Jewellery and watches go hand in hand
Launched last year, the Roger Dubuis jewellery collection is growing fast. At the SIHH fair, the watch brand set aside a room for displaying its most innovative and distinctive pieces.
'Mr [Carlos] Dias said he wanted to create an image for the brand,' said Laurence Steiner, the designer behind the jewellery collection. She said the collection had been created to counterbalance the jewellery watches, allowing the brand to offer customers a complete style choice. As such, the look and feel of the watches had a major influence on the jewellery design, she said.
'I wanted to create something very strong,' Ms Steiner said. 'The design of the watches is very strong so I needed to be strong as well, otherwise it wouldn't match. Because the watches' detailing is very important, I decided I would make the jewellery the same.'
Most jewellery is designed in two dimensions, Ms Steiner said, but her creations always included a three-dimensional element - they had a different effect when viewed from different angles.
The Love Carousel ring is a classic example. A follow up to last year's popular creation, the Heart, the ring's body is covered with invisible-set diamonds, with a bulging ruby-red heart in the centre. The word 'love' repeats around the edge, its skeletal capital letters allowing glimpses into the centre of the ring.
'Normally, when you look at a ring, you look around it. With this ring, you look into it - that's something new for jewellery,' she said.