Graff’s Romancing the Stones

Graff is renowned for the quality of its stones and over the years the British jeweller has bought and sold some of the world’s rarer diamonds, including the 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona, The Graff Venus (a D Flawless heart-shaped diamond weighing 118.88 carats), and the 24.78-carat Graff Pink. 

During Paris couture week, the jeweller did not disappoint showcasing its remarkable inventory at its recently opened flagship boutique on Rue Saint Honoré. Amongst the star pieces was an exceptional sapphire necklace featuring a rare 58-carat emerald cut royal blue sapphire elegantly framed with diamonds, and a pair of diamond earrings with 20-carat D Flawless emerald cut diamonds that had been cut and polished from the 476-carat Meya Prosperity diamond, a rough diamond from Sierra Leone that Graff acquired in 2017. Also on display were several important rings featuring Type IIa D Flawless white diamonds – the purest diamonds – and a dazzling pair of pendant earrings with four Colombian emeralds that together weighed 13.80 carats surrounded by 36 pear-shaped and round diamonds.

 The Parisian presentation also included pieces from the Threads collection, a new graphic collection that stars a seemingly random lattice of small threads paved with diamonds, an interpretation by Anne-Eva Geffroy, Graff’s design director, of our ever-connected world.

 For Geffroy, the graphic effect of interconnected diamonds epitomises the current “new wave of modern jewels, featuring bold design motifs.”

 Each piece in the collection was designed to rest like “a network of gems upon the skin,” she explains, with the sleek lines of the custom-cut diamonds accentuating the graphic silhouette of the jewels and timepieces. Amongst the most striking pieces is a Thread necklace showcasing blazing yellow diamonds nestled within the diamond stitches.

 The designer also created several additions to her ‘Inspired by Twombly’ collection that translates into seamless ribbons of diamonds and gemstones inspired by the American artist Cy Twombly’s calligraphic paint strokes. Amongst these new items was a diamond necklace with a 32-carat Burmese sapphire elegantly dangling from a diamond bow, as well as sapphire and diamond earrings looping in a free-flow form, a technical feat for Graff’s master mounters who have to set the stones invisibly to create the illusion of a never ending spiral of gems.