In this cosmic design, two coffee bean-shaped moonstones, totalling over 150 carats, with a perfect, warm lacquer shade, dangle below elegantly hand-sculpted bronze and white gold Moon craters.

Part of the feldspar group of minerals, this mysterious, shimmering stone, which possesses the unique quality of being simultaneously iridescent and milky, is not easy to play around with. But in the right hands, the elements of the Earth reveal their potential for extreme beauty and become the stars – and the moons – for even the most refined of jewelry boxes.

Hemmerle, with their sophisticated and balanced approach, offered an opportunity to these intriguing, but largely forgotten stones to prove themselves.

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