Montana Sapphire and Black Opal Butterfly Brooch. Chaumet’s Lumieres d’Eau high jewellery necklace, created for the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris, is set with a 59.58 ct cabochon-cut white opal and opal motifs from Ethiopia, round and oval-cut violet sapphires from Ceylon and Madagascar, oval-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds, and faceted diamond and amethyst beads. Carat total weight: baguette green tourmalines, 3.72 black opals, 3.56 round aquamarines, 2.94 round green tourmalines, 1.40 oval aquamarines. Earrings of black opals, green tourmalines and aquamarines in platinum. Boucheron’s Indian Palace opal and diamond ring, from the French maison’s Paris Biennale collection, Fleur des Indes, was inspired by coloured pools of water. Carat total weight: emerald-cut pink tourmalines, 20.63 fire opals, 12.63 yellow diamonds, 5.12. Designed from an archival sketch, this bracelet of yellow diamonds, fire opals, tourmalines and a center garnet glows in 18k gold. Louis Vuitton Acte V Genesis necklace featuring a 87.92ct Australian black opal and Vuitton’s signature star-cut diamonds Tiffany & Co. Here is my personal selection of outstanding opal creations. Among the most fascinating, romantic and mysterious gemstones, they are living a great momentum in jewellery, starring in quite a few high-jewellery collections.
Opals are unique – no two opals are the same, even if they originate from the same place.
“The Path of Enlightenment” necklace contains 180 magnificent opals from Lightning Ridge, Australia, a famous opal producing area. As they bend, they break up into the colors of the rainbow, called spectral colors. Opal is known for its unique display of flashing rainbow colors called play-of-color. As the lightwaves travel between the spheres, the waves diffract, or bend. Opal is the product of seasonal rains that drenched dry ground in regions such as Australia’s semi-desert “outback.” The showers soaked deep into ancient underground rock, carrying dissolved silica (a compound of silicon and oxygen) downwards.
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