Nymphéa Levant high jewelry necklace featuring a vivid pink sapphire and conch pearls

2025 High Jewelry · Nymphéa Levant

The Art of
Encounter

A rare stone, a remembered gesture, and the person it has been waiting to meet.

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Serendipity Jewelry · Paris

A fortunate encounter becomes an enduring form.

At Serendipity, every jewel begins with attention: to the singular life of a gemstone, to the hand that gives it form, and to the person who will make it their own.

Close view of the Nymphéa Levant necklace and its pink sapphire centerpiece
01 / THE STONE

The Stone

Nymphéa
Levant

A lotus sapphire carrying the color of first light.

22.61 ctPadparadscha sapphire
UniqueHigh jewelry piece
By appointment16 Place Vendôme

Inspired by Monet’s water lilies, the jewel brings an Eastern vision of the lotus into dialogue with French Impressionism. Natural conch pearls unfold beside a stone of exceptional sunrise color.

The Gesture

From memory
to movement.

The design is not placed on the stone; it grows around it. A line is drawn, tested by the hand, translated into structure, then refined until movement and balance feel inevitable.

Design study and mock-up for the Nymphéa necklace
Sketch × FormDesign study
Nymphéa necklace in progress at the jewelry workbench
Gesture × EvidenceHand assembled in over 3,000 hours
Model wearing an emerald Serendipity high jewelry parure

The Encounter

A jewel comes alive in relation.

“Jewelry offers a fleeting glimpse of eternity — beauty, craftsmanship and sentiment held within one enduring object.”

We design for the way a piece moves with the body, enters a life, and becomes inseparable from a memory. The final encounter is never between a client and a product. It is between a person and a piece that feels unmistakably theirs.

Paris × East

Two perspectives,
one Maison.

At 16 Place Vendôme, French haute joaillerie precision meets an Eastern sensitivity to nature, time and transformation.

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16 Place Vendôme · Paris
Founder and gemologist Christine Chen examining a gemstone
Christine Chen · Founder & Gemologist

“Each stone carries a unique emotion and soul, waiting patiently across time for its destined encounter.”

Founded in 2017 by certified gemologist Christine Chen, Serendipity approaches jewelry from the stone outward. Gemological judgment, cultural memory and the intimacy of private consultation shape every creation.

Jeweler assembling an opal and sapphire piece by hand
Created
for One

Created for One

A private creation begins with listening.

A gemstone, a memory, an occasion — the first conversation defines what the jewel must hold.

01
ListenThe story, the person, the intention.
02
DiscoverThe stone whose character answers the brief.
03
CreateSketch, proportion, craft and private fittings.
04
EncounterA personal presentation at Place Vendôme.

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