{"id":2032559,"date":"2016-05-04T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2016\/05\/04\/mellerio-the-goldsmith-of-the-coupe-des-mousquetaires-for-35-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:26:35","slug":"mellerio-the-goldsmith-of-the-coupe-des-mousquetaires-for-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2016\/05\/04\/mellerio-the-goldsmith-of-the-coupe-des-mousquetaires-for-35-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellerio, the goldsmith of the Coupe des Mousquetaires for 35 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1981, Mellerio has designed and produced trophies for the prestigious Roland Garros tennis tournament, including the famous Coupe des Mousquetaires.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Troph%C3%A9es1.png\" alt=\"Trophies1\" width=\"527\" height=\"626\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173442\"\/><br \/>\nGoldsmiths transform a simple sheet of silver into a work of art:<\/p>\n<p>The silversmith cuts and coats the silver sheet until it corresponds to the shape of the design and shapes the silhouette of the cup on an exotic wood mandrel.<br \/>\nThe founder creates the swan handles and the vine leaf frieze by pouring molten metal into impressions.<br \/>\nThe chaser underlines and refines the motifs with a burin<br \/>\nAfter checking each of the goblet&#8217;s component parts, the goldsmith assembles them.<br \/>\nThe polisher intervenes only in the last place, to give the cut its shine.<br \/>\nFinally, the Engraver immortalizes the tournament by transferring the name of the winner of the year on the base.<br \/>\nThis cut of about fourteen kilos requires more than a hundred hours of work.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CuAFm6orcaI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1981, Mellerio has designed and produced trophies for the prestigious Roland Garros tennis tournament, including the famous Coupe des Mousquetaires. Goldsmiths transform a simple sheet of silver into a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30122],"tags":[53567,69004],"class_list":["post-2032559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watches-and-jewelry","tag-mellerio","tag-musketeers-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}