The Most Dazzling High Jewellery Collections Of 2024

From the likes of Boucheron to Dior, the world's biggest Maisons pulled out all the stops for their high jewellery collections in 2024.

By Brandon Chia - published 8 Jul 2024

Exquisite, vibrant and filled with splendour—the latest high jewellery collections from the world’s biggest maisons, which debuted during the recent Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2024 Fashion Week in Paris, were truly breathtaking.

Be it the technicoloured sensations from the ateliers of Hermès or the new symphonic-inspired creations imagined and realised by Chaumet and Boucheron, every piece has a story worth telling. Below, we break down the themes behind the collections and the jewels that caught our magpie eyes.

LES FORMES DE LA COULEUR

Take a journey through colour with Pierre Hardy, creative director of Hermès jewellery and its newest high jewellery collection, which is inspired by how we see colours through the retinas in our eyes. The one-off Supracolor necklace featuring an array of gems from black spinels and chalcedony to chrysoprase, rose quartz and pink tourmaline is a perfect example as it demonstrates the diffraction of light waves through a prism sculpted from rutilated quartz with a triangle-cut diamond at its core.

CHAUMET EN SCÈNE

Chaumet tapped on the power of music, dance and magic for its latest high jewellery collection that features poetic designs across three chapters. Like a conductor, the maison crafted 39 pieces with spectacular rubies, sapphires and emeralds inspired by the heritage of Place Vendôme and its archives from the early 20th century and the more recent Chaumet est une Fête collection, unveiled in 2017. Other notable pieces include the Tango and Trompe L’oeil suits that sport neon blue Paraiba tourmalines and iridescent pearls.

CONTES DE FÉES

Every May, Chopard’s Haute Joaillerie workshops showcase its remarkable creativity and impeccable craftsmanship through its Red Carpet Collection designed by Caroline Scheufele to be adorned by actresses at the Cannes Film Festival. This year, Scheufele tapped into the world of fairy tales—Contes de Fées—to craft all 77 pieces with themes of magic, fantastic creatures and enchanting plant life. Expect an array of gemstones in all shapes and colours set in precious metals including anodised titanium with elaborate designs that give life to the amusing, the quirky and the dreamy wonderment that drives these riveting stories.

GALAXIA

GRAFF’s latest high jewellery collection—Galaxia—draws inspiration from the grand, infinite and gorgeous night sky in all its celestial glory through a dazzling assortment of gemstones in rare shapes and sizes. The magnificent pieces include a necklace featuring four-carat lozenge-shaped Colombian emeralds and diamonds and a pair of earrings boasting 21-carat fancy yellow radiant-cut diamonds surrounded by white diamonds. “Each jewellery creation is imbued with a figurative energy that is contemporary yet timeless while also remaining true to the legacy of the House. Flowing lines and curves are soft and elegant, while the stones themselves radiate a bold beauty,” says Anna-Eva Geffroy, design director at GRAFF.

OR BLEU

Creative director Claire Choisne’s Carte Blanche collections for Boucheron have always been one of the most highly anticipated showcases as the designer is known for bringing the most outlandish ideas to life. This year, the collection titled “Or Bleu” is an ode to water through 26 creations that are literally dripping in diamonds, sculpted from rock crystals and formed with titanium to resemble the waterfalls, glaciers and caves of Iceland. The maison pushes the boundaries of high jewellery further by including natural elements such as obsidian and black sand into several pieces, transforming them into bejewelled snapshots of the Nordic island.

AWAKENED HANDS, AWAKENED MINDS

Louis Vuitton has always been proud of their French roots and 2024 is a momentous year for France with the upcoming Olympics. As a tribute to this and the great inventors hailing from France, artistic director of the maison’s watch and jewellery division, Francesca Amfitheatrof has unveiled her sixth high jewellery collection with 220 masterpieces across 13 themes that encompass the prolific era that dictated the savoir-faire we’ve come to admire. “France in the 19th century was a phenomenal time of incredible change, and when Paris really became the centre of the world,” says Amfitheatrof. “The design language of Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds reflects that–all its intricacies, complications and innovations–turned into incredible jewels.”

THE DUALISM OF MILAN

Speaking of roots, Pomellato never shies away from their proud Milanese heritage that sparked the brand’s creation in 1967. With two chapters dubbed Monochromatic Treasures and Milanese Colour Prism, creative director Vincenzo Castaldo presents 51 pieces that use fluid shapes, colourful cabochon cuts and graphic prong settings to tell a tale of the city’s mix of rationalist architecture and skyscrapers, along with the postmodern design sensibilities spearheaded by Gio Ponti and the Memphis Group that played with colour and shapes.

DIORAMA & DIORIGAMI

The house of Dior holds the majestic splendour of flora and fauna close to its heart, often being reimagined across fashion and jewellery. This year’s high jewellery collection is an homage to the naturalistic motifs that Christian Dior surrounded himself with from the emblematic toile de Jouy to the ornamental fabrics that lined his original boutique. The fabulous pieces feature tableaus of animals leaping, fluttering and basking in flower gardens crafted from turquoise, chrysoprase, rubies and more precious gems.

ESSENSE OF EXTRALEGANZA

Piaget celebrated its 150th anniversary with an extravagant collection of jewels with bold gemstones in captivating settings that speak about the maison’s incomparable savoir-faire from the 60s and 70s that are often referenced in modern jewellery making. Gold is the main subject for this 96-piece collection, wrapping around rich gems such as malachite, garnet, sapphire, carnelian and turquoise to blend seamlessly into articulated designs and move with the body.

THE BOWS

Coquette-core is far from passé—take Mikimoto and its latest collection for example. The maison brought dramatic proportions to this bow-tastic trend with lace-like pieces with intertwining pearls and diamonds along with centre stones ranging from brilliant green tourmaline, juicy morganite and vibrant tanzanite that breathe life into the fluid creations that take inspiration from the Rococo, Renaissance, Baroque and Art Deco eras.

AETERNA

Also celebrating a special anniversary, Bvlgari has launched one of its biggest and brightest collections to date with over 500 pieces across jewellery, watches, bags and fragrances. But of course, the pièce de résistance is the Serpenti Aeterna necklace, which is the maison’s most precious creation with seven D flawless ultra clear pear-shaped diamonds totalling 140 carats, one for each year of the brand’s existence, set in a 3D wave structure in platinum embellished with another 698 baguette diamonds.