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Place Vendôme · Paris, since 1858

Boucheron

Boucheron treats gold like cloth: ribbed as grosgrain, gadrooned, faceted into Clous de Paris, a vocabulary drawn from a draper's son and kept in the archive since the 1860s. On the Place Vendôme since 1893, it pairs that tailoring with a naturalist's eye for peacock feathers, ivy and a black cat called Wladimir.

Founded by Frédéric Boucheron. Ideas from €1,490. Boucheron site

Serpent Bohème XS ring in yellow gold: a diamond-paved drop framed by gold beads, on a beaded band, on a white ground.
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Serpent Bohème

1968 From €1,860
Quatre Classique large ring: four joined bands in yellow gold, rose gold, white gold set with a row of diamonds, and dark brown PVD, on a white ground.
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Quatre

2004 From €1,490
Plume de Paon small ring in rose gold: a diamond-paved peacock feather wrapping the finger, with a larger diamond as the eye, on a white ground.
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Plume de Paon

1860 From €6,950
Wladimir the Cat ring in white gold: a cat's head paved with white diamonds, green stone eyes and a green gem necklace, on a white ground.
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Animaux de Collection

1866 From €13,200
Jack de Boucheron three-turn piece in yellow gold: a coiled flexible gold cable with its faceted jack-shaped clasp ends, on a white ground.
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Jack de Boucheron

2019 From €3,940

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  • Two Force 10 bracelets in rose gold with diamond-set shackles, one on a diamond line, one on a gold chain, on a cream ground with water drops

    Jack de Boucheron after Force 10, FRED

    Jack takes up the supple cable closed by an industrial fitting and swaps the shackle for a faceted audio-jack plug.

  • Trinity ring, classic model: three interlinked bands of yellow, rose and white gold, on a pale grey ground.

    Quatre after Trinity, Cartier

    Where Trinity lets three golds roll apart, Quatre presses four bands, each carrying an archive motif, into one solid ring.

  • Serpenti necklace in white gold paved with diamonds, the snake's head and tapering tail lying on embossed BVLGARI paper

    Serpent Bohème after Serpenti, Bulgari

    Twenty years after Rome wound its serpent round the wrist, Boucheron kept only the head: a gold drop ringed with beads.

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