Editor’s Picks: The 10 most amazing jewellery collections of 2025

When it comes to creativity and imagination in luxury jewellery-making in 2025, where do we begin? It has been a year brimming with so many fantastic releases to delight anyone — from those who prefer restraint and functionality, to collectors who are larger than life.

Needless to say, it has been difficult to choose our favourites. Heritage maisons like Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier have been steadfast in asserting their alpha status. Chopard continues to blind us with its signature brand of joyful, responsible creations. Bvlgari put its emblematic Serpenti front and centre this Year of the Snake. 

Not just the custodian of Parisian chic, Hermes elevates it. Reaching deep into its history is Tiffany & Co., which brings back hit after Schlumberger hit. And speaking of heritage designs, Boucheron makes us fall in love with its archival insects — creatures we’ve never thought we’d love. And here, my friends, are the baubles that made our hearts sing.

Van Cleef & Arpels Treasure Island 

Van Cleef & Arpels has long been the master of transporting us into imaginary worlds, but the Treasure Island high jewellery collection feels like one of its most ambitious voyages yet. Inspired by pirate lore, ancient myths, and mysteries of the sea, it renders Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel into sheer marvels.

Each one is a miniature epic: Blue sapphire and diamond creations channel swirling deep waters and sailor’s knots; emeralds evoke lush palm fronds; brooches hide fascinating secrets; necklaces transform with ease; maritime motifs glimmer with an otherworldly quality; and all manner of beloved creatures come alive in an explosion of colours.

This spellbinding collection showcases the maison’s technical finesse, from raised volumes to invisible Mystery Set articulations, executed with extraordinary delicacy. More than a suite of jewels, Treasure Island is wearable mythmaking — and a proper investment for serious collectors. Read more about it here.

Chopard Insofu Emerald

As if Chopard’s Caroline Scheufele isn’t already an inspiring character as a leader in the jewellery industry, she earned our deepest respect for rolling up her sleeves to bring a rough stone to life. In this case, it’s a 6,225-carat Zambian emerald rough, named “Insofu” after the local Bemba word for elephant.

Scheufele, along with the maison’s artisans and a team of top Indian gem-cutters, have studied the stone for years to understand its fissures and inclusions, and to assess its potential destiny. And fulfil it they did. Some have already been transformed into magnificent high jewels, and we cannot wait for more to come. Read more about it here.

Cartier Libre Polymorph

Every so often, Cartier reminds us that unbridled experimentation is the greatest luxury in the jewellery sphere. We saw that intrepid spirit in last year’s Cartier Libre Polymorph, which we adore, and this year, the maison does the same for the En Equilibre high jewellery collection.

This time, it is a study of harmony, precision, and the tension between opposing forces. Imagine lines held in suspension, curves balanced against geometry, and volumes that seem to float in open space. For instance, the Haliade necklace, centred on a 41.85-carat Madagascar sapphire, creates movement through waves of diamonds and calibre-cut sapphires held together on an openworked construction with articulated links.

Honouring Art Deco’s defining symmetry and radiance is the Vetrata necklace, which features an 8.15-carat diamond surrounded by 20 shield-like stones arranged in an entrancing rhythm. And the Tateya ring wraps around a 6.98-carat ruby in a fluid yet sculptural obi-inspired ribbon of diamonds. There is an intellectual appeal to this, and we like to think that high jewellery is more than just bling and glamour.

Bvlgari Tubogas 

The Bvlgari Tubogas has always been one of those designs that needs no introduction — a gaspipe-inspired coil of gold so smooth, flexible, and seamless it feels almost alive, and of course, totally irresistible. This Year of the Snake, the maison has pushed the iconic sinuous construction into unapologetically expansive territory with a multiverse of jewellery and watch releases. 

The expressions are as creative as it gets. The more accessible editions interpret the coil as anything from a streamlined pendant bracelet to chunky rings and earrings evoking the elegance of early designs. The aesthetic eclecticism of the 70s is channelled into four timepieces, while the new miniature mechanical movement BVS100 watch debuts in the Lady Solotempo watch.

And it gets absolutely traffic-stopping moving into high jewellery and watchmaking, with colourful, gem-encrusted cuff watches, necklaces, and bracelets. What’s wonderful is how modern and relevant they feel without losing any of Bvlgari’s well-hewn Roman swagger. Read more about it here.

