RADIX LACRIMA
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Devotion stripped to clarity. Nothing hidden under the cross — belief worn as cold, honest light.
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Handmade in Italy
Anatomy of a wound
Oxidized 925 silver aged with deep oxidation, shaped as a devotional cross, weight pressed into silver, faith made object. Five lab-grown diamonds in brilliant cut held along the cross, devotion stripped to clarity. Available as Minor or Magnus.
Specifications
Dimensions
2.3cm × 1.7cm
Material
925 Sterling Silver
Finish
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is the Broken Hearts signature finish, the light and shadow Caravaggio brought to Naples: light tearing form 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 diamond, explained
Created, not mined
Lab-grown
A real diamond, grown in a laboratory instead of mined. The same carbon crystal, the same hardness, the same fire as a mined stone, indistinguishable to the eye and to the loupe. No mining, fully traceable. Always declared as laboratory-grown.
Colour
D–F
Diamond colour runs from D, perfectly colourless and the rarest, down to Z, visibly yellow. Yours is D–F: the colourless tier, the whitest a diamond gets. The less colour, the more light passes through it.
Clarity
VVS
Clarity measures the tiny natural marks inside the stone, its inclusions. VVS means Very, Very Slightly included: flaws so minute they are invisible to the naked eye and barely visible even under a 10× loupe. Almost perfectly clean.
Caratbrilliant cut
Laboratory grown diamonds, melee size, round brilliant cut. Clarity VVS2, colour D, E, F. Chemically, optically and physically diamond: the same carbon lattice, the same hardness, the same fire, grown in weeks under the conditions that take the earth a billion years.
We select the melee ourselves rather than buying a mixed parcel, so the pavé reads as one continuous surface instead of a row of slightly different stones. Each stone is set by hand, one at a time.
Carat is the diamond's weight, not its size (1 carat = 0.2 grams). More carat, more presence.
Our selection
Sourced
Broken Hearts selects its lab-grown diamonds already in the D–F, VVS range, directly from chosen suppliers. On small-carat stones no individual certificate exists, in any jeweller: quality is guaranteed by the selection at the source, not by a piece of paper.
Creation time
3–7 business days
Every piece is born entirely by hand, so a delay of a few days can occasionally occur. If your piece is a gift or tied to a date, order one to two weeks ahead and write to support@brokenhearts.co: we will give it priority.
Production
Made for you alone
Nothing is made in advance. One atelier, forty years of Italian goldsmith tradition.
Guarantee
Lifetime
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.
Born only when you order it, every sale is final.
Every Broken Hearts piece carries its fracture.
Not to remember what broke, but to wear what endured.
RADIX LACRIMA
Price€ 350
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RADIX LACRIMA
Price€ 350
Forged One by One
Handcrafted in Southern Italy. No shortcuts.
