Well into its third generation, and renowned for fancy coloured diamonds and one-of-a-kind jewellery, Dehres is a connoisseur’s insider favourite for its seductive designs and rare, high-quality gemstones.
Founded in 1971 as a supplier of fine diamonds to other jewellery makers, the company started to create its own designs in 2004. Today, it sends rough diamonds to facilities in New York, Antwerp and Tel Aviv for polishing and hand cutting, and pursues the finest fancy coloured diamonds and gem-quality coloured gemstones to grace its own creations.
Dehres designs range from the classic to the contemporary. Their necklace and earrings sets, in particular, are admired for their extraordinary sparkle, colour matching, and elegant, sensitive designs. The Empress Blue necklace and earring ensemble, for example, has cushion-cut royal blue sapphires contrasting with the luminosity of white diamonds in a variety of shapes and cuts.
Another extraordinary, coloured gem — an exotic 75 ct cabochon green emerald — sits at the heart of the Venus necklace with its alluring double row and pendants of pear-shape, oval, and round white diamonds.
Aside from coloured gems, Dehres’ uses cut and shape as a design hallmark. The nostalgically beautiful Majestic necklace and earring set displays this within a single jewellery piece. Pear and oval-shape diamonds form the major elements, along with marquise-cut and round diamonds.
Dehres is led by second-generation Ephraim Zion, one of the world’s more influential fancy coloured diamond dealers. Zion distinguishes his company from other jewellers with “unique design, superior workmanship, highest standards of quality, and attention to every little detail.” He adds that Asian buyers in particular, “consider a high-quality diamond as a stone of value, an investment vehicle, a security, and as a sentimental value and precious gift for future generations.”
Indeed, the designs of Dehres display a timeless elegance, as exemplified in the ensemble of the Regal IV necklace and Splendour earrings. All the necklace’s 257 white diamonds, and the 60 in the pair of dangling earrings, are seamlessly orchestrated into a design that evokes the quality of a treasured family heirloom. A similar charisma surrounds the Victoria necklace and earrings set, whose flowing lines bring to mind fulsome femininity and romance.
The Raindrop necklace and earrings set seems to jiggle to a more contemporary cadence: its array of pear-shape, oval, round, and marquise-cut white diamonds — 208 pieces in the necklace and 48 in the dangling earrings — is arranged in kinetic patterns like wind-blown rain. For a study in elegant understatement, consider the Single Row Heart Shape diamond necklace, with 48 white diamonds arranged in a large-and-small alternating sequence, creating a piece of jewellery both subtle and animated.
The necklace can be paired with two choices of earrings: the Marquise Cut diamond earrings are glittering stud earrings featuring six marquise-cut white diamonds totalling 4.23 cts; while the Heart Shape Pendant earrings consists of a pair of exquisite heart shaped white diamonds totalling 25.87 cts.
