Black Gold Ruby Pendant Necklace

Fine ruby pendant set with natural rubies in 18k.

The two largest rubies are unheated and weigh 2ctw, the halo rubies weigh 0.8ctw.

The ruby pendant is paired with an 18k black jade bead necklace.

Made in the style of Georgian pendants, fully-bezelled and dropped into a jello cup, small rubies come alive in an urbane way.

For a ruby pendant weighing a mere 2.8ctw, with neither diamond nor gleaming gold, the pendant surprises beyond its physical size.

Carried by the darkened gold and jade, nothing but the rubies’ red become illumined by the dark.

Photos on models show the aura of rubies worn with hardstone in and away from daylight.

Photos also show two very different pendants paired with two jade colors (all hardstone); jade enriches through its hardness and ritual.

Unlike onyx, on close up, the jade beads are not black-black but the darkest green jade can get, to the eyes black.

When we put the red onto the black, the union is an attractive zone of a personal sphere.

It is complementarity that returns the eye many times – to the idea of wearing rubies (and jade) in a way that turns heads.

With heft, built like a miniature object, at 18mm tall, the pendant is designed to clip over most necklaces, chain or bead, and just at home on a tennis necklace.

The jade beads are 4mm, the necklace is 17″. Even black, wearing jade is innate ritual.