Maison 35 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Boucheron
The reading
The first jeweller to settle on Place Vendôme. Quatre is the commercial engine (four bands, four finishes). High jewellery still does animals and architecture. Kering’s jewellery pillar alongside Pomellato and DoDo.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1858
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- Kering
- Signature
- Quatre / Serpent Bohème
The figure, and where it comes from
The first jeweller on the Place Vendôme, by the house’s own account.
Source: Boucheron (house account), House history.
This claim was re-checked against the publisher named above on 2026-09-23, and it is held in this build’s claims ledger as boucheron-vendome.
The register, counted around it
The register's France cohort runs to twenty-six — the largest national group here — and it is one. It is the 24th-oldest house in the register. Within the register it is the 10th of the fifteen houses filed under Fine Jewelry. Its stablemates here are Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga — five Kering houses in all.