Blossom or Opera

A year and two cities apart. Buccellati presented Opera in Paris in July 2015, cutting out its own emblem, a four-petalled rosette of winding lines with Renaissance and Baroque ancestors, and wearing it as the jewel, in engraved gold, in pavé or over a pierced tulle lattice. Boodles followed in spring 2016 with Blossom, whose flower comes from the sakura rather than from heraldry: small cherry heads in three golds, their petals beaded with diamonds.