Plume de Paon or Bouton d'or
Boucheron · Van Cleef & Arpels
Plume de Paon
A peacock feather drawn barb by barb in pavé, its eye marked by a single larger diamond, curling round the finger or falling from a chain.
Bouton d'or
Little discs of gold, each with a stone at its centre, massed in rows and rings like the head of a buttercup.
Polished gold discs, each centred on a stone, are the whole vocabulary of Bouton d'or. Van Cleef & Arpels first used them in 1936, close kin to the sequins of the period, and in 2016 massed them into buttercup heads with onyx, carnelian, chrysoprase or diamonds. Hair ornaments and brooches carried Boucheron's first peacock feathers, which the house dates to 1860. Today the Plume de Paon is pavé throughout and belongs to the Nature Triomphante family, beside Lierre de Paris.
| Fact | Plume de Paon | Bouton d'or |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1860 | 2016 |
| Designer | Frédéric Boucheron and Paul Legrand | — |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, diamond | yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond, chalcedony, onyx, carnelian, mother-of-pearl |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €6,950 | Not published |
| Top of line | €218,000 | — |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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