LIMEN: the BROKEN HEARTS bag in black full-grain calfskin, cut and sewn by hand in Italy

Reliquary LIMEN

Earrings

ANULUS VESPER

€ 210

Handmade in Italy

The stone

Vesper · dusk violet

Vesper · dusk violet

How you wear it

Not a quantity. A choice.

Leaves the atelier 08 Oct–19 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.

Included ·it arrives in LIMENblack calfskin reliquary, sewn by hand

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.

LeatherFull-grain calfskin ColourBlack OriginCalves raised in Italy MadeCut and sewn by hand in Italy

All reliquaries

To give ·through our concierge DONUMa gift they choose themselves Fragmenta this piece leaves 21,000 fragments to your name.

Anatomy of a wound

Oxidized 925 silver, small lobe hoop. Three natural amethysts in brilliant cut set in sequence per single earring, six per pair, dusk worn close at the lobe.

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.

The stone

Stones

Stone Card · digital

The concierge issues it after your order, with your stone's number. Any question about it? Write to us.

3 natural amethysts, light violet · brilliant cut · approx. 0.075ct (Single) / 0.15ct (Double)

A natural amethyst, light violet, the colour of the hour before dusk turns. The earth rarely makes this tone twice: the same parcel will run from lavender to a clearer lilac, and the zoning inside the crystal is visible if you look for it. That variation is the stone telling you where it came from.

Each stone is set by hand. Tone is chosen piece by piece, so what you receive is the closest reading we have, never a photocopy of the image.

Natural stones only, each called by its real name.

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

Once worn, an earring belongs to one body, forever. Hygiene forbids its return, and so do we. 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 metal 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 number

Every piece with natural stones has its Stone Card: a digital certificate of origin and authenticity with a number of its own, issued only by the concierge after the order. It states the species, the cut, the carats and the measurements.

The hands

The wax burns out of the plaster at 720 degrees and the molten metal 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.