Traverse the full spectrum of jewellery colours that this summer brings to the table, from the calm, crystalline purity of Boucheron’s botanical creations to Bvlgari’s life-affirmingly vivid Polychroma collection, displayed in all shades of the rainbow.
Boucheron
18,000 hours of work went into Boucheron’s 2025 Carte Blanche high jewellery collection, Impermanence – a contemplative exploration of nature’s ephemerality. “The collection is an ode to that fragile instant that I wanted to crystallise for all eternity,” creative director Claire Choisne says of the 28-piece series, which assembles to form six botanical compositions. The Japanese art of flower arranging, ikebana, and the aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi (which celebrates the beauty of impermanence) influence each of Choisne’s compositions, illustrating the cycle of nature dwindling away into pitch blackness. Composition No. 6 – the lightest – features a dainty tulip, an eucalyptus branch, and a dragonfly earring fashioned from sapphire glass and mother-of-pearl. The darkest variation, Composition No. 1, casts a poppy flower, sweet pea branches, and a butterfly in total darkness, going as far as to etch the veins of the poppy with a coating of Vantablack: a material capable of absorbing 99.965 per cent of light.
Pomellato
For those in search of a radiant, uplifting August or a dazzling celebration of their birth month, the Milanese jeweller Pomellato offers several tantalisingly bold, contemporary expressions of peridot. The bright green gemstone, which – along with being this month’s birthstone – is one of the few gemstones to occur in only one colour and symbolises harmony, strength, and renewal, is presented in fine and high jewellery pieces for effortless day-to-night styling.
Pomellato’s signature ‘naked’ stone setting shines under the spotlight with the Nudo collection’s Peridot ring, which can be worn stacked or solo for any occasion. High jewellery pieces such as the Asymmetrico Peridot Ring or the Marvellous Griffe Ring (featuring a 46.29-carat peridot and tsavorite pavé) from Pomellato’s Collezione 1967 will add more than a little sparkle to evening events, especially when layered with other gold pieces.
Graff
Kinetic, kaleidoscopic and unmistakably Graff, the British jeweller has unveiled 1963: a mesmerising high jewellery suite that encapsulates the spirit of the Swinging Sixties. Launched during Paris Haute Couture Week in July, the breathtaking necklace, matching bracelet, and statement earrings capture the freedom, glamour, cultural revolution, and heady sense of rebellion that permeated the decade in which Graff was founded.
7,790 exceptional oval, baguette cut and round diamonds (totalling over 129 carats) have gone into the creation of the suite, executed in sculptural concentric ovals and custom-cut arcs of baguette-cut diamonds, all precisely aligned and meticulously set by Graff’s master artisans. A closer look reveals a line of round pavé emeralds concealed within each white gold setting, weaving the subtlest hint of Graff’s signature green hue into this masterpiece. Chief executive officer François Graff quite rightly describes it as, “One of the most intricate, complex and technically challenging high jewellery suites we have ever created.”
Bvlgari Highend Five Milestone
Bvlgari’s astounding ability to transform nature’s majesty into dazzling works of art has reached new heights with the unveiling of Polychroma: a collection of over 600 masterpieces that includes close to 250 high jewellery pieces and high-end watches. Chief among those are the Gallery of Wonders – five ravishing high jewellery creations set with the rarest of gems, such as the Tree of Life-themed Bvlgari Celestial Mosaic necklace, which features the world’s fourth-largest spinel (a 131.21-carat jewel from Tajikistan).
A deep royal blue 123.35-carat Sri Lankan sugarloaf sapphire takes centre stage on the Bvlgari Cosmic Vault necklace, while the audacious colour contrasts of the Polychromatic Bloom necklace are presented in a trio of cabochon-cut gems: a 106.36-carat rubellite, a 55.52-carat peridot and a 55.11-carat tanzanite. A 241.06-carat Colombian emerald at the heart of the Magnus Emerald necklace – the largest ever used by Bvlgari – pairs the sophistication of the Seventies with a lithe sautoir silhouette. A reimagining of Bvlgari’s iconic Trombino ring becomes the Essence of Yellow ring, topped with an emerald Asscher-cut fancy vivid yellow diamond weighing over 45 carats.
Text by: Renyi Lim
