STYLE | JEWELLERY
Inspired by the world’s most perfect pear-shaped diamond, the House
of Harry Winston embarked on a three-year journey to create a collection
unrivalled in scale, writes Emilie Yabut-RazonSPARKLING LEGACY
W
e first heard of The Winston Legacy, a 101.73-carat pear-shaped
diamond, back in 2013. Heralded by the Christie’s auction house as
“the most perfect diamond ever offered for sale,” the internally flawless,
colourless stone, cut from a 236-carat rough discovered at Botswana’s
Jwaneng mine, was acquired by the House of Harry Winston for
US$26.7 million. Inspired by this perfect diamond, the house’s team of gemmologists,
designers and craftsmen created the Legacy collection, a 22-piece series that uses
only large D colour—that is, colourless—internally flawless diamonds as the focal point
of its pieces. The designs reference iconic jewellery from the Harry Winston archives,
specifically works by two of its most prolific designers. Jewellery connoisseurs will
agree that a collection of this calibre, the world’s largest incorporating only D colour,
internally flawless diamonds, comes along only once in a lifetime.DELICATE TOUCH
A master craftsman works on
the settings of necklace158 hong kong tatler. september 2017