Boucheron Nature Untamed

With Nature Untamed, Boucheron dives into the microscopic beauty of insects, transforming dragonflies, beetles, butterflies, and the oft-ignored common housefly and moth into high jewellery creatures of mesmerising realism. Titanium becomes iridescent wings; diamonds articulate exoskeletons; coloured stones shimmer like living carapaces. 

Under Claire Choisne’s direction, the maison once again embraces innovation and its very peculiar eye — using volume, texture, and unexpected materials to express fragility, transformation, and the poetry of the natural world. A masterstroke among its many other masterstrokes in modern jewellery-making. And we like that Boucheron is its own person, taking cues from no one. Read more about it here.

Van Cleef & Arpels Perlee

When one sees gold beads and refinement, it’s bound to be the Perlee. Its feminine, light-hearted whimsicality continues with luminous new yellow gold jewels enriched by turquoise and diamonds, while the watches are rose and yellow gold secret agents of time disguised as bangles accented with rose quartz, green jasper, blue quartz, and chrysoprase.

Each bead on these beauties is polished to perfection by the maison’s own high jewellery artisans, so you can take heart that what you’re wearing is of blue-blooded Parisian pedigree. It does feel really nice to say that you’re (gasp), a Van Cleef & Arpels collector, doesn’t it? Read more about it here. Read more about it here.

Hermes Maillon Libre 

Hermes has a knack for turning something as simple as a link into a miniature work of architecture, and the Maillon Libre collection is a perfect example of that magic. The designs play with volume, shape, and tension, taking the classic chain link and transforming it into bold, fluid forms that feel more like sculpture than jewellery. 

This year’s Maillon Libre Brooch Watch takes that idea even further. The design lifts a single link out of the chain and frees it entirely into a charismatic object that hides a discreet time display within its contours. As a brooch, it’s a statement of form; as a time-telling necklace, it’s a delicious secret tucked into a pouch, meant only for the wearer. 

It’s the kind of artistry Hermes excels at: inventive without ostentation, beautifully crafted, and full of the maison’s signature wit and restraint. Read more about it here.

Chopard L’Heure du Diamant 

As prominent as the 60s modernism-inspired L’Heure du Diamant collection has been in Chopard’s pantheon of icons, this jewellery watch collection has never shone brighter than this year — with several outstanding introductions. 

Stealing the limelight is a moonphase complication featuring the new Calibre 09.02-C, offering astronomical precision requiring adjustment only once every 122 years, set beneath a star-strewn aventurine dial and surrounded by crown-set diamonds. Then there are the marquise-shaped watches with size-gradated diamonds enhancing its form. 

The Precious Hour models showcase a kaleidoscope of richly coloured stone dials from tiger’s eye and turquoise to black, white, and pink opals. Their diamond halos aside, these artisanal creations also come with the maison’s iconic bark-texture bracelets in ethical gold. What we like best is the collection embodies Chopard’s dual identity in jewellery and watchmaking so breathtakingly well. Read more about it here.

Cartier Love Unlimited

Who doesn’t know or want a Cartier Love bracelet? Anchored by the radical simplicity of an oval form of two rigid gold arcs punctuated by visible screws, this iconic aesthetic has gone on to adorn the full range of fine jewels, including multi-wear versions.

But Cartier is anything but predictable. Love, Aldo Cipullo’s 1969 design, has been given a new dimension with Love Unlimited — a fluid, fully flexible version that wraps around the wrist like a soft gold ribbon. Made from around 200 miniaturised components with gadrooned links and hand-polished screws, it moves with a suppleness the original does not possess.

A patent-pending invisible clasp allows two bracelets to attach and form a pair — or even an infinite chain — offering a wondrous modern gesture of enduring love. The collection, which offers pieces in all three gold colours, also includes a matching ring that echoes the bracelet’s flowing architecture on a smaller scale. Read more about it here.

Tiffany & Co. Blue Book 2025

Last but nowhere the least is Tiffany & Co., which unveils its annual Blue Book collection in several seasonal series. This year’s theme is Sea of Wonder that reimagines a plethora of spectacular Jean Schlumberger classics from the archives. 

Spring unleashed sea urchins and starfish, Summer brought on an onslaught of seahorses and ocean flora. The latest Fall creations highlight shells, anemone, and even a mermaid. We don’t want to get into the technicality of the pieces, for the designs and craftsmanship speak for themselves. 

We just want to say that the world is a much more beautiful place thanks to the meeting of minds between Tiffany & Co. and the outrageously talented Schlumberger in the 50s. And jewellery enthusiasts cannot be more grateful that the American house has endeavoured to keep the designer’s memory and legacy alive today. Read more about it here.