PONDUS
- Material
- 925 Sterling Silver
- Stones
Handmade in Italy
Click to examine · scroll to magnify
Tap to magnify · drag to move
View
925 Sterling Silver ·
PONDUS
€ 80
Handmade in Italy
Length
Leaves the atelier 07 Oct–16 Oct The forge is open
Final price. Duties and import taxes included, nothing to pay on delivery.
-
Complimentary shipping from € 500
The price you see is the price you pay. Import duties and destination taxes are already inside it, and we settle them with the carrier before the parcel leaves. Nobody will knock at your door asking for more.
-
The Custody · guaranteed for life
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.
Reliquary · From your first piece LIMENThe threshold.
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.
Anatomy of a wound
Solid 925 silver, hand-forged into curb links. Each link is pressed flat until the chain reads as pure weight rather than ornament, settling where it is worn like a small gravity that answers the pulse. Available in multiple lengths. One of a kind: every hammer strike is unrepeatable.
Materials
Material
925 Sterling Silver
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
Cut and closed to your measure. Final, like everything made for one body only. 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.
I
The wax
Every form begins in wax, carved by hand: the saw and the burr take away what is not needed.
