Crafted with Passion and Expertise

Key Highlights

• The Tea Field necklace is a CHAUMET High Jewellery creation requiring 1,400 hours of craftsmanship.
• Its centrepiece is a 23.81-carat Colombian emerald of exceptional provenance.
• The mounting is executed in sculptural white gold and platinum.
• The piece belongs to CHAUMET‘s A Journey Through Nature high jewellery universe.
• The campaign was published directly by CHAUMET, underscoring the maison’s savoir-faire narrative.

A Parisian Maison and Its Nature-Inspired Vision

Founded in Paris and long regarded as one of the most distinguished names in French jewellery, CHAUMET has built its identity on a union of botanical sensitivity and exacting gemstone craft. The Tea Field necklace arrives within that tradition, channelling the maison’s A Journey Through Nature creative direction into a single, monumental piece. Nature has always served as a primary source of inspiration at Place Vendôme, and this necklace translates that philosophy into three dimensions — sculpted metal, precious stone, and light working together as a coherent whole.

The choice of a tea field as the conceptual departure point speaks to CHAUMET’s ability to find the extraordinary in the quietly beautiful. Rolling rows of tea plants, the soft gradations of green foliage, the way morning light falls across a cultivated hillside — all of these sensory references appear to have shaped the piece’s organic silhouette and its selection of a deep, verdant emerald as the focal gem. For collectors across the GCC, where appreciation for rare coloured gemstones runs particularly deep, this combination of narrative and material excellence carries immediate resonance. To explore the full breadth of the maison’s current collections, the official CHAUMET website presents the complete high jewellery universe.

The 23.81-Carat Colombian Emerald

At the heart of the Tea Field necklace sits a 23.81-carat Colombian emerald — a weight and origin designation that places it firmly in the upper register of coloured stone collecting. Colombian emeralds are prized within the gem trade for their characteristic depth of colour and the warm, slightly yellowish-green saturation that distinguishes them from stones of other origins. Securing a natural Colombian emerald of this carat weight with consistent colour saturation requires years of sourcing expertise, and the decision to build an entire high jewellery piece around a single such stone signals CHAUMET’s confidence in its gemological rigour.

The setting chosen for this stone is sculptural white gold and platinum — materials that, in combination, lend both structural strength and a cool chromatic neutrality that allows the emerald’s colour to read without interference. Rather than framing the stone in a conventional manner, CHAUMET has treated the metalwork as an extension of the natural forms that inspired the piece, giving the mounting its own dimensional presence. The result is a necklace in which stone and setting appear to have grown from the same source rather than being assembled separately.

1,400 Hours of Savoir-Faire

The figure of 1,400 hours is the number that most clearly communicates the scale of commitment involved in the Tea Field necklace’s creation. Across CHAUMET’s Parisian atelier, highly specialised artisans — stone setters, goldsmiths, polishers — contribute distinct phases of expertise to a single object, with each stage demanding absolute precision before the next can begin. At 1,400 hours, the time investment alone places this piece in a category where the boundary between jewellery and fine art becomes genuinely blurred.

This level of craftsmanship also explains why CHAUMET frames the Tea Field necklace explicitly around its savoir-faire heritage. The maison’s positioning has always emphasised the human skill behind the object as much as the object itself — a philosophy shared by other great Parisian high jewellery houses. For enthusiasts who also follow PIAGET or VAN CLEEF & ARPELS for their combined mastery of gemstones and precious metal work, CHAUMET’s approach will feel both familiar and distinctly its own. The official campaign film can be viewed in full on CHAUMET’s YouTube channel.

Why It Matters

For GCC collectors and high jewellery connoisseurs, the Tea Field necklace represents precisely the kind of singular, documented creation — verifiable gemstone provenance, extraordinary time investment, and a coherent creative narrative — that distinguishes a true collector’s piece from production jewellery. CHAUMET’s transparent communication of craft hours and carat weight reflects the standards that discerning buyers in Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha have come to expect from a maison of this standing.

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