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Happy Diamonds Icons pendant in rose gold on a chain: a round glass-fronted locket with three loose diamonds inside, on a white ground.
Image © Chopard

Chopard · 1976

Happy Diamonds

Diamonds set free between two sapphire crystals, so they slide and tumble with every movement of the wearer.

From €2,170on the Chopard site, October 2026

Introduced
1976 — Born as a watch in 1976; the jewellery followed in the early 1980s with Caroline Scheufele's clown pendant.
Designer
Ronald Kurowski
Idea
The moving element
School
Geneva
Materials
yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond
Moves
slides

Happy Diamonds at Chopard

The story

In 1976 Chopard designer Ronald Kurowski, struck by sunlight in the spray of a Black Forest waterfall, freed diamonds from their settings and floated them over the dial; the watch won the Golden Rose of Baden-Baden that year. Karin Scheufele's remark that diamonds are happier when they are free became its motto. The jewellery began in the early 1980s with a clown pendant drawn by the young Caroline Scheufele, its belly full of moving diamonds, and grew into the round Happy Diamonds Icons pendants, rings and studs.

The ladder

  1. Entry Happy Diamonds Icons, bague, or jaune éthique, diamant, réf. @82A192-0000 €2,170
  2. Signature Happy Diamonds Icons, pendentif, or rose éthique, 3 diamants mobiles (0,15 ct), réf. 79A018-5001 €3,780
  3. Top of line Happy Clown, pendentif, or blanc éthique, diamants, réf. 792246-1001 €88,800

Prices as published by Chopard in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Happy Hearts bangle in rose gold: a mother-of-pearl heart beside a small open heart holding a loose diamond, on a white ground.

    Answered by · 2009

    Happy Hearts, Chopard (2009)

    Happy Hearts puts the loose diamond inside an open gold heart and pairs it with a solid heart of coloured stone.

  • Move Classique double-chain bracelet in white gold: an open gold cage holding three diamonds that slide along it, on a pale grey ground.

    Answered by · 2007

    Move, Messika (2007)

    Move takes the loose diamond out from under glass and lets it travel along an open gold cage.

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On the map
Move Classique double-chain bracelet in white gold: an open gold cage holding three diamonds that slide along it, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Messika

Move

Messika · 2007 From €750
Roulette flip ring in white gold: a small circle of diamonds held upright on a pavé diamond band
Image © Boodles

Roulette

Boodles From €3,127
Possession ring in rose gold: a turning band chased with fine vertical lines and set with one diamond, on a transparent ground.
Image © Piaget

Possession

Piaget · 1990 From €1,890
Sabbia ring: a rounded dome covered in white and brown diamonds of different sizes, on a rose-gold band, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Pomellato

Sabbia

Pomellato From €2,000
Clash de Cartier ring, medium model, in rose gold: rows of spikes around a central band of square studs, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Cartier

Clash de Cartier

Cartier · 2019 From €2,800
Granelli bracelet: a circle of dimpled rose-gold grains closed by a white-metal T-bar, on a white ground
Image © DoDo

Granelli

DoDo · 1994 From €50
Serpent Bohème XS ring in yellow gold: a diamond-paved drop framed by gold beads, on a beaded band, on a white ground.
Image © Boucheron

Serpent Bohème

Boucheron · 1968 From €1,860
Blossom Triple ring in white gold: three linked blossoms with diamond-set petals across the top of the band
Image © Boodles

Blossom

Boodles · 2016 From €2,502

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