The Paraïba Sautoir

A suite of Paraïba tourmalines: earrings, necklace and ring.

Paraïba tourmalines are among the rarest coloured stones in trade. Their neon blue-green, caused by copper not iron, is unmatched by any other gem family. ICA Premium Report and IGI certified.

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The Paraïba tourmaline was unknown to the trade before 1987. Within a decade of its discovery, the original Brazilian deposits were effectively exhausted. What remained entered the market slowly, over years, through a small number of hands.

This suite carries an ICA Premium Report (2019), a designation issued to fewer than 3% of stones evaluated, and an IGI certificate from 2011. Two independent laboratories, eight years apart, confirm the same exceptional quality.

The house acquired these stones as a lot from a single estate in São Paulo, in 2018. They had not been mounted. We have mounted them once.

A note from the house

“The colour saturation in this set is at the upper end of what Paraïba tourmalines are capable of producing. These are stones that define the category.”

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03 · From the Workshop

Built around the stone, never the other way.

The neon saturation of Paraïba tourmaline demanded a setting in white metal, platinum and 18-karat white gold, to avoid warm-tone interference. The collets were polished to mirror finish to amplify each stone’s luminosity.