Quatre or Africa

Texture is the subject of both. Quatre, which Solange Azagury-Partridge assembled for Boucheron in 2004, stacks four archive patterns into one ring, grosgrain ribbing, a row of diamonds, Clou de Paris pyramids and a double gadroon, pressed together without solder. Africa uses a single texture throughout: Marco Bicego's burin scores each slightly irregular gold bead with thousands of fine lines, so the yellow gold takes on a soft satin glow.