Sautoir necklace freshwater pearls

A piece of jewelry with a history: at the beginning of the 20th century, women began to wear their pearl jewelry not just tightly around their necks. Long necklaces went better with the flowing cuts of the new dresses, they were worn at the length of the navel and fell wide. None other than Coco Chanel popularized the sautoir necklace in the 1920s - classically worn with the "little black dress" as a generously falling necklace, triple-looped and tight-fitting or hanging down the back over a wide neckline. For this necklace, which is more than a meter long, around 200 freshwater cultured pearls are strung together. The sautoir necklace comes from Pforzheim.

In 1921 Kokichi Mikimoto developed a modern cultivation process for saltwater pearls and acquired important experience for the cultivation of the Akoya pearl. This new technique was of benefit for Japan and the north-west Pacific region, and in Oceania harvesting cultured pearls replaced the dangerous pearl diving. We chose from the large variety of pearls pearl jewelry that is typical for the different types of pearls and shows the almost perfect rounding of the Akoya pearls, the bright, snow-white luster of the comparatively small freshwater pearls, and the grandeur of the Tahiti cultured pearl.