Signature de Nacre cuff

EDITOR'S REVIEW

Chanel has mastered a technical challenge in creating this Signature de Nacre cuff from the Signature de Chanel haute joaillerie collection, inspired by the French fashion house’s famous matelassé quilt pattern. Mother-of-pearl is notoriously brittle, making it hard to work with, yet Chanel's master craftspeople have managed to carve dark mother-of-pearl squares, which have been tiled in homage to the matelassé pattern. Each square has had to be slightly curved in order for the cuff to be curved, which again is a technical feat. This white gold cuff has also been decorated with 496 brilliant-cut white diamonds, weighing a total of 20.3cts.