Joséphine or Albion

Chaumet signs Joséphine in its setting, a set of scrolled arcs rising to a pear-cut stone, a diadem compressed after two and a half years and many prototypes. David Yurman does the same on Albion with the twisted cable that is the house motif, split along the shank and leading to a soft cushion of colour in a slim bezel. The stone matters less than what holds it. Paris recalls an empress; New York repeats its own twist.