ORBITA AUREUM NOX
Kept close to hearing.
- Material
- Solid 18kt Gold
- Stones
- Natural black diamonds · brilliant cut · ~0.24ct (Single) / 0.48ct (Double)
- Finish
- Aureum Satin
Handmade in Italy
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Solid 18kt Gold · Natural black diamonds · brilliant cut · ~0.24ct (Single) / 0.48ct (Double) · Aureum Satin
ORBITA AUREUM NOX
Handmade in Italy
Signature
Cast in solid 18kt gold, one commission at a time. There is no price list: each piece is quoted in private, and every keeper is numbered.
Contact the conciergeAnatomy of a wound
Solid 18kt gold, hand-forged and brought to a satin Aureum finish. Eight black diamonds in brilliant cut orbit the edge of the ear, night turning around itself in gilded light. One of a kind: every facet, every shadow, every orbit is unrepeatable.
Materials
Material
Solid 18kt Gold
Finish
Aureum
The same chiaroscuro cast in gold: light does not slip away. It lingers like a warm glow rising from the dark. Caravaggio's tension between light and shadow, in metal.
The stone
Stones
Natural black diamonds · brilliant cut · ~0.24ct (Single) / 0.48ct (Double)
A natural black diamond. The hardest black there is, and the only one that does not concede: it absorbs light rather than returning it. The surface carries the structure the crystal was born with, a faint internal grain that no laboratory stone reproduces.
Each stone is set by hand. Black diamond is cut slowly and rejects more material than it keeps, so availability follows what the cutter releases, never a catalogue.
A natural black diamond. The hardest black there is, and the only one that does not concede: it absorbs light rather than returning it. The surface carries the structure the crystal was born with, a faint internal grain that no laboratory stone reproduces.
Each stone is set by hand. Black diamond is cut slowly and rejects more material than it keeps, so availability follows what the cutter releases, never a catalogue.
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 the Oromare workshops and finished in Naples' 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. 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.
The anatomy of value
Three hands
Lost-wax cast at 720 degrees. Finished by hand, grit 220 to 1200. Each grain set by hand, the metal carved open, then closed back over the stone. Three workshops touch every piece. None of them hurries.
The days
Three to ten working days of hand labor. Fourteen at most, when the piece is engraved. You are not waiting for a parcel. You are waiting for the work.
The hundred
The forge takes one hundred new clients a month. When the list is full, it closes. It reopens the month after. Those in the Register never queue: for them, the forge opens first.
The rest is written in the Lex Centum.
Forged One by One
Every piece is born in Naples, in the hands that forge it.
