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A Mother’s Tiara, a Queen’s Emeralds: Royal & Noble Jewels at Sotheby’s Geneva, Part II
A tiara made to flatter the Second Empire became a wedding gift for the Orléans pretender’s bride; her daughter’s emeralds followed a Portuguese queen into exile. Both now come to Geneva.
The Hand That Sets the Stone: The Bulgari Pink and the Great Houses at Christie’s Geneva
Set by Bulgari in 1950s Rome and kept in private hands for more than seventy years, a 24-carat pink diamond reaches auction for the first time, beside a collection built around the great jewellery houses.
A Queen’s Copy, an Empress’s Gift: Provenance and the 19th Century at Phillips Geneva
In 1928 Queen Mary commissioned a copy of Victoria’s Jubilee necklace. Nearly a century later, it returns to auction in Geneva alongside a gem-set cross from Rudolf Nureyev’s collection.
The Empress’s Sapphires: Royal & Noble Jewels at Sotheby’s Geneva, Part I
Catalogued by the Soviets as a stone without history, the Romanov Sapphire returns a century later to lead Sotheby’s Geneva sale, followed by the sapphires a Swedish princess received as a wedding gift.
Five Centuries of Royal Jewellery at The King’s Gallery
From the Diamond Diadem to a milk tooth set in a thistle brooch, the first exhibition to explore 500 years of British royal jewellery opens at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, on 25 June 2027.
Chanel ‘Signes & Symboles’: The Secret Language of Gabrielle Chanel
With ‘Signes & Symboles’, Chanel transforms the intimate emblems of Gabrielle Chanel — the camellia, the star, the sun and the lion — into a contemporary High Jewellery language of colour, geometry and talismanic meaning.
Chaumet’s ‘A Journey through Nature’: When Jewellery Becomes Sensation
Chaumet’s ‘A Journey through Nature’ transforms flowers, herbs and spices into a sensory progression through freshness, sweetness and aromatic warmth.
Queen Elizabeth I, Preserved in Amber
A rare amber pendant depicting Queen Elizabeth I comes to Sotheby’s London this July. Attributed to Königsberg craftsmen around 1600, the jewel preserves the Virgin Queen in a luminous heart of Baltic amber, where portraiture, optics and royal symbolism converge.
Before the Ocean Dream Had a Name: The Arslanian Story
The family who cut the Ocean Dream speaks for the first time. Sahag Arslanian reveals the year-long journey from rough to record-breaking gem — and why you never let go of a stone like this.
Unseen for a Century: Catherine the Great’s Diamonds and an Imperial Fabergé Necklace Return to Sotheby’s
Sewn to the silk of Catherine the Great’s gowns, then vanished for a century. The unlikely tale of how her diamond flowers — and an Imperial Fabergé necklace — found their way back.
