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.
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.
Six opals presented during a 1936 tour of Australia, a coronation watched across the world, a red-carpet return: the Cartier jewel of Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, reaches Geneva.
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.
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’ transforms flowers, herbs and spices into a sensory progression through freshness, sweetness and aromatic warmth.
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.
From the lotus and the winged goddess to the queens who once wore its jewels: some 180 creations in which Van Cleef & Arpels tells its Egyptian story anew.
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.
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.