1. Vacheron Constantin
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... Besides being a young businessman, Vacheron was also a talented craftsman. In 1770 his company created the first complication, and nine years later he designed the first engine-turned dials. The son ...

2. Ulysse Nardin
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... relaunched the brand, with other important investors. Now the company is all on Swiss and Hong kong company. Schnyder and Oechslin , and the staff of Ulysse Nardin, designed and created complicated timepieces ...

3. Rolex
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... were instrumental in design and implementation of the technology during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1968, Rolex collaborated with a consortium of 16 Swiss watch manufacturers to develop the Beta ...

4. Jaeger LeCoultre
(Manufacturers/Luxury Timepieces)

... & LeCoultre In 1903, the Parisian Edmond Jaeger challenged the Swiss to manufacture ultra-thin calibers of his own design. Jacques-David LeCoultre, grandson of Antoine undertook the challenge. A ...

5. Diamonds
(Gemstones/Diamonds)

... Diamond enhancements are specific treatments, performed on natural diamonds (usually those already cut and polished into a gem), which are designed to better the gemological characteristics of the stone ...

6. Harry Winston
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... the largest parcel of rough diamonds purchased from De Beers up to that date. Winston's jewelry is known for its simplicity, beauty, and high-quality fabrication. The designs tend to feature fancy shaped ...

7. David Webb
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... he vaulted into fame when Vogue Magazine lauded his brightly enamelled, animal-motif jewelry in one of their spreads. The pieces, as he readily acknowledged, were inspired by the bejeweled animals designed ...

8. Pierre Vever
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

Eminent French jewelry house famous for its Art Nouveau designs. The firm’s history dates to 1821 when founder Pierre Vever (1795-1853) opened a jewelry shop in Metz, France. Business flourished and ...

9. Verdura
(Manufacturers/Italian Jewelers)

Sicilian jeweller designer famous for his work in the 1940’s and 50’s. Fulco Santostefano, Duke of Verdura, was born in Palermo in 1898. He spent most of his youth in Sicily and later Venice. Verdura’s ...

10. Van Cleef & Arpels
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

... thrived. Alfred had a keen eye for design. Charles was charming, an impeccable salesman. Julien’s business acumen was impressive, and he procured the finest diamonds and colored stones for VCA. In 1906, ...

11. Trabert, Hoeffer-Mauboussin
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... jewels were fabricated from eighteen-karat yellow gold parts and featured semi-precious gemstones. The firm encouraged women to choose among the different design elements and gemstones to create unique ...

12. Edward C. Moore
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Edward C. Moore was the jewelry design director and head of the silver workshops at Tiffany and Company from 1851 to 1891. Under Moore’s direction, the artists at Tiffany studied jewelry and objects from ...

13. G. Paulding Farnham
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Arguably Tiffany and Company's most eminent nineteenth-century jewelry designer. In 1885, at the tender age of 26, G. Paulding Farnham joined Tiffany’s design department. Studying under Edward Moore ...

14. George Frederick Kunz
(Gemstones/Important Gemologists)

...  Indeed, as time would tell, women could not resist. Following Tiffany’s lead, other American and European jewelers incorporated a more diverse range of colored stones into their design repertoire. Demand ...

15. Tiffany and Company
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... tourmalines from New England, Russian demantoid garnets. The famed Tiffany’s designers Edward Moore and Paulding Farnham turned to historical sources for design inspiration as well as to so-called exotic ...

16. Pierre Sterlé
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

Sterle was a French jeweler famous for his 1940’s and 1950’s designs. In 1934, Pierre Sterlé opened a workshop on Rue St-Anne. Some of Paris’s finest jewellers patronized him, including Boucheron, Chaumet, ...

17. Shreve, Crump and Low
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... Crump, and Low is not known for producing particularly innovative designs, it has consistently provided its clients with fashionable, high quality jewelry and silver. It has also been awarded prestigious ...

18. Shreve and Company
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... established itself as one of the foremost producers of fine silver in America, specializing in Arts and Crafts designs. Shreve's pieces were handsomely finished, often featuring hand hammering and cut-out ...

19. Seaman Shepps
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... latest French fashions, including the work of Verdura at Chanel, Belperron at Bovin, and Toussaint at Cartier, Schepps began designing his own jewelry rather than retailing the work of others. Business ...

20. John Rubel Co.
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... Parisian manufacturing jewelers. In 1939, Rubel moved to New York to help produce jewelry for Van Cleef ‘s recently opened shop in the city. Both firms shared designerMaurice Duvalet, a Frenchman who ...