Maison 37 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Mikimoto
The reading
Kokichi Mikimoto invented the modern pearl industry and the house still owns the category. Japanese nacre, strict luster grading, a strand that is a rite of passage from Tokyo to New York. Luxury that is quiet because the surface already does the work.
The house
- Origin
- Japan
- Founded
- 1893
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- Independent
- Signature
- Akoya strand
- Register note
- Cultured pearl category owner This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
This is one of the four maisons the register files to Japan — the same number it files to Germany, and the sixth-largest national group in it. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 36th of a hundred. Counted inside its own room it stands 12th of the fifteen houses this register files under Fine Jewelry. Its ownership is filed here as independent: one of the thirteen houses in this register filed as independent, with Hermès, Burberry, The Row, Brunello Cucinelli, Graff, and seven more.