Hypothesis

Defined by four parallel orbital bands in 18-karat gold, anchored at the base and ascending into cathedral prongs that cradle a 2.6-carat GIA-certified fancy yellow diamond, the architecture of the engagement ring amplifies light dispersion through the stone’s pavilion, creating the illusion of a sparkling seed levitating above its own foundation.

The design draws inspiration from the Primeval Atom Theory, proposed in 1927 by Belgian physicist and priest Georges Henri Lemaître, who suggested that the universe once existed within a single, dense seed that expanded in a fraction of a second — a divine spark of creation or Big Bang, later described by Albert Einstein as “the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation.”

Through this lens, HYPOTHESIS questions the creative essence of luxury. Where does the spark of creation truly reside — in the eye of the vanished master, in the mind of transient creative directors, or in the hands that stitch in silence?

Luxury has long canonized the myth of the creator — the visionary whose imagination, supported by invisible hands, animates the inert.

Yet in the timeless continuum of the industry, when the creator disappears, what endures is legacy embodied in the craft of the petites mains. Their gestures keep the vision alive, their precision fuels empires. Still, their role remains buried beneath the signatures they help immortalize.

Today, conglomerate luxury preserves legacy through a strategic cycle of ephemeral embodiments — new generations of in-house creative directors whose fresh eyes give brands new “skins”, orbiting around the same gravitational myth. They promise renewal, yet their revolution seldom disturbs a system built one stitch at a time by the same, eternally anonymous petites mains — the true custodians of creation, who carry both the burden of heritage and the weight of tradition.

In this friction between tradition and transformation, can the hand be empowered to reinvent from within what it has long been taught to silently reproduce?

HYPOTHESIS proposes a shift in the paradigm, locating the “most beautiful and satisfactory explanation” of reinvention not in style, but in craft. The petites mains hold within their fingertips the dense seed capable of propelling luxury into new, disruptive, ever-expanding horizons.  

Creative directors guide the processes to ensure cohesion. Still, the Big Bang of luxury is born in the anonymity of the ateliers, where intelligent hands challenge the past by reengineering the tectonics of making from the inside out.

Innovation in luxury culminates in style, but its essence lies in the virtuosity of fabrication — in draping with toile, point bâti, thread and needle, in craftsmanship and in the rebellious intelligence of the hand:

A hand unafraid to dismantle its own lineage,
to turn veneration into combustion,
to ignite from the ashes the momentum of a new spark.
An act of eternal luxury reinvention.

This hypothesis closes one chapter and, in the form of an engagement ring, marks an ongoing commitment, a pact between creation, consciousness, and craft.