Ice Cube

[serene background music]

(On-screen text: Chopard presents)

(Coralie walks to her desk in the workshop with tools and materials. The desk is covered with prints, drawings, and texts, with a large desk lamp. Windows along the side of the room open onto bare trees and a gray wintry sky. The workshop seems cozy. Coralie sits at her desk and begins to draw.)

[Coralie] Our hands are an extension of our ideas. They run freely over the paper following what's inside our mind.

[piano music]

(On-screen text: ART, from the Latin ARS, ARTIS. Talent, skill, dexterity.)

(On-screen text: The word ART becomes ARTISAN.)

(A black and white graphite sketch of the palm of a hand, surrounded by the words EXPERTISE, CREATIVITY, EMOTION.)

[Coralie] I knew early on as a child I wanted to work with my hands doing something creative.

(A portrait of Coralie.)

(On-screen text: Coralie, Jewellery Designer)

[Coralie] In my work, right at the start of the process, I use my hands to create powerful lines, release images onto paper.

(Close-up of Coralie's hands unrolling a bamboo paintbrush case. She begins to fill in gold and silver colors on the blocks she has sketched with delicate brush strokes.)

(On-screen text: Watercolour painting)

(Close-up of the brush dipping into a glass of water, tendrils of paint swirling from its tip.)

[Coralie] Hands serve as instruments of intensity. We can take inspiration from anywhere our mind finds it. It can come from nature, a shape, a texture...

(The camera pans over the pictures on Coralie's desk, each of them bears a label with the name of a collection.)

(On-screen text: Final contrast)

(Coralie uses a pen to add an extra layer of depth to her design.)

[Coralie] We strive for harmony, for the right proportions, for balance, too. In a collection like Ice Cube, what's interesting is to work on the proportions, placing volume in the right places.

(On-screen text: Arranging the volumes)

(Coralie arranges chunky gray plastic cubes into a scaled-up version of the chocker she has imagined.)

[Coralie] The choker stands out, as it has a certain sensuality. It is worn like a ribbon tied against the skin, fitting closely around the neck, very close to the skin.

(She touches and admires the shining, delicate finished choker.)

(On-screen text: Fine-tuning the meshing on the scale model)

(Coralie lifts and bends the gray chunky model version of the piece.)

[Coralie] The piece is interesting in and of itself with its solid geometrical shape that is at the same time very flexible. Something that drives me in my work is working with other people. Chopard brings together a true wealth of talents. We hand our passion from one trade to the next.

(She lifts and bends the finished choker in the same way, its gold cubes glinting.)

I designed this piece, but to me, the greatest honor is making the people who brought it to life proud.

[piano music fades out]

(On-screen text: Chopard - The artisan of emotions - Since 1860)