Credited with singlehandedly resurrecting the market for black diamonds in the mid-1990s, de Grisogono is a contemporary Genevan jewelry house with old world standards. Popular with an international crowd, de Grisogono’s designs are beholden to no particular stylistic tradition, which might explain why the jeweler has as many boutiques in Russia and the Middle East as it does in its native Switzerland. Recognized for undulating, wave-like formations – imagine if Brancusi made rings covered in pave diamonds – de Grisogono has accomplished the task of cracking into the highest echelons of the jewelry establishment in less than two decades.

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