FRED & SOLEIL D'OR - A Story of Destiny

Some people’s destinies are sprinkled with stars, but it was diamonds & multi-colored stones that studded Fred Samuel’s destiny. In 1977, his lucky star guided him towards an extraordinary encounter with one of the most incredible yellow diamonds in the world: SOLEIL D’OR. A rare anonymous diamond of 105,54 carats, which seemed to capture all of the sun’s radiance. A luminous treasure revealing a truly fascinating journey. Captivated, the Jeweler acquires this treasure of nature and thus opens the doors of a very private club: that of the great jewelers who possess stones over one hundred carats. "For a jeweler to hold in his hands a 100 carats stone remains a unique experience which very few of us in the world have gone through” - Fred Samuel, “Memoirs of a Jeweler”, 1992. Since then, colored diamonds have always been a part of FRED’s story. Now back as the centerpiece of the Maison’s heritage, SOLEIL D’OR will shine during the first FRED retrospective exhibition to be discovered in the fall of 2022 in Paris. #FREDParis #FREDJewelry #FREDSoleilDOr #FREDHeritage Credits: INA / Star Story / 08.11.1977 Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images Photo via Agence France Presse