Continuing our partnership with Regent Seven Seas Cruises®, the world’s leading luxury ocean cruise line, we are delighted to introduce Journey in Jewels, our one-of-a-kind extraordinary egg objet, unveiled at Regent’s gala celebration in Miami, Florida on 10th December 2023. The Pièce de Résistance of a 1600-piece art collection, this bespoke creation is now on display aboard Regent’s newest ship, Seven Seas Grandeur™, and is the first Fabergé egg to permanently reside at sea.
Crafted in southern England from 18k white gold, the outer ‘shell’ of the egg has been enameled in an ombre of blues, representative of the colours of the sea. This ‘shell’ consists of seven intricate blades, carefully chosen to celebrate the seven seas that Regent’s ships traverse. Just like a wave, each blade breaks into a ‘sea foam’ of pearls and white diamonds at the tips in a truly extraordinary aesthetic feat.
The egg sits upon a plinth adorned with emeralds, tsavorites, blue sapphires and white diamonds, set in our ‘Emotion’ pavé style, with colourful gems specially chosen to evoke the colours of the ocean. This gem-set plinth is anchored to a stand which reflects layers of waves accented with pearls and diamonds at the edges; this design element is more geometric and symmetrical in a nod to the helm of Seven Seas Grandeur.
By rotating the pearl 'helm' anti-clockwise, the seven blades delicately open in unison, to reveal a surprise hidden within – another hand-painted egg, which is cradled by a ‘wave’ and delicately rotates, revealing the changing gradient of colours of the sunrises and sunsets at sea, and seasonal elements you can witness aboard Seven Seas Grandeur. This egg has also been decorated with an abundance of sparkling gemstones, including a stunning diamond-set frost pattern which wraps around the egg surprise, inspired by the Fabergé Winter Egg of 1913. Hand-carved mother-of-pearl clouds, alongside white opals set in 18k yellow gold, are also featured – the warmth of the yellow gold evokes the sunshine, and the opals represent the rainbows which emerge through the clash of weather.
In two ground-breaking firsts, we have applied the complex technique of ombre lacquering to the egg, and the new mechanism developed, which allows the egg surprise to rotate, has taken many months to perfect.
"I am honoured to have been chosen as Godmother to this exceptional new ship which, like Fabergé, has been inspired by the past and reimagined for the future. The Fabergé x Regent ‘Journey in Jewels’ Egg is inspired by the colours of the sea; the blues and the greens of the water, that reflect and sparkle in sunlight, and by water in its different forms."
Sarah Fabergé
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