SERTUM SANGUINIS
- Material
- 925 Sterling Silver
- Stones
- 4 natural garnets, pyrope red · brilliant cut
- Finish
- Chiaroscuro
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
Reliquary · LIMEN
925 Sterling Silver · 4 natural garnets, pyrope red · brilliant cut · Chiaroscuro
SERTUM SANGUINIS
$470
Handmade in Italy
How you wear it
Not a quantity. A choice.Leaves the atelier 07 Oct–16 Oct The forge is open
Final price. Duties and import taxes included, nothing to pay on delivery.
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Complimentary shipping from $1,000
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.
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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
Oxidized 925 silver, hand forged into an ear cuff. Two strands twist around each other and close on the ear without a piercing, four natural garnets in brilliant cut caught between the turns, the maison star struck on the band. Sold single or as a pair.
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
A natural garnet, pyrope, cut round brilliant. Red the way blood is red, deep and slightly dark, with the light coming back from inside rather than off the surface. It formed in the earth over millions of years and it carries the evidence: minute inclusions, a tone that shifts by a shade from one stone to the next. That is origin, not fault.
Each stone is set by hand, one at a time. Natural stones arrive in small parcels and never twice the same, so when a tone runs out it is not reordered, it is replaced by the next thing the earth gives us.
Laboratory-grown or natural, we say the real name of the stone, and we rank neither. The third commandment.
The stones are selected one by one: small variations are part of the piece. Would you like to choose them with us? Write to us.
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 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 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 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.
