Flying towards spring: it is one of the two themes inspired by nature of Chopard high jewelery 2016,. colorful butterflies alight with their graceful wings on the foliage of airy bracelets and necklaces from titanium frame. very spectacular pieces from so intricate designs and with the number of stones that, if they were made of gold, there would be the risk of making too heavy jewelry and so uncomfortable. But the choice of titanium is not limited to its characteristic lightness, in fact, the other advantage of this metal is that it lends itself to be colored in a view range of hues. And, in this case the wise use of the nuances that accompanies the color camouflages the mount stones, making it even more mild the jewel. Certainly there is a great capacity for innovation combined skill artisan goldsmith, made even more evident by a cuff that encloses a real finery: two removable butterflies, made of topazes, which can respectively be worn as earrings and brooch. The necklace however, is in the chromatic scale of blue and red stones with a striking tanzanite drop of 14 carats.
In fact all the jewels of the collection are meant to arouse the feeling of wonder, the same that you feel in the face of the most incredible events of nature. So even a second bracelet, simpler than the first theory, with its seven oval amethysts surrounded by diamonds and sapphires, as flowers with lacy petals and surrounded by a fence made garlands of emeralds and amethysts drop-shaped, not it can but arouse admiration. The Fleurs d’Opales bouquet, second theme already released last July (https://gioiellis.com/fiori-opale-chopard/ ), blooms again with two other rings: two magnificent opals, milky white and the other black Australian surrounded by a myriad of colored stones, including the rare and expensive garnet demantoide, a variety of green color like fire that exceeds even the diamond. Another ring by different style, but always great is that with a central tanzanite, diamonds, sapphires and garnets spessartine around to form a precious lace, with two Tanzanians pear-cut on the shank because in fine jewelery even the most hidden details matter. So wherever you glanced the wow factor is guaranteed. M.d.B.
