Jean SCHLUMBERGER

18-carat yellow gold mechanical pencil, bone shaft with applied turquoise pearl decoration. Signed Schlumberger. Gross weight: 19 g - Length: 11 cm (Cracks and minor knocks). Jean Schlumberger was a French jeweler born in 1907, who began his career in the 1930s designing buttons for Elsa Schiaparelli, who later asked him to design costume jewelry. After the Second World War, he moved to New York and designed clothes for Chez Ninon. In 1946, he opened a jewelry boutique. In 1956, he began collaborating with Tiffany & Co. thanks to its president Walter Horving, who asked him to design for them. He had his own workshop there until the late 1970s. Remarkable for his whimsical interpretations and natural forms, Jean Schlumberger "appreciates the miracle of jewelry. For him, they are the means to realize his dreams". His most famous piece is called "Bord on the Rock", in which he incorporates the impressive 128.5-carat yellow diamond. He died in 1987.