Opera or Le Petit Cactus
Buccellati · Mellerio
Opera
The Buccellati emblem, a four-petalled rosette of winding lines, cut out and worn as the jewel itself: in engraved gold, in diamond pavé, or laid over a pierced tulle lattice.
Le Petit Cactus
The flower of the vanilla cactus, which opens for one night a year, made as a small burst of rose gold stamens around a single stone.
Laure-Isabelle Mellerio drew Le Petit Cactus in 2019 as tiny rose-gold bursts of stamens, each around one stone, after the vanilla cactus that flowers one night a year, and scattered them on fine chains, studs and rings. Buccellati's Opera works larger and flatter, the house rosette engraved, paved or laid over tulle openwork, with cuffs that Andrea Buccellati worked on personally for the first collection in 2015.
| Fact | Opera | Le Petit Cactus |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 2015 | 2019 |
| Designer | — | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio |
| School | Milan & Valenza | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | yellow gold, white gold, rose gold, platinum, diamond, mother-of-pearl, chalcedony, sapphire, emerald | rose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, other |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | Not published | €440 |
| Top of line | — | €4,100 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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