Chaumet High Jewellery capsule collection 2025

Bamboo tiara in white and yellow gold, set with 4 brilliant-cut DE VVS diamonds of approx. 0.42 carat each, and brilliant-cut diamonds. All images courtesy Chaumet.


High Jewellery Capsule collection - Bamboo
A tribute to Asia, 

Nature is a constant source of inspiration for Chaumet's thematic High Jewellery creations. The Maison has been known for its quality and nature-inspired creations for more than 240 years. This was most recently showcased at one of the world's greatest stages, the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where we saw a number of celebrities wearing Chaumet High Jewellery creations, including nature-inspired emblems like the elegant Blé paraure (Eng. wheat, made as nature-like wheat spike architecture) from the Jardins thematic collection.

The Maison's first chapter of the thematic High Jewellery Capsule collection for 2025, titled Bamboo, is honoring Asian culture, as Chaumet draws inspiration from the enduring nature of this significant crop for Asia. By showcasing the magnificent beauty of bamboo in this introduction chapter of many capsule collections to come, Chaumet gives a nod to the Far East, its incredible cultural heritage and contemporary print on our modern times. Charles Leung who was recently appointed as the first Asian chief executive of the Parisian jeweller can be fully proud with the Maison and the 12 Vendôme artisans that did an extraordinary ouvre with this introductory chapter, to Leung's heritage too.

The Bamboo capsule collection consisting of ten creations, honors the majestic characteristics of a bamboo plant that is incredibly flexible and important to humans and animals, it takes a panda bear to break it, an impressive strength that is sublimely expressed in stems of diamonds that form tiara (above), necklace and even rings, earrings and brooches. 

This contrast-rich palette is also repeated on three bold brooches. The first can be transformed into a hair ornament, the second is made up of two distinct elements designed to be worn as a pair, while the third features highly flexible diamond bands.

Dazzling stems of diamonds used throughout the collection aptly symbolise bamboo's long life, which makes it a Chinese symbol of uprightness and an Indian symbol of friendship. Its historic role as a source of food, clothing and construction material; music instruments; and widespread use in early China as a medium for written documents, as early as the late Shang period (c. 1250 BC), makes bamboo a significant part of culture, innovation and exchange of ideas to the present day. It is not surprising that a native plant to all continents except for Europe, bamboo plant is today widely relevant; its fibers are used in the latest Christian Dior haute couture spring-summer 2025 collection as a support to crinolines dreamed up by Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri in her "Alice in Wonderland" meets punk-inspired collection. Similarly this new capsule collection continues, the Maison's longstanding ties to the natural world so dear to Empress Joséphine, an early avid collector of Chaumet masterpieces. 

Each of the thirteen workshop managers have reinvented the iconic theme of nature in their own unique way, reflecting the tastes of various eras. Rather than a nature-like representation of the emblematic flora, as in the earlier mentioned Blé creations, the new High Jewellery showcases bamboo in a more stylised form, thus giving room to splendid colour contrast between precious materials, diamonds and gemstones. However, each interpretation is always reflective of the moment that we live in.

Throughout the collection, Chaumet cleverly accentuates the bamboo foliage engraved in yellow gold and also dialogues in striking contrast with the white gold. As we see record gold prices in 2025, Chaumet aptly puts gold at the center of its creations, stunningly using round-cut cascades of diamonds merely as the background to incredible gold finishes for rings, brooches and necklace further adorned with gemstones like opals and tsavorite garnets. A richness in colour and material selection may be a nod to Japanese tradition, where bamboo represents abundance. 

Bamboo, referred to in traditional Chinese culture as one of the "Four Gentlemen" (bamboo, orchid, plum blossom, and chrysanthemum), plays such an important role that it is even regarded as a behavior model of the gentleman. Notably, brooches (above) can be representative for a gentleman who choses to wear them, enhancing his personality and masculinity.

BIB NECKLACE - Bamboo necklace in white, yellow gold and platinum,set with one oval cabochon-cut black opal of 13.19 carats, one oval-cut tsavorite garnet of 12.91 carats, round tsavorite garnets and brilliant-cut diamonds.

​Bamboo remains literally an enduring plant and cultural value, just as the savoir-faire of the Maison over the centuries. The plant that is able to withstand extreme heat and even the atomic bombings of Hiroshima in 1945 in Japan, is masterfully incorporated to represent the Maison’s everlasting savoir-faire, the use of emblematic articulation technique that gives surprising suppleness to the creations where bamboo stems are stylized as highly flexible diamond bands that 12 Vendôme artisans have adorned with hand-engraved foliage goldwork to create depth as when looking into a majestic bamboo forest, giving a zen-like ease to the design and its wearability.

​Although many bamboo species only flower at intervals as long as 65 or 120 years, may we hope to see this majestic plant reinterpreted soon by Chaumet in its ever-inspiring High Jewellery.
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Other creations in the collection include,
RING
Bamboo ring in white, yellow gold and platinum,
set with one cushion-cut tsavorite garnet of
7.24 carats and brilliant-cut diamonds.

RING
Bamboo ring in white, yellow gold and platinum,
set with one oval-cut tsavorite garnet of 4.10 carats,
one oval cabochon-cut black opal of 1.94 carats
and brilliant-cut diamonds.

RING
Bamboo ring in white, yellow gold and platinum,
set with one oval cabochon-cut black opal of 5.08
carats, round tsavorite garnets and
brilliant-cut diamonds.

BROOCHES
Bamboo brooches in white, yellow gold and
platinum, set with two oval cabochon-cut black
opals of 7.11 and 6.69 carats, 2 brilliant-cut E VVS1
diamonds of 0.39 and 0.38 carat, round tsavorite
garnets and brilliant-cut diamonds.

BROOCH
Bamboo transformable brooch in white, yellow gold
and platinum, set with one cushion-cut tsavorite garnet of 5.42 carats,
​two oval cabochon-cut black opals of 3.10 and 3.07 carats and brilliant-cut diamonds.

EARRINGS
Bamboo earrings in white and yellow gold,
set with brilliant-cut diamonds.

BROOCH
Bamboo brooch in white and yellow gold,
set with brilliant-cut diamonds.

EARRINGS
Bamboo earrings in white, yellow gold and platinum, set with two cushion-cut tsavorite garnets of 2.76
and 2.68 carats and brilliant-cut diamonds.