CRUX VIRIDIS
The cross carried in silence.
- Material
- 925 Sterling Silver
- Stones
- 10 laboratory grown green spinels · brilliant cut
- Finish
- Chiaroscuro · Crux
- Size
- 2.3cm × 1.7cm
Handmade in Italy
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925 Sterling Silver · 10 laboratory grown green spinels · brilliant cut · Chiaroscuro · Crux
CRUX VIRIDIS
€ 160
Handmade in Italy
Origin
Choose your stone's originNatural emerald carries its garden, the tiny inner inclusions (the "jardin") are the signature of the real thing, in a deep, velvety green the forged stone never has.
Size
The same fracture, two scales.Made for you alone · 3–10 business days
Leaves the atelier 16 Sep–25 Sep
The forge is open. Pieces ordered now join the queue today. The forge calendar
Sold without a chain. Choose a chain
Fragmenta this piece leaves 16,000 fragments to your name.
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Complimentary shipping from € 300,00
Free shipping on orders of €300 or more. Insured delivery across Europe.
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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.
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Concierge · Reserved for clients
From your first piece you have your own concierge: one person, for everything. Sizes, repairs, commissions, advice. That contact is personal, and it is not on the site. It travels with your first order.
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Anatomy of a wound
Oxidized 925 silver aged with deep oxidation, shaped as a cross, two lines meeting and refusing to come apart. Ten green lab-grown spinels in brilliant cut aligned along the cross, green broken through the junction. Available as Minor or Magnus.
Materials
Material
925 Sterling Silver
Finish
Chiaroscuro
The signature finish of the house: the light and shadow Caravaggio brought to Naples, 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
10 laboratory grown green spinels · brilliant cut
A green spinel grown in a laboratory, cut round brilliant. Cold, saturated green, held at the same intensity through the whole stone. Spinel is hard and bright and takes a sharp polish, so the facets stay crisp against oxidised silver instead of dissolving into it.
Each stone is set by hand, grain by grain: the metal is carved open and closed back over the stone.
A green spinel grown in a laboratory, cut round brilliant. Cold, saturated green, held at the same intensity through the whole stone. Spinel is hard and bright and takes a sharp polish, so the facets stay crisp against oxidised silver instead of dissolving into it.
Each stone is set by hand, grain by grain: the metal is carved open and closed back over the stone.
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
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 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.
