Glassomer: Innovation meets luxury at Boucheron

Glassomer, a spin-off from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Freiburg, is proud to be part of Boucheron's visionary jewelry innovation.

Forbes celebrated the opening of the first Boucheron boutique in New York, where the revolutionary “Quatre 5D Memory” ring was unveiled. The ring, which stores sound art in glass, is based on the latest technology for processing pure glass. The ring was structured using laser processing, a method that is particularly suitable for quartz glass. This laser engraving makes it possible to store enormous amounts of data in nanostructured glass – a technique that combines traditional craftsmanship with scientific progress.

“It's almost unimaginable, but this information will still be readable from this ring millions of years from now,” says Prof. Bastian E. Rapp from IMTEK at the University of Freiburg, from whose laboratory Glassomer was spun off.

Glassomer's expertise shows how innovative glass design is setting new standards not only in industry, but also in the luxury segment.

Link to the detailed article in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2024/09/12/parisian-high-jeweler-boucheron-opens-first-boutique-in-new-york/

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Bastian Rapp
Process Technology
Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)
University of Freiburg
E-mail: bastian.rapp@imtek.uni-freiburg.de

Kerstin Steiger-Merx
Representative Marketing / PR
Faculty of Engineering
University of Freiburg
Phone: 0761/203-8056
E-Mail: steiger-merx@tf.uni-freiburg.de