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Torsade de Chaumet ring, 3.5 mm, rose gold
Image © Chaumet

Chaumet · 2021

Torsade de Chaumet

Ropes of gold and diamonds twisting freely round a straight line of stones, after the spiral frieze that climbs the Vendôme Column outside the house's windows.

Introduced
2021 — Presented as high jewellery in July 2021.
Idea
The knot and the link
School
Place Vendôme
Materials
white gold, diamond, ruby, emerald, sapphire

Torsade de Chaumet at Chaumet

The story

Presented in July 2021, a year after the restored 12 Vendôme reopened, the collection takes the torsade, a twist long used by the house, and sets it to the bronze frieze winding up the column in the square. The first pieces, a tiara and a lasso necklace among them, were all white gold with diamonds, Mozambique rubies, Colombian emeralds and Ceylon sapphires.

Lineage

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    Chaumet also spirals after a monument: the frieze winding up the Vendôme Column, itself modelled on Trajan's in Rome.

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