Tournaire Teams Up With Focal To Create Jewelled Headphones:
We don’t have long to wait until Christmas and New Year, so I can already start talking (and you dreaming!) about precious gifts. No doubt audiophiles will be delighted to discover that the French jewellery brand Tournaire and the acoustic loudspeakers company Focal have collaborated on something special this year – Utopia headphones, embellished with yellow gold and diamonds.
High-End-class model of Focal Utopia was first released this summer. However, its precious new version has gone on sale just recently, being released in the limited edition of eight pieces. Representative of Focal say that they started developing Utopia by Tournaire headphones even before the release of the standard model and the creation of this design took over a year to complete.
Take a look at the finish of these headphones and you will see how skilfully the jewellery brand intertwined its codes – a square, triangle and circle – in the design. These geometric figures have a special meaning – they symbolise the three stages of life: the past (square), the present (triangle) and the future (the circle). The decoration of the precious headphones is made by hand from start to finish by Tournaire craftsmen. These headphones are crafted in 18k yellow gold and adorned with six carats of diamonds.
Incidentally, if you have started dreaming about such a gift, you should expect the gift-giver to pay €100,000. And if you want a branded headphones stand, get ready to spend another €10,000.
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Katerina Perez With more than 12 years’ experience in the jewellery sector, Katerina Perez’s expert knowledge spans everything from retail sales and management to content creation, including brand building, jewellery writing and styling. Born and raised in St Petersburg, Katerina’s favourite hobby as a child was playing with the treasures in her grandmother's jewellery box, inspiring a lifelong love of jewellery from a very early age. She spent five years in St Petersburg University of Culture and Arts studying not journalism but business studies and languages, and her writing skills have developed as her passion for her favourite subject – jewellery – has grown. This is why her writing comes straight from the heart rather than the pages of a book. Daughter of an entrepreneur mother, Katerina exchanged her retail management job for jewellery writing in 2013 and hasn’t looked back since.
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