Bee de Chaumet or Butterfly
Chaumet · Graff
Bee de Chaumet
The bee reduced to the cell it builds: a gold hexagon, repeated side by side into bands, hoops and pavé, with the insect itself landing only on the larger pieces.
Butterfly
The butterfly drawn in diamonds, from a pavé outline with an open centre to full wings of pear-shape and marquise stones.
Pear-shape and marquise diamonds become the wings of the Graff butterfly, or a line of pavé traces an open outline with a second tiny butterfly inside. Bee de Chaumet keeps the insect mostly offstage and works from its architecture, the hexagon of the comb, repeated into stacking gold bands and hoops since 2011. The butterfly is a picture of the animal. The honeycomb is a picture of its work, with Napoleon's emblem landing on top only now and then.
| Fact | Bee de Chaumet | Butterfly |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 2011 | — |
| School | Place Vendôme | London |
| Materials | rose gold, white gold, yellow gold, diamond, sapphire | white gold, diamond, sapphire, ruby, tourmaline |
| Moves | stacks | No |
| From | Not published | €1,900 |
| Top of line | €7,400 | €196,000 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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