Graff Tilda’s Bow High Jewellery Necklace: 62 Carats in One Loop

The Piece in Focus

• Graff’s Tilda’s Bow High Jewellery necklace is a 62-carat diamond composition arranged in a single continuous bow, combining oval Fancy Intense Yellow diamonds with more than 560 white diamonds set in a design the Maison describes as “one effortless loop.”
• Every ribbon edge is outlined in a continuous band of yellow pavé, creating a golden border that gives the bow’s silhouette visual depth beyond what a monochromatic setting could produce.
• Custom-cut baguette diamonds are individually shaped by Graff’s master cutters to follow the bow’s three-dimensional curves, alongside round brilliant-cut stones across broader surfaces.
• The piece is handcrafted entirely at the Graff workshop in London and sits within a wider Tilda’s Bow campaign shot by photographer Liz Collins.

Setting and the Bow’s Architecture

Sixty-two carats across a single looping form is a compositional commitment that leaves no room for structural compromise. Graff’s setters position oval Fancy Intense Yellows at the composition’s centre, surrounded by a field of more than 560 white diamonds whose crisp brilliance amplifies the warmth of the coloured stones by contrast. The yellow stones read, against that cooler ground, as concentrated points of radiance rather than decorative additions.

The yellow pavé edge is the necklace’s most precise technical distinction. A continuous band of small yellow diamonds lines every ribbon edge, giving the bow’s silhouette a warm golden outline that functions independently of the larger centre stones. Graff describes the resulting effect as “a study in light and movement” — and the phrase is accurate. The eye traces the ribbon’s curves through that warm border as much as through the white diamond surface it contains.

Stone Artistry: Fancy Intense Yellow

Fancy Intense Yellow occupies a precise position on the coloured diamond grading scale, sitting above Fancy Light and Fancy and below only Fancy Vivid. At this grade, the yellow is unmistakably saturated — a deep, radiant gold that holds its character under any quality of light. Graff’s relationship with yellow diamonds of this calibre is long-established; the House has handled some of the most significant yellow stones in the historical record.

The optical behaviour that makes these stones so effective in the Tilda’s Bow necklace is their chromatic brilliance. Where white diamonds return colourless fire, Fancy Intense Yellows shift between gold, honey, and citrine as the surrounding illumination changes. Graff has described its yellow diamonds as capturing “the brilliance of pure sunlight in every facet” — and within this necklace, that quality is in direct conversation with the white diamond field that surrounds them. For GCC collectors who wear high jewellery under the particular quality of Gulf light, the interplay is especially pronounced.

Atelier Work and Collection Context

The Tilda’s Bow bow motif requires the setting to follow a complex three-dimensional curve that twists, loops, and crosses itself while reading as a freshly tied ribbon. Achieving that appearance in stone and metal requires custom-cut baguette diamonds shaped individually by Graff’s London workshop to track every winding section of the form. The atelier, operating as the single location where every Graff creation is designed, set, and finished, is the direct source of that precision.

Tilda’s Bow draws its name from a member of the Graff family, and the collection reflects the structure of a Maison founded by Laurence Graff in 1960 and now led by his son François Graff, with three generations actively involved. The bow as a motif carries that family dimension — it binds, secures, and can be untied and retied. Across the wider campaign, which spans necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and timepieces, the motif retains what Graff identifies as “feminine, delicate and rich in symbolism” while the design treatment keeps the loops and curves feeling organic. For collectors drawn to high jewellery houses such as Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, or Chopard, the Tilda’s Bow necklace represents Graff’s most considered statement on what coloured diamond high jewellery can achieve at 62 carats.

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