…the 1992 masterpiece
Almost a year since the amazing Venus bracelet came up for auction at Sotheby’s and I still cannot stop thinking about it.
Designed by Jean Mouclier in 1992 the bracelet was made by the house of Georges Lenfant and sold by Chaumet.
Designed as an astrolabe, this interplanetary bracelet features Earth in a lapis lazuli and gold, joined by a polished gold Venus and a comet paved with 123 brilliant-cut diamonds and with a tail, set on one of the three rings, of 194 calibré-cut brilliants. The trajectories are fastened on rings of gold. Diamonds in total estimated to weigh approximately 20.00 – 25.00 carats.
Jean Mouclier himself said the bracelet was a tribute to movie stars.
Jewellery is a voyage through the precious and the spiritual. To come close to the latter, one must make as little use of reality as possible. The essence of a jewel is in its conception, in the eye, the heart, the hand of the jeweller, and not in the geometrical dimensions of the object.
Designer
Mouclier, graduate of the Académie Internationale de Stylisme de Paris, received a Diamonds-International Awards in Tokyo in 1992. Starting out in the glass industry where he, amongst other things, designed perfume bottles, he throughout his career collaborated with prestigious fashion houses.
By way of Dior Mouclier later became the head of the design studio at La Maison Cartier where he significantly influenced the brand’s creative direction.
Il n’y a que les esprits légers pour ne pas juger sur les apparences. Le vrai mystère du monde est le visible, et non l’invisible.
Only shallow minds do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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