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balance signature ring in yellow gold: five white Akoya pearls in a row on a straight gold bar above a thin band
Image © TASAKI

TASAKI · 2010

balance

Akoya pearls of one size set shoulder to shoulder on a straight gold bar, held perfectly level like a spirit gauge at rest.

From €1,030on the TASAKI site, October 2026

Introduced
2010 — TASAKI dates the debut to 2010; Vo+ ties the launch to the house's 2009 relaunch, the year Thakoon Panichgul was hired.
Designer
Thakoon Panichgul
Idea
The pearl
School
Tokyo
Materials
yellow gold, white gold, rose gold, pearl, diamond

balance at TASAKI

The story

New York designer Thakoon Panichgul made balance his first collection for the new TASAKI COLLECTION LINE in 2010, a year after the house brought him in as creative director. It took the Akoya pearl off the knotted strand and lined it up in a hard horizontal row, and the house's own retelling links the five pearls to keepsakes founder Shunsaku Tasaki carried from childhood. The bar has since been doubled, stepped, crossed and paved into more than twenty variants, from one-pearl charms to diamond chokers.

The ladder

  1. Entry Pendentif "petit" balance class charm perles, or SAKURAGOLD 18K (P-16966-18KSG) €1,030
  2. Signature Bague balance signature, or jaune 18K, perles Akoya (R-4398-18KYG) €3,590
  3. Top of line Choker balance palace, or blanc 18K (P-17237-18KWG) €447,000

Prices as published by TASAKI in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Akoya cultured pearl strand of matched white pearls laid in a circle, with a small yellow gold clasp

    Answers · 2010

    Akoya Cultured Pearl Strand, MIKIMOTO (1893)

    Balance takes the matched Akoya of the strand and lines them up on a straight gold bar, level as a spirit gauge.

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On the map
Akoya cultured pearl strand of matched white pearls laid in a circle, with a small yellow gold clasp
Image © MIKIMOTO

Akoya Cultured Pearl Strand

MIKIMOTO · 1893 From €5,850
Jeux de Rubans ring: a white Akoya pearl beside a looped ribbon of diamond-set white gold
Image © MIKIMOTO

Jeux de Rubans

MIKIMOTO From €4,800
Les Pétales Place Vendôme ring: a white Akoya pearl beside two curved petals paved with diamonds in white gold
Image © MIKIMOTO

Les Pétales Place Vendôme

MIKIMOTO From €7,200
Laurence Graff Signature open bangle in white gold with angular faceted surfaces and a band of pavé diamonds at the centre
Image © Graff

Laurence Graff Signature

Graff From €1,150
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
Africa necklace of graduated hand-engraved yellow-gold beads laid in a circle on an off-white ground.
Image © Marco Bicego

Africa

Marco Bicego From €950
Albion ring in 18k yellow gold, 11 mm: a cushion-cut Hampton blue topaz in a frame of pavé diamonds on a split cable shank, on a white ground.
Image © David Yurman

Albion

David Yurman From €900
Pepita bracelet: a circle of smooth, slightly irregular rose-gold beads closed by a white-metal T-bar, on a white ground
Image © DoDo

Pepita

DoDo · 2000 From €90

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