Maison 40 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Fabergé
The reading
The egg is the most famous object in jewellery that almost nobody will ever own. Gemfields sold the house to SMG Capital for $50m in 2025, cutting the tie to colored-stone supply that owner had given it. Heritage is the entire balance sheet; the modern commercial line has to live up to a room in the Kremlin.
The house
- Origin
- Russia Russian origin; the modern brand is owned and operated outside Russia
- Founded
- 1842
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- SMG Capital (acquired from Gemfields, 2025, $50m) as of 2026-09-23
- Signature
- Egg / Compliqué
- Register note
- Imperial egg mythology This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
No other maison in this register is filed to Russia. It is the 16th-oldest house in the register. SMG Capital owns one house in this register, and this is it. Counted inside its own room it stands 15th of the fifteen houses this register files under Fine Jewelry. Its rank puts it in the second quarter of the hundred. It is one of thirty-six maisons in this register founded before 1900.
Either side of it in the register
Also from Russia
No other maison in this register is filed to Russia.