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Chopard presents its daring Haute Joaillerie
Chopard presents its daring Haute Joaillerie
during the Paris Haute Couture Week
January 29th, 2016
Butterfly Haute Joaillerie earrings. Ref.: 859760-9001
Paris, January 2016 – A year after joining the Fédération Française de la Couture in January 2015 as a Jewellery member, Chopard is showcasing its latest Haute Joaillerie creations as part of the Paris Haute Couture week. 
Haute Couture and Haute Joaillerie share the fundamental values of creativity, excellence and expertise. In becoming a Jewellery member of the Fédération Française de la Couture, Chopard chose the most beautiful means of highlighting the talent and the exceptional work of its jewellery artisans. On January 27th and 28th 2016, Chopard will once again testify to this alliance by presenting the latest creations crafted within its Haute Joaillerie ateliers in Geneva. Just as Haute Couture’s ‘petites mains’ (gifted seamstresses) lovingly assemble elaborately ornate fabrics to invent surprising gowns, the Haute Joaillerie artisans at Chopard once again demonstrate their virtuosity and their technical genius by associating vividly coloured precious stones, gold and titanium.
Boldness and traditional expertise
Cleverly mingling traditional and modern techniques, the Geneva-based Maison unveils three splendid cuff-bracelets graced with sparkling colourful gems set on titanium – a metal chosen for its distinctive characteristics. Alongside its inherent lightness, titanium offers the advantage of lending itself to being coloured in a broad palette of shades. It therefore matches the colours of the stones with which it is adorned, thereby accentuating their brilliance, their radiance and their strength. Each of these three bracelets features a different inspiration and design and their crafting calls for a blend of extreme creativity and ingenuity. The first bracelet is like a flight towards spring: two butterflies made of topazes, Paraiba tourmalines and amethysts are perched gracefully on gem-set titanium foliage. In step with changing seasons and occasions, these two butterflies may flutter away: detached from their leafy bracelet, the wings of the first are transformed into an exquisite pair of earrings, while the second can become a brooch. This cuff-bracelet thereby delivers a complete jewellery set in one.
The second cuff bracelet skilfully combines 18-carat white gold and titanium in a precious interlacing pattern of amethysts, emeralds, Paraiba tourmalines and sapphires. The use of titanium makes this bracelet as light as lacework and even leads one to forget the very presence of the gem-setting due to the colouring of the metal.
Finally, the third bracelet is composed of two rows of flowers with pear-shaped diamond petals. This bracelet sparkles with subtly graded shades of blue sapphires, Paraiba tourmalines and white diamonds set on titanium in matching colours.
Butterfly Haute Joaillerie brooch. Ref.: 859760-9001
The original and mysterious creations composing the Haute Joaillerie collections
To round off this stunning selection, Chopard is also unveiling a splendid necklace: a constellation of titanium and precious red and blue stones whose centrepiece is a 14-carat pear-shaped tanzanite. A pair of earrings also features the surprising use of sculpted jade, along with emeralds and diamonds. In addition, the “Fleurs d’Opales” ring collection continues to blossom with enchanting grace. After launching the three first flowers with opal hearts during the Paris Haute Couture Week in July 2015, the jeweller now enriches its mysterious bouquet with three new rings. Adorned like their predecessors with a majestic central opal, they unfurl their precious petals across an exquisite gold and titanium structure.
Haute Joaillerie Collections at Chopard
Born from the instigation of Caroline Scheufele, co-President and Artistic Director of Chopard, and under her guidance, Haute Joaillerie has developed in a truly spectacular fashion at Chopard over the past few years. It currently collections such as the Animal World, The Red Carpet and The Green Carpet, which showcase the expertise of artistic crafts placed in the service of unmistakably modern artistic inspiration. Haute Joaillerie constitutes a true centre of excellence within Chopard, which masters every stage in their creation, from design through to production and finishing.
A combination of artistic crafts
Behind each of these creations is a story of hands: those of the nimble-fingered, patient and inventive artisans who have successively played their own crucial roles. These exceptional pieces have drawn upon the skills of every Haute Joaillerie craft: designers, wax jeweller-sculptors, jewellers, lapidaries, gemsetters, polishers… From lines to volumes and using gold or precious stones, they infuse life into this jewellery by combining their talents. The smooth, complementary interaction between the different skills is facilitated by uniting more than 30 crafts under the same roof. They represent a wealth that the Scheufele family carefully nurtures, by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and training from generation to generation. Chopard is keenly aware that the most precious heritage is above all human.
Making-of Burterfly bracelet
Making-of necklace
Making-of Amethyst bracelet
