HAUTE JOAILLERIE COLLECTION JULY 2023
The Bolt necklace Impératrice in rose gold and white gold is a tribute to Eugénie. The Empress was very fond of the lilac shade, the twilight color of Monet's water lilies, which was very popular under Napoleon III. Eugénie had a great passion for jewelry.
The 4.22-carat pink spinel sits majestically in the center of an opening Bolt, allowing play with the 3 tassels topped with pears of lavender spinel weighing 5 carats.
The pendants are a perfect illustration of the Rouvenat signature of the time, allowing this majestic medallion to be modulated at
.
The pendants are removable to be worn as ear pendants.
In 2021, the Rouvenat Jewellery House will acquire over 3,000 gouache drawings signed by Léon Rouvenat, founder of the House in 1851.
Gathered in 10 original notebooks whose black leather covers hold sheets sometimes painted with gold, sometimes pencilled with sketches, these living archives continue to awaken the creative imagination.
Among these notebooks, many successive pages feature the study of oval medallions. The various contours are traced with extreme precision. The centers are left empty, and no one can say what will have been mounted once jewelry has been completed... a cameo, a relic, the coaster of a photograph?
Inspired by these medallion designs, Frame rings are imagined as frames that highlight and protect the portrait within.
Because each central stone is unique, precious and admirable, we wanted to frame them, to
celebrate them, giving them their own story to tell over time.
The first Universal Exhibition of 1851 was held in London at the Crystal Palace, and Leon Rouvenat, a renowned
jeweller, decided to exhibit his creations under the glass roof of the jewelry pavilion.
Sandrine de Laage has designed a long, airy chain supporting a medallion in blackened silver and polished silver, holding a 1.03-carat bluish-gray spinel at its center. The large blackened silver links evoke the metal structures of this pavilion.
Under the Second Empire, bracelets and necklaces were the most popular ornaments, characterized by imposing decorative elements.
The Bolt Empire pays homage to this trend, crafted with great modernity by Sandrine de Laage, blendingrose gold, sometimes matte and sometimes sun-kissed, with a 2.57-carat Burmese cabochon sapphire.
The pearl necklace and tassel, weighing almost 70 carats, support the Bolt opening in rose gold, enhanced by the work of our jewellery artisans
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The grace and movement of the pompom, meticulously threaded and highlighted by a line of sapphires, accentuate the incredible femininity of the Bolt Empire.
The Bolt Victoire is the perfect representation of Rouvenat's renaissance, where the past meets the present.
The medallion, with its opening mechanism to release the gold, silver, diamond and black pearl tassel, is in non-rhodium-plated white gold.
It magnifies an antique brooch dating from the Victorian era, set with 12 old-cut diamonds on gold and
silver and supported by a knitted silver chain. The brooch could be affixed, without modification, to the central medallion, a perfectly adapted case.
Victorian jewelry is marked by the use of silver and the appearance of contrasting
jewels.
A Rouvenat signature and iconic motif at the heart of Bolt necklaces, the Tag ring is entirely paved with diamonds, with a central flower in polished and brushed gold. The delicate paving enhances the central diamond, the sides of the disk and the ring. It gives the Tag ring a jewel-like character.
