The French jewellery house has a special something embedded in its Quatre 5D Memory – a recollection of a childhood by the ocean, in the form of audio data In the year that Boucheron celebrates the 20th anniversary of its iconic Quatre ring, it conjures a statement edition, embedded with cutting-edge technology and designed to be treasured for centuries to come. The Quatre 5D Memory ring is a timeless (literally) capsule creation that reflects with extraordinary brilliance the French luxury jeweller’s dual influences – historical authority melded with audacious innovation. Through an audio artwork cocooned within the mesmerising light of its ultra-modern material, the jewel captures a precious past memory of the ocean – one that will endure for future generations who hold the key to its secret.
The memory and the ingenuity for this visionary feat are supplied by Boucheron creative director Claire Choisne, whose childhood was spent within sight and sound of the Atlantic Ocean. She chose to inscribe the irresistible surge of the ocean waves, which have long inspired her, within this remarkable new Quatre ring. In a high jewellery first, the maison has harnessed the power of 5D memory, an optical storage process for digital data, into the very fabric of its designs.
An ultra-fast nanostructuring technique invented by Peter Kazansky enables the encoding of huge quantities of information – in this case, sound in binary form – in nanostructured glass using a femtosecond.