18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings

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18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings
18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings
18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings
18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings
18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings
18k Antique Rose Cut Diamond Earrings

SG$980Approx. USD762 - USD762

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Description

18k antique diamond stud earrings set with hand cut diamonds.

The earrings are designed to be an 8-sided star, but the corners and triangles give the impression of a pinwheel.

Like rose cut diamonds, these diamonds are hand cleaved. But unlike rose cut diamonds, these hand cut diamonds are even more random, in a style peculiar to the jewelry of South East Asia, of Straits Chinese provenance.

These hand cleaved diamonds are not perfectly round or perfectly anything. The gold work is pierced to the size of each diamond, however uncalibrated. Thus they require skillfullness to set.

By rounding the ends with gold, the diamonds sit tight and the contrast further enhances the brilliance. Straits Chinese jewelry relies very much on gold work to illuminate the fewer cut diamonds.

Hand cleaved diamonds are valued not so much for their weight or individual clarity, but for their collective brilliance in a piece of jewelry.

Sometimes you find natural inclusions in these natural diamonds, especially since their primitive cuts will always showcase an almost glass-like transparency. Similarly, this explains why the shine of old diamonds is more like a mirror than like the halo of modern faceted diamonds.

The draw of hand cut diamonds is easy to understand. When our eyes cannot tell individuality from perfection we regard imperfection with soulfulness.

Each stud comes to 11.5mm.

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Have you arrived here because our photographs piqued your interest?

Our photographs and even our descriptions are different because we work in a vacuum. We live in a small* country where money and time run fast, and difference is a luxury. We ignore all of that (or try to) everyday, so we’re different everyday, however ill-adjusted, however in-between worlds.

The east and west, art and science…

Gem Gardener is made up of two people – an artist and a craftsman. Together, we run a store-and-workshop in Singapore, somewhere near the beach. In a country where we are told by one cabinet minister that we CAN have sex in small spaces (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37627269), we are an anomaly.

Thankfully, our ironic island is a wonderful melting pot of many cultures and ethnicities. You will see the curious confluence of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and English styles in many of the pieces we curate in Gem Gardener.

“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the colour and the fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.”

* Luxembourg is small. Singapore is tiny.

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