Start your year right with these chic and office-appropriate creations from Boucheron and Cartier

In the realm of million-dollar high jewellery collections, elaborate transformable necklaces can be disassembled into bracelets, brooches, and pendants to be worn separately. Fortunately for those on a more modest budget, a new trend is brewing: multi-wear fine jewels.

Chic and versatile, these accessible baubles boast several styling options, giving your bling wardrobe more bang for your buck. Paring them down for the boardroom or piling them on for the bar is a breeze. 

Not surprisingly, the most innovative jewellery houses, Boucheron and Cartier, are pushing this latest evolution.

This exceptional creation, launched as part of Quatre Design’s 20th anniversary last year, is designed as a flexible ribbon by the French maison’s creative director Claire Choisne. 

Made of seven segments that can be detached and reattached, the set boasts the same number of wearable combinations. Apart from a head-turning belt, two lengths of necklaces, three bracelets, and even a hairband may be derived from it.

Comprising over a hundred parts that required hand-assembly by Boucheron’s jewellers, the set features fine articulations that allow one part to be linked to another. An ingenious fastening system also makes it easy to change styles.

Playful yet practical, it is crafted with yellow, rose, white gold, brown PVD, and diamonds. Beyond its style quotient and chameleon quality, the piece embodies what the house icon of Quatre represents — transcending boundaries and challenging conventions. 

Instantly recognisable and universally adored, Cartier’s unisex Love bracelet is the epitome of clean lines, precise proportions, and chic versatility. Its two elliptical arcs and those emblematic visible screws that hold them are, together, considered by many as the ultimate modern symbol of union and couplehood.

Some 55 years after it was introduced in New York City in 1969 by house designer Aldo Cipullo, a new expression is born — in the form of multi-wear drop earrings that are as contemporary and ingenious as the bracelet.

Six references in rose, white, or yellow gold, including half-diamond-paved versions, allow individuals to wear a single earring or up to three, symmetrical or asymmetrical. 

A single-cuff earring, in yellow gold with two parts joined by a chain, is also made to be donned on both the scapha and ear lobe. The way we see it, this creation could also be worn as a freely dangling accessory — on one or both sides if you wish.

This article was originally published in The Peak.