Tiffany & Co.’s Bird Comes Back To Roost on Natural Pearl Perches

Tiffany & Co. is doubling down on its Bird icon. During LVMH watch week, the company’s CEO Anthony Ledru told Robb Report its Jean Schlumberger-designed avian mascot would remain a focus for the house going forward, and that vision continues to take flight in the latest capsule collection. The first time the famous bird landed on a pearl was in 2023 when creative director imagined Tiffany’s diamond-accented animal atop a new perch. What makes the capsule collections so special is that they are made from extremely rare natural saltwater pearls.

Due to the increasing pollution in the world’s oceans, are becoming extremely elusive—even still, , the majority of natural saltwater pearls were harvested 100 years ago. The pearls are sourced for Tiffany by Hussein Al Fardan—a renowned expert on natural saltwater pearls—from the Gulf region. Al Fardan has the largest private collection of natural saltwater pearls from this part of the world. The pearls are so rare that constructing a single necklace from this kind (known of their size, shape, and luster), can take up to 20 years of sourcing. This is the third year in a row the collector has exclusively opened up his vault for Tiffany & Co.

The pearls are not reserved only for the birds. The collection also include acorn and leaf motifs, such as in a pair of drop earrings or a toi et moi ring featuring pearls in different hues. One particularly spectacular ring has a sizeable gray drop natural pearl of over 12 carats nestled among a platinum and 18-karat yellow gold setting of diamond-accented leaves like an egg in a bird’s nest.

Given the rarity of natural pearls combined with the provenance of Tiffany & Co. along with Al Fardan’s sourcing, these are bonafide collector’s pieces worth generational nesting for the serious jewelry connoisseur.