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Luxurious Belle Époque Bangle With Diamonds & Verneuil Sapphires in Platinum, circa 1915

€ 5,790.00 ^*

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Luxurious Belle Époque Bangle With Diamonds & Verneuil Sapphires in Platinum, circa 1915

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

We discovered this elegant and precious bangle in Paris. It is made entirely of platinum, infinitely fine and detailed and richly set with diamonds. The design is linear and wraps around the wrist without interruption. Two lines of black enamel on the sides form the frame and prelude to the design. They enclose a row of sparkling diamonds in old cuts. The diamonds are arranged in groups of four stones, which appear to be held in place by crossed bands of sapphire. The ring is a child of the early 20th century: it is both connected to the past and open to modernity. Its design is elegant and refined, designed and executed entirely in the taste of the Belle Époque. The sapphire cross bands and the fine engravings on the sides breathe the spirit of the Louis-Seize style. At the same time, however, the circular saw cuts, delicate bars and the almost inexplicably fine workmanship of the hoop were a technical sensation at the beginning of the 20th century. They were only possible in platinum, which was also the most expensive precious metal in jewelry. Yellow gold would have been too soft here, but shortly before, the technology had not been developed to such an extent that platinum could be processed at all. The ring is therefore a special luxury in keeping with the times. The sapphires also tell of modern achievements, as they were synthesized in the Verneuil process in the laboratory - one of the greatest innovations of the time. The first sapphires and rubies created in this way by Auguste Verneuil went on sale in 1902. The stones produced in this way were as clear and luminous as the most beautiful natural gemstones, and the sapphires set here also shine in an intense blue. It was typical of the 1910s to combine these stones with real diamonds and set them close together in a calibrated cut to create fine lines. The ring combines old and new, past and future: it is sure to bring joy to many generations to come.

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In 1891, Auguste Verneuil achieved a major breakthrough in the technique of cultivating gemstones, which revolutionized the world of jewelry at the turn of the century. Verneuil's laboratory-developed rubies were almost indistinguishable from natural stones in terms of structure and color and became the dernier cri of the fashion world, making jewelry set with large stones more affordable. An essay by the German mineralogist Dr. Alfred Eppler, who wrote about synthetic rubies in the Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung in 1910, shows just how widespread they were at the time they were created: "Since science and technology have progressed so far as to produce beautiful artificial rubies, some of which are so exquisitely successful that even the most subtle tools of the scholar threaten to fail in distinguishing them from natural ones, why should their use be restricted?" (Alfred Eppler: Synthetische Edelsteine, in: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung 7 (1910), p. 61f., here p. 62).

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€ 5,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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