Boodles · 2000

Raindance

Round diamonds of unequal sizes, each in its own collet, scattered across open platinum bands like raindrops landing on a window.

From €5,128on the Boodles site, October 2026

Introduced: 2000 — Not dated on boodles.com. Derived from The Jewellery Editor (21 January 2016), which speaks of 'the 16 years since its first launch'; Boodles now sells a 'Raindance 25' collection.
Designer: Rebecca Hawkins
Idea: The pavé sphere
School: London
Materials: platinum, yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald, aquamarine, enamel

The story

Boodles' head of design Rebecca Hawkins spent months placing the stones so they would look random and balanced at once, and kept returning to the arrangement until it settled. The Victoria and Albert Museum chose the ring for its permanent display of British design. From the platinum-and-diamond original it has spread to sapphires, rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, coloured enamel and pink diamonds, and to bracelets, earrings and two-row necklaces.

The ladder

Entry Raindance Half-Hoop Platinum Ruby Ring (€5,127.95) €5,128
Signature Raindance Classic Platinum Diamond Ring (€16,881.95) €16,882
Top of line Raindance Large Two-Row Platinum Diamond Necklace, 25.70 ct (€331,385.95) €331,386

Prices as published by Boodles in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

Winston Cluster

Answers · 2000
Winston Cluster, Harry Winston
Raindance shares the Cluster's rule that the stones, not the metal, draw the piece, and scatters them like rain across open bands.