Sunflower or Bouton d'or
Harry Winston · Van Cleef & Arpels
Sunflower
Eight matched stones ring a single round brilliant like petals around a seed head, laid out with a compass for strict symmetry.
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.
Gold discs or matched stones: two ways of building a flower from repeated round parts. Van Cleef & Arpels' Bouton d'or, revived in 2016 from a 1936 sequin motif, packs polished yellow-gold discs, each with a stone at its centre, into rows and rings like a buttercup's head. Harry Winston's Sunflower, from 1950, arranges exactly eight stones around a single brilliant in platinum. The result is a dense, warm buttercup beside a spare, measured, white sunflower.
| Fact | Sunflower | Bouton d'or |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1950 | 2016 |
| School | New York | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | platinum, diamond, sapphire, ruby | yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond, chalcedony, onyx, carnelian, mother-of-pearl |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | Not published | Not published |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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