Rare Pearls

A quaint, custom showroom with real provenance, built on a foundation dating back to 1991, where clients from around the world come to browse, ask questions, and find a piece that’s genuinely theirs. The same eye for refinement that shapes the work on canvas shapes what Rydge Studio Bora Bora chooses for its showroom.

The path into pearls began the moment Bora Bora became home, cutting teeth in local boutiques before moving up through the Robert Wan brand’s luxury resorts at Conrad and St. Regis as head of sales and manager, and spending ten years at the highly accredited OPEC boutique. During that period, Tahia Pearls brought Rydge Studio Bora Bora’s founder on board to run seminars in both French and English for guests of the MS Paul Gauguin. The seminars themselves were what drove sales and leads, a critical informational tool, not just for Tahia Pearls but for the pearl industry as a whole, in getting the right information across to clients. The seminars remained the heart of it.

Over those two decades, it’s been a privilege to guide an extraordinary range of clients, honeymooners choosing their first piece together, couples marking silver jubilees and long-standing anniversaries, and discerning, high-net-worth clientele arriving by private jet, cruise liner, and private yacht. Whatever the occasion or the budget, the same standard applies: honest guidance, in a trade where poor information and pressured sales tactics are still too common. That commitment to transparency, in English and in French, is what’s built lasting trust with visitors from every corner of the globe, and it remains the heart of Rydge Studio Bora Bora’s showroom today.

It’s a path shaped by some of the most respected names in Tahitian pearls, local boutiques, the Robert Wan brand, and Tahia Pearls all played their part. And it is OPEC’s collaboration with Rydge Studio Bora Bora which continues today, bringing the quality of these rare pearls to our clientele.

A closer look at the collection is on its way. In the meantime, a glimpse of what’s waiting in the showroom.