SUTURA AUREUM ABYSSUS

Solid 18kt gold, hand forged to a satin AUREUM finish, shaped into a wide ear cuff. A broad band opened by a single straight cut that runs across it, one natural blue sapphire in brilliant cut set in the opening, the seam left in sight instead of closed. Worn without a piercing, sold single or as a pair.

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

Midnight-blue sapphire · natural

Natural stones only, each called by its real name.

The quality

Natural blue sapphires, corundum like the ruby: the blue comes from iron and titanium. The maison chooses the stones by eye and matches the tone across the whole piece.

Treatment

The sapphires are heat treated, like the rubies: the heat intensifies the blue and clears the stone.

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 order it, in the configuration you chose, single or as a pair. What is made for one person alone cannot return. 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.