Joséphine Aigrette Timepiece

A THOUSAND AND ONE Joséphine

The Joséphine collection is updated with creations reflecting the many facets of the personality of the Empress, the first major client of Maison Chaumet. Joséphine Aigrette and Joséphine Ronde d’Aigrettes jewellery is associated with a uniquely shaped watch, evoking an empress as fashion icon, while Joséphine Valse Impériale and Joséphine Duo Éternel High Jewellery recalls the splendour of festivities at court and the legendary couple she formed there with Napoléon. These new items can be mixed and matched with the collection’s existing creations to compose a unique style.

Equal parts refined and ahead of her time, Joséphine set herself apart through her contemporary femininity. A woman of strong character, she asserted herself with elegance, sure in her choices and tastes.

A woman of the court and empress of fashion, she revealed her multitude of facets in response to the frenetic pace at which she lived life.The art of the Empress’s style and personality never cease to inspire the Joséphine collection, which transforms the tiara into a ring and magnifies the pear cut of which she was particularly fond. Creations with the femininity of today, inspired by a resolutely modern woman of yesterday.

Figure of style

JEWELLERY AND TIMEPIECE JEWELLERY

Joséphine RONDE D’AIGRETTES

Precious mix and match

By playing with trends, the new Joséphine Ronde d’Aigrettes collection offers pieces in which pear cuts are assembled together.

Whether asymmetrical compositions on earrings, bracelets and rings conceived for stacking, or graphic duos on pendants, rings and earrings, Joséphine Ronde d’Aigrettes features rose or white gold, and diamonds either solo or paired with an aquamarine note.

Creations to mix with Joséphine Aigrette rings, bracelets, pendants and earrings, for endless interplays of colour and style.

Joséphine AIGRETTE

The art of wearing a watch differently

Continuing the tradition of time-telling avant- garde jewels, the new Joséphine Aigrette-shaped watch challenges the codes of watchmaking and offers an original way of everyday wearing. This creation is precious and refined like a jewel, with its pavé or mirror-polished gold case, singular and feminine in its pear shape. The bracelet wraps the wrist in an unprecedented way, without hindrance or buckle.

In white or rose gold, pavé or not, in leather for the day, satin for the evening, and with a white or black dial or entirely in pavé diamonds, the Joséphine Aigrette jeweller y watch is an expression of Chaumet vir tuosity and detail. Reinterpreting the Maison’s historic art of trompe- l’oeil, the pear motif appears on the index set with a brilliant-cut diamond and adorns the dial with its graphic facets.

Joséphine in majesty

High Jewellery

Joséphine VALSE IMPÉRIALE

Lightness and grace

Inspired by Joséphine’s sovereign allure, the Joséphine Valse Impériale High Jewellery parure evokes the pomp of imperial festivities. Tracing an airy dance of diamonds, it pays tribute to the art of lightness that has always been a hallmark of the Maison’s creations.

Radiant as central stones, pear-shaped diamonds sweep with symmetrical curves, emphasising the elevation of a tiara, spilling as earrings worn in an ultra-contemporary manner, or hugging the neckline on a majestic necklace. Reflecting the vir tuosity of the 12 Vendôme workshop, the fils couteaux mounts seem to make the metal disappear, letting the stones shine out.

Joséphine DUO ÉTERNEL

Graphic toi et moi

Chaumet unveils Joséphine Duo Éternel , a contemporary revisiting of the traditional form of the toi et moi ring, a perfect symbol of love. In an echo of the engagement ring given by Napoléon to the future Empress, this new High Jewellery collection perpetuates the Maison’s prized tradition of sentimental jewellery. Offering timeless pieces worn in a contemporary way, Joséphine Duo Éternel is distinguished by its asymmetrical compositions.

Rings feature gems arranged head-to-head, but there are also torque necklaces and a bracelet, whose refined line is accentuated by a gradient of diamonds, earrings worn on either side of the ear and, for the first time in the Joséphine collection, a brooch that can be worn by both her and him. These light parures are available as diamonds or diamonds and sapphires, echoing the Chaumet blue and Joséphine’s historic toi et moi ring.