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.
Cartier’s new chapter, ‘Le Chœur des Pierres’, puts the stone first. Across 125 pieces the panther returns and Tutti Frutti is reborn, with six pink diamonds from the closed Argyle mine among the rarities.
Six single-owner collections converge at Bonhams London on 11 June 2026, led by a century-hidden Boucheron tiara and Dame Nellie Melba’s Cartier sautoir. Provenance is the story.
On 9 June 2026, a 31.62-carat pear-shaped fancy blue diamond — quietly familiar to those who follow the rarefied world of coloured stones — will once again take centre stage at Rockefeller Center. This is the story of The Azure Blue, a jewel that has changed costume but not character.
CHANEL unveils the Imprimé Lion necklace, Masterpiece of its new High Jewellery collection ‘Signes & Symboles’. Crowned by a 20.66-carat octagonal-cut sapphire, it is the only piece to gather Gabrielle Chanel’s four emblems — the Camellia, the Star, the Sun and the Lion — on a single jewelled fabric.
A Colombian gem, a late-Victorian convertible bangle, and the long arithmetic of a dynastic name.
Sotheby’s Geneva High Jewelry Sale on 12 May 2026 is led by a 6.03-carat fancy vivid blue diamond from the Cullinan mine, alongside De Beers Jwaneng diamonds and extraordinary signed jewels.
Arsen Yarman’s two-volume study restores nearly 2,000 Armenian goldsmiths to Ottoman history, tracing seals, signatures, and archival records that reveal the hidden authorship behind centuries of imperial jewellery and splendour.