Chopard celebrates 150 years of excellence in fine jewelry with a 150-piece collection of unprecedented proportions.

Famed Swiss jeweler and watchmaker, Chopard, celebrates 150 years of imagination, luxury and wonder with Animal Planet: a 150-piece fairytale haute joaillerie collection of baubles inspired by the animal kingdom, from the everyday to the rare and mythical.

Chopard Co-President and Artistic Director Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele devised the collection, settling on the theme of animals to honor her love and appreciation for them. the collection melds the best of new technology at Chopard with techniques that have been central to the core of its jewelry-making process since the beginning. In addition to the usual parade of gorgeous rubies, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, Chopard’s Animal Planet collection welcomes quartz, kunzites, pearls, Paraíba tourmalines, moonstones, red gold, titanium and precious woods to enhance and authenticate the natural experience of an animal and its habitat.

Gruosi-Scheufele poured over various specialized encyclopedias and a Chinese calendar and mythical materials to cull her collection of both worldly and other-worldly beasts. From the usual bee and frog to the hippopotamus, stork and majestic dragon, Chopard’s anniversary collection literally leaves no stone unturned. each piece is crafted from ?awless gems, metals and woods, such as an 11.43-carat, pear-cut brown diamond imagined as a turtle. Its shell is pavéd and set with 370 brilliant champagne, cognac and deep chestnut brown diamonds to resemble the turtle’s delicate scales.

Other pieces, such as the Clownfish plastron necklace, boast more than 2,160 stones of all hues from diamonds, apatites, aquamarines and sapphires to Paraíba tourmalines, quartz, moonstones and chalcedonies. It took more than 750 hours of Chopard genius and craftsmanship to create the necklace, which depicts four clownfish suspended in the ?uid splendor of the ocean. Another ocean creature, the sea horse, claims its stake in the spectacular collection by way of a pair of earrings. the pair’s onyx eyes radiate outwards to a body smothered in brilliant-cut diamonds lending the sea horse its elusive and magical quality. Perhaps most wondrous of all, however, is the cloud of 108 effervescent rose-cut diamonds resembling bubbles that cushion the bottom of each sea horse as it makes its journey through the sea of air above the neck.

A pair of storks in midair makes a perfect present to an expectant mother or for a birthday,  Mother’s Day or no holiday in particular. Chopard’s Stork earrings are adorned with a multitude of black-and-white diamonds set in white gold. the surprise, of course, is in the packaging: A little blue bundle of topaz represents a sleeping baby boy, while you’ll ?nd a little girl nestled among a subtle drop of pink kunzite.For the admirer of rare, quality gems the world over, it doesn’t get any better than Chopard. Celebrate a very happy birthday by delighting in a ?t of her fancy—Chopard’s Animal Kingdom simply dazzles.

Chopard, 212.223.2304, www.chopard.com