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Piaget Rose or Alhambra

Piaget · Van Cleef & Arpels

Piaget Rose ring in rose gold: a full-blown rose whose petals are paved with diamonds, on a transparent ground.
Image © Piaget

Piaget

Piaget Rose

A rose in layered gold petals, modelled on the 80-petal rose named after Yves Piaget, with a diamond at its heart.

Alhambra

Van Cleef & Arpels

Alhambra

A four-leaf clover cut from stone and ringed with a double row of gold beads, repeated along a chain like a string of charms.

In 1982 a Meilland rose won the Geneva new-rose competition and was named for Yves Piaget; in 2012 it became Piaget Rose, layered petals of rose gold, sometimes paved, sometimes opened around a stone. The Alhambra was already forty-four years old by then, a stone clover in a beaded gold frame that Van Cleef & Arpels drew in 1968. Piaget's is one real, specific flower; the clover is a sign of luck, built to repeat along a chain.

Piaget Piaget Rose vs Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra, facts side by side
FactPiaget RoseAlhambra
Introduced20121968
SchoolGenevaPlace Vendôme
Materialsrose gold, white gold, diamond, sapphire, emerald, tourmaline, garnet, aquamarine, amethystyellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond, mother-of-pearl, onyx, malachite, carnelian, enamel
MovesNoNo
From€1,490€1,600
Top of line€61,000€211,000

Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.