Graff : Crowning glory

A pink and white diamond multifunctional flower and stem brooch, containing three D Flawless and one D Internally Flawless pear shape diamonds cut from the 550ct Letseng Star.

Her features are perfectly relaxed, her gaze is confident, her pose entirely natural. This is somewhat surprising, as many of us might feel just a little bit shaken if our head were adorned in this manner. While all that glitters is not gold, everything sparkling in her hair is eminently precious : no less than 22 High Jewellery creations worth half a billion dollars adorn the hairstyle of this glamorous beauty. With this re-edition of the Hair & Jewel concept that caused a sensation in the 1970s by presenting a young woman whose hair was adorned in a million dollars’ worth of jewellery, the prestigious firm bearing his name is celebrating Laurence Graff’s 60 eminently successful years in the business.  Among the rings, pendants, brooches and earrings all representing one-of-a-kind creations, Hair & Jewel beats several records : a pair of earrings set with heart shape diamonds totalling over 50 carats, cut from the famous 550ct Letseng star ; a ring set with an approximately 52-carat emerald-cut diamond… One might be tempted to tug at the hair of this femme fatale with her sophisticated hairdo…


Brice Lechevalier is editor-in-chief of GMT and Skippers, which he co-founded in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He has also been CEO of WorldTempus since it joined the GMT Publishing stable, of which he is director and joint shareholder. In 2012 he created the Geneva Watch Tour, and he has been an advisor to the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève since 2011. Also closely involved in sailing, he has published the magazine of the Société Nautique de Genève since 2003, and was one of the founders of the SUI Sailing Awards in 2009 and the Concours d’Elégance for motor boats at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2015.

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