SIGILLUM
- Material
- 925 Sterling Silver
- Stones
- Finish
- Chiaroscuro · Eroded
Handmade in Italy
LIMEN
The threshold.
- Leather
- Full-grain calfskin
- Colour
- Black
- Origin
- Calves raised in Italy
- Made
- Cut and sewn by hand in Italy
The first thing of BROKEN HEARTS you hold in your hands, before the piece. Full grain means the hide keeps its whole surface: it is not sanded or corrected, so no two carry the same marks. It closes with a leather tie wrapped around it.
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Full-grain calfskin · Black · Calves raised in Italy · Cut and sewn by hand in Italy
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925 Sterling Silver · · Chiaroscuro · Eroded
SIGILLUM
Handmade in Italy
Size
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.
A secret engraved on the inner shank. Visible only to the wearer.
The engraving may differ slightly from the preview.
REQUIEM
The forge has stopped.
This piece was desired more than we had foreseen. We chose to stop forging it. It will not be produced again, and if one day the forge takes it back, nothing about it will be taken for granted.
Anatomy of a wound
Oxidized 925 silver, hand-forged. A sealed disc held in a cratered bezel, the one surface the breaking never reached, every secret kept under it. One of a kind: the oxidation settles differently on every piece.
Materials
Material
925 Sterling Silver
Finish
Chiaroscuro
The signature finish of the house: the light and shadow of Caravaggio, form torn out of the dark. Every surface is burnished by hand so the shadow stays in the grooves and the light catches the relief. No two pieces carry it the same way.
Made for you alone
Where it is born
We do not list handwork among the virtues: for us it is the blood of the work. Each piece is born in Italy, in the Oromare workshops, and finished in the Borgo degli Orefici, where metal has been struck for seven hundred years.
Why it cannot return
Not only for the size and the stone you choose. The design is ours, but the piece is born only because you asked for it: what you bring to life cannot return. By law, the right of withdrawal does not apply to what is made to measure for one person alone (art. 59, para 1, letters c and e of the Italian Consumer Code). A wrong size is not a return: we resize it free, for as long as the forge stands. If, by rare exception, the atelier accepts a piece back, it is never resold: it is melted down and the silver goes back to the crucible. No piece lives twice. And if something is wrong, write to us: a person reads every message, and the maison decides case by case. The Manifesto
Tied to a date?
Handwork can ask for a few extra days. If your piece is a gift or bound to a date, order one to two weeks ahead and write to support@brokenhearts.co: it takes priority.
Anatomy of value
The hundred
One hundred new clients a month. When the hundred are reached the list closes, and opens again the month after. Whoever is already in the Register does not wait: the forge takes their piece first.
The hands
The wax burns out of the plaster at 720 degrees and the silver takes the space it leaves. Then files and paper, from 220 grit to 1200, until no tool mark catches the light. Where there are stones the metal is cut open and closed back over each one. Three workshops work the same piece, one after the other.
The days
The piece is made after your order, not taken from a shelf: three to ten working days at the bench, and the date on this page is a date we keep. You are not waiting for a parcel. You are waiting for the work.
The rest is written in the Codex.
Forged One by One
Every piece is born in Italy, in the hands that forge it.
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The wax
Every form begins in wax, carved by hand: the saw and the burr take away what is not needed.
