, cushion or oval cuts, or Chaumet’s signature pear cut.
From the initial idea to the finished piece, time is an essential ingredient in every Chaumet creation – more than 2,000 hours are spent by artisans on each. It is this expertise that reflects the quality and craftsmanship of the brand and its artisanal heritage.
As a result, each piece is a work of art that can take months to complete. It is this bespoke approach that makes each design unique and exclusive to the Maison.
The new creations in the Bee My Love line introduce an exceptional innovation that combines the hexagonal shape of the bee with 88 facets, giving diamonds an unsurpassed shine and fire. This is achieved by orientating the facets so that they capture more rays of light, which reflect back with greater intensity than other traditional brilliant-cut diamonds.
The Taille Imperatrice cut is a perfect example of this exceptional innovation. It has 88 facets which are each shaped by hand to give diamonds a greater depth of meaning, like a double evocation of infinity that transposes the symbolism of the bee’s figure-of-eight dance into jewellery – an element that is innately linked to the house’s history.
The House of Chaumet
Since its founding in 1780, the Parisian jewelry house of Chaumet has been renowned for producing exceptional rings, necklaces and bracelets. Crafted in the heart of Place Vendome, the Maison’s creations express its high jewelry savoir-faire, which has been passed down from workshop head to workshop head for almost 240 years.
At the Maison, each jewellery creation begins with a design sketch. Gemologists then use their expertise to select the stones that best reflect the emotion or quality that they are intended to convey. Once they are chosen, the jewels are sculpted into brilliant, cushion or oval or emerald cuts and finally set. The result is an exquisite work of art that is a true masterpiece, worthy of its creators.
As a reminder of this precious heritage, the Maison exhibits regularly, bringing to light its history and unique know-how, in exceptional settings worldwide. Whether at the Forbidden City in Beijing, Tokyo’s Mitsubishi Ichigokan museum or Monaco’s Grimaldi Forum, each exhibition celebrates its flagship themes and brings to life this specific craft of jewelry that has been so closely linked to the Maison.
A contemporary creation freely inspired by one of the Maison’s most emblematic historical pieces, the Torsade de Chaumet necklace reinvents the jewellery classic toi et moi (“you and me”) in a play on asymmetries that poetically suggests the ceaseless movement of the dynamic of love. The supple, asymmetric knot evokes the human bond, a feeling of lightness and elegance that is both assured and refined.
This luminous neglige necklace is set with two pear-shaped rubies of approximately 2 and 1.50 carats. At the end of each pendant, which echoes one of Chaumet’s codes, these precious stones are suspended by the apparent miracle of fil couteau, an emblematic technique of the Maison’s High Jewellery collection.
Designed to be worn on both the right and left, this delicate necklace is a perfect symbol of the bond between lovers. Its elegant, supple design is the result of more than 2,000 hours of work by artisans at Chaumet.
The House of Chaumet has adapted over the years to meet changing tastes and trends, maintaining its reputation for producing exceptional jewellery that is truly timeless. As part of LVMH, the French luxury conglomerate, it is now a key player in the world of luxury jewelry. Its salons and high jewellery workshop continue to operate in the Place Vendome where jewellers, gem-setters and polishers craft rings, earrings, watches and enduringly popular tiaras.
Chaumet Necklaces – A Precious Echo of Grace and Elegance
