Chopard debuts the Insofu collection with high jewelry that uses stones from a 6,225-carat rough emerald from the Kagem mine ...

a gleaming emerald stone. The pièce de rèsistance, though, is the giant elephant pendant that transforms into a brooch. “It felt natural,” Scheufele says, and not just for etymological reasons.

Chopard has released a new high jewellery collection crafted from one of the largest emeralds ever discovered.

The signature piece in the newest group of jewels is an elephant-shaped pendant made of several emeralds of various shapes and sizes, framed by diamonds that form the elephant’s tusks.

The rough emerald, named Insofu -"elephant" in the local Bemba language - has since yielded 850 carats of gem quality emeralds, the first of which now feature in a 15-piece ensemble of necklaces, ...