RELIQUIA AUREUM LACRIMA
Memini
What the fire couldn't take, the gold preserved — a sacred ruin refusing to be forgotten.
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The engraving
Choose the word that stays. We engrave it on the inner shank, against the skin: no one will see it, and you will always know it is there.
The inner shank
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Words that stay
A secret engraved on the inner shank. Visible only to the wearer.
The engraving may differ slightly from the preview.
Handmade in Italy
Anatomy of a wound
Solid 18kt gold, hand-forged and brought to a satin Aureum finish. A deep fracture splits the surface, revealing five small lab-grown diamonds in brilliant cut, aligned along the relic like light the collapse could not dim.
Specifications
Material
Solid 18kt Gold
Finish
Aureum
Aureum is the same chiaroscuro cast in gold: light does not slip away, it lingers like a warm glow rising from the dark. Caravaggio's tension between light and shadow, in metal.
The diamond, explained
Created, not mined
Lab-grown
Not a substitute, but a diamond in the fullest sense of the word. Born of pure carbon under the same heat and pressure that forge one in the heart of the earth, mastered this time by human hands in weeks instead of a billion years. Identical to a mined diamond in chemistry, hardness and light, indistinguishable even under a gemologist's loupe. Yet with no mine torn open and no hand exploited, traceable from the first atom. Set in solid 18kt gold, it is the same wound you already wear in silver, cast this time in light. Always declared as created in a laboratory.
Colour
D–F
Diamond colour runs from D, perfectly colourless and the rarest, down to Z, visibly yellow. Yours is D–F: the colourless tier, the whitest a diamond gets. The less colour, the more light passes through it.
Clarity
VVS
Clarity measures the tiny natural marks inside the stone, its inclusions. VVS means Very, Very Slightly included: flaws so minute they are invisible to the naked eye and barely visible even under a 10× loupe. Almost perfectly clean.
Carat~0.15ct
Laboratory grown diamonds, melee size, round brilliant cut. Clarity VVS2, colour D, E, F. Chemically, optically and physically diamond: the same carbon lattice, the same hardness, the same fire, grown in weeks under the conditions that take the earth a billion years.
We select the melee ourselves rather than buying a mixed parcel, so the pavé reads as one continuous surface instead of a row of slightly different stones. Each stone is set by hand, one at a time.
Carat is the diamond's weight, not its size (1 carat = 0.2 grams). More carat, more presence.
Our selection
Sourced
Broken Hearts selects its lab-grown diamonds already in the D–F, VVS range, directly from chosen suppliers. On small-carat stones no individual certificate exists, in any jeweller: quality is guaranteed by the selection at the source, not by a piece of paper.
Creation time
3–7 business days
Every piece is born entirely by hand, so a delay of a few days can occasionally occur. If your piece is a gift or tied to a date, order one to two weeks ahead and write to support@brokenhearts.co: we will give it priority.
Resizing
Always free
Wrong size? Send it back at any time and we resize it at no cost, as many times as you need. You only cover the shipping to us. Learn more
Production
Made for you alone
Nothing is made in advance. One atelier, forty years of Italian goldsmith tradition.
Guarantee
Lifetime
Your piece remains under the atelier's custody for life. If it ever breaks, bends or loses a stone, we take it back and restore it. Forever.
Born only when you order it, every sale is final.
Every Broken Hearts piece carries its fracture.
Not to remember what broke, but to wear what endured.
RELIQUIA AUREUM LACRIMA
Price€ 4.170
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RELIQUIA AUREUM LACRIMA
Price€ 4.170
The engraving
Choose the word that stays. We engrave it on the inner shank, against the skin: no one will see it, and you will always know it is there.
The inner shank
0/20
Words that stay
A secret engraved on the inner shank. Visible only to the wearer.
The engraving may differ slightly from the preview.
Forged One by One
Handcrafted in Southern Italy. No shortcuts.
