The coloured gemstone trio of emeralds, rubies and sapphires remains a force to be reckoned with in the jewellery and gemstone industry. Today’s most prolific jewellers continue to place these beloved gems at the centre of innovative and modern collections. 

Emeralds take centre stage in Gübelin Jewellery’s Dancing Dunes necklace, which features a 4.11-carat Brazilian emerald at the centre alongside 75 Brazilian emeralds totalling 21.18 carats and brilliant-cut diamonds weighing a combined 6.98 carats.

According to the company, the design was inspired by the inner beauty of emeralds – hidden, internal structures that are reminiscent of dunescapes in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. Home to the country’s only desert, the park offers a mesmerising view of greenish-blue water surfaces against the sand dune formations. 

Rubies, on the other hand, are the stars of a jewellery suite earlier gifted to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for her 80th birthday by the government of Greenland, Naalakkersuisut, on behalf of the Greenlandic people.

Adorned with Greenlandic rubies and designed by world-renowned Danish jewellery house, Hartmann’s, this set includes a brooch with matching earrings. The design took inspiration from the embroidery found on the Greenlandic national costume, embodied by 32 cabochon rubies. Rose-cut and round diamonds that flank the gems represent the pristine, icy landscape of the island.

Bulgari’s iconic Serpenti jewellery line meanwhile highlights the captivating allure of sapphires. The Serpenti Misteriosi Romani High Jewellery secret watch – inspired by Rome at the height of its grandeur – is one of the most expensive high-end timepieces ever made by the luxury jeweller.

The snake’s head is crowned with a 10-carat Sri Lankan sapphire combined with more than 60 carats of diamonds and 35 carats of sapphires, which form the serpent’s body and scales. The cuff bracelet features a snake sinuously coiled around it. To reinforce the theme, the cuff is embellished with baguette-cut diamond scales, so that the wrist inhabits the design and becomes part of the snake itself.