Yellow Diamond Necklace

Being offered from the exceptional private collection of Pharrell, there is no piece in this sale more significant than this necklace. Conceived at the height of Pharrell and Jacob’s creative partnership, the commission represents an unprecedented leap into the realm of true high jewelry: a work of regal ambition, extraordinary craftsmanship, and uncompromising rarity.

The inspiration began with a reference image Pharrell sent to Jacob — a historic diamond necklace worn by the Queen of England. He wanted something bold, noble, and radiant, but interpreted through his own sensibility: a piece that spoke to lineage and legacy, yet expressed his lifelong connection to the color yellow. As Pharrell explained, “Yellow is my favorite color… it makes you happy. It’s the color of the sun, the greatest vitamin D source there is. It means adrenaline, it means pay attention.” That meaning became the emotional foundation of the jewel.

To realize the vision, Jacob drew upon the language of Edwardian high jewelry, an era defined by delicacy, lightness, refinement, and settings “made for royalty.” As Jacob describes it, “It’s this very old Edwardian style setting. So it’s made for royalty. So whoever is going to have this definitely has regal taste.”

Then came the nearly impossible task: assembling 112.70 carats of Fancy Vivid yellow diamonds, each stone perfectly matched in intensity and quality. Unlike traditional high jewelry suites, Pharrell wanted stones of different shapes — squares, emeralds, Asschers, hearts — each with its own personality, each selected for fire and saturation, each required to meet the same exceptional standard. Jacob recalls: “This is the most difficult piece of jewelry I ever did for him. All diamonds had to be vivid yellow, perfectly matched. And that’s exactly what we did here… to make twenty-something stones all match like that.”

Fancy Vivid yellow diamonds of this size and purity are themselves extraordinary, but to find an entire suite that harmonizes as a single composition is nearly unheard of. The result is a necklace that glows with a uniform, almost celestial radiance: each diamond luminous, each facet releasing the sun-bright energy Pharrell associates with meaning, vitality, and joy.

The necklace is both architectural and fluid, regal yet modern, an object that transcends fashion, category, and era. It marks Pharrell’s evolution into the realm of the world’s finest private jewelry collectors and stands as the apex of what he and Jacob can create together when imagination meets absolute technical mastery.

Monumental, radiant, and unlike anything else, this necklace is the crown jewel of the collection, a work of exceptional provenance and unmatched craftsmanship, and a once-in-a-generation example of contemporary high jewelry at its most ambitious.