There’s something particularly alluring about Piaget’s latest Mediterranean Garden High Jewellery collection. On one hand, it is redolent of little trinkets handpicked during summer holidays on the Mediterranean islands, delicate and precious. Yet on the other, it is glorious and elegant, passing muster in the most refined, jazzy settings. The jewellery maison has drawn inspirational cues from the vitality of the French Riviera, capturing the stunning panorama of blooming flora, dazzling sunlight and shimmering waters by sleight of goldsmithing and gem-setting.
The spirited collection is made up of limited-edition as well as unique, one-of-a-kind pieces that boast the complex crafts of working gold in twisted threads and the application of the marquise cut to gemstones. The Paraiba tourmaline and blue sapphires, for instance, were selected to encapsulate the oceanic warmth and shimmer of the Riviera.
One of its most elegant and approachable masterpieces is the cuff bracelet in twisted gold which, in order to create its spiral model from a single thread, deployed the virtuoso execution of a tenured jeweller. This unique method of gem-setting allows the impression that the stones are floating lightly atop the gently polished surface of the bracelet.
And then there is the Yves Piaget Rose, an emblem deeply entwined in the living memory of the house. Like a beautiful floral garland, the Rose timepiece embodies the fallen rays of sunlight with 668 brilliant-cut diamonds and 12 pear-shaped green tourmalines.
A new archetype of femininity and elegance, the Piaget Mediterranean Garden watch features a gob-stopping case set with 52 marquise-cut diamonds along with 4 brilliant-cut diamonds. Each gem is placed with the greatest precision on the perimeter of the watch, forming a beautiful laurel wreath around its white mother-of-pearl dial.
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