PALLIUM AUREUM VIRIDIS

Solid 18kt gold, hand-forged into a cross and brought to a satin AUREUM finish. The arms are flat and uneven, broken at the tips; a small four-pointed star is engraved at each end of the crossbar, and cracks run down the lower arm. At the crossing, a sheet of gold wraps the cross like a mantle and turns once more around the lower arm. The sheet is torn along a jagged edge and shows three emeralds in brilliant cut, each held by small beads of gold. On the back, BROKEN HEARTS is written along the crossbar, one word on each side of the wrap. Available as Minor or Magnus.

Material

Solid 18kt gold · 750/1000

Finish

AUREUM

The same chiaroscuro in gold: light does not slip away. It lingers like a warm glow rising from the dark.

18kt is an alloy: 750 parts gold in a thousand, the rest other metals. Over time the surface may darken slightly.

Stones

Light-green emerald · natural

Natural stones only, each called by its real name.

The quality

Natural emeralds. An emerald is read together with its inclusions, the fine veils inside the crystal that are different in every stone: the maison chooses the green by eye and matches it across the whole piece.

Treatment

The emeralds are the only stones of the maison treated with oil: a clear oil fills the finest fissures of the crystal and makes the green clearer.

Where it is born

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

Born only when you claim it, in the configuration you chose. The forge does not take back what it has made for one person alone. By law, the right of withdrawal does not apply to goods made to measure or clearly personalised for one person alone (art. 59, para 1, letter c of Italian Legislative Decree 206/2005 and, for EU consumers, art. 16(c) of Directive 2011/83/EU). A wrong size is not a return: we resize it free, for as long as the forge stands. If, by exception, the maison accepts a piece back, it is never resold: it is melted down and the metal goes back to the crucible. 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 about three weeks ahead and write to support@brokenhearts.co: it takes priority.

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 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: up to twelve working days at the bench, and the date on this page is kept.

The rest is written in the Codex.