Splash, a interchangeable Mikimoto brooch, presented in Paris.
The king of the pearls, Mikimoto, did Splash in Paris. It is called this, in fact, an interchangeable jewel, which can be used as a brooch, or attach to a necklace: it was presented in the Place Vendôme store. The brooch, in fact, has a shape that is reminiscent as one spray of many drops of water, the one that is formed when throwing something on a liquid surface. Except that the spray in this case consist of 13 Akoya pearls carefully selected and mounted on white gold with a 3.6 carat diamonds. Considered the beads are found in water, therefore, the reference is not at all out of place. The company founder Kokichi Mikimoto, in 1893, on the island of Kashikojima, Japan, invented the technique of pearl farming. Today the Akoya pearls, South Sea or the baroque are the result of that innovation: it is a splash that has lasted for over a century. Margherita Donato