On Memorial Day, Louis Vuitton unveiled its new Virtuosity high jewelry collection in a Gothic-style castle on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Of the 110 one-of-a-kind jewels in the dramatic range, one sun-drenched piece stood out.
A model wears the Eternal Sun necklace at the Louis Vuitton Virtuosity high jewelry show.
Called the Eternal Sun necklace, the spiraling gold collar blends a string of 27 round yellow diamonds totaling 46.13 cts., sourced over the course of seven years (!), with the house’s signature rope motif. But that’s not all. A single round 14 ct. yellow diamond hanging from a 3.88 ct. LV Monogram Star-cut diamond completes the piece.
The Eternal Sun necklace features a string of yellow diamonds joined with a gold collar fashioned in a rope-like motif. (photo: Laziz Hamani)
The necklace sits at the intersection where high craft meets boundless creativity—or so notes WWD’s Lily Templeton in her review of the Virtuosity collection, in which she singled out the necklace as the line’s “grand finale.”
Close-up of the 14 ct. yellow diamond that hangs from Louis Vuitton’s Eternal Sun necklace (photo: Laziz Hamani)
“The studio imagined a spiraling structure meant to multiply the effect of already glittering stones,” Templeton writes, noting that the 27 vivid diamonds in the collar came from the Zimmi mines in Sierra Leone.
While the stones themselves “will be the subject of a monograph at the Gemological Institute of America, what shone brightest was the spiraling outline that stretched the metal until it became invisible under a line of apparently free-floating brilliant-cut stones,” she adds.
Talk about a ray of sunshine!
A mounting set against the backdrop of a sketch of the Eternal Sun necklace (photo: Laziz Hamani)
Top: Eternal Sun necklace in yellow gold and platinum with 50.13 cts. t.w. yellow diamonds, Louis Vuitton (photo: Laziz Hamani)