The pendant hanging from the chain on a grey background, front view

Collection Gioielli Classici·Pendente·Daisy cluster setting

Daisy necklace in white gold, eight diamonds around the central brilliant

Nine diamonds within eight millimeters thirty: one at the center, eight in a ring around it.

€1.700,00 P646b

Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.

A brilliant at the center, and eight smaller diamonds forming a circle around it: the surround closes into an eight-pointed rosette. The metal is barely seen. It is only the claws, small spheres that appear between one stone and the next and hold two at a time. Behind there is no plate: the setting is open, and from the side you can see through the little rings that carry the stones. Above, a flat, flattened bail, and an oval-link chain passing through a single ring.

Two grams sixty-five of eighteen-carat gold. The central brilliant is natural: eighteen points of carat, color F and clarity VS1. The surround adds another twenty-one points, and in all that is thirty-nine points divided over nine stones. The rosette measures eight millimeters thirty in diameter, the chain forty-one and a half centimeters. The center stone, read inside the crown, looks larger than its eighteen points: that is what the daisy cluster is made to do. Earrings from the same family exist, with the same design: they are photographed beside the pendant in the last shot, and they are not included.

The material

Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.

2,65 gramsWhite gold 18kt 750‰
0,18 carats Diamonds · center
0,21 carats Diamonds · surround, eight stones
Metals
White gold 18kt 750‰
Style
Daisy cluster setting
Dimensions
Diameter approx. 8.30 mm · chain length 41.5 cm
Technique
Made entirely by hand.

The diamonds

Natural. Position, cut, carats, colour and clarity.

Center 0,18ct Brilliant F-VS1Natural diamond
Surround, eight stones 0,21ct Brilliant Natural diamonds, total
In three-quarter view on the marble, with the chain laid out on the stone
From above: the chain runs down diagonally and the flower of stones stays at the bottom
Grazing view: the bezel open at the back and how little the rosette rises
Close front view: the eight stones of the surround around the central brilliant
The flat bail that holds the link, seen in three-quarter view from above
Resting on a wooden branch, at a distance: how small it really is
Cut out on a white background: the bail and the first link of the chain
Next to the daisy earrings from the same family, which are not included

How it is made

The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.

Daisy cluster setting
The daisy cluster, “entourage” in the French catalogs, is a circle of small stones set around a larger one. The eye does not measure the center stone on its own: it reads it together with the surround, and sees it as larger than it is. It is the reason the setting has been used for centuries, and at the same time its difficulty: the seats of the surround must all be at the same height and the same distance from the center, because a single one out of plane breaks the circle, and in a circle the error is seen before anything else.
Brilliant cut
Fifty-seven facets calculated so that the light entering from above comes back out on the same side. It is the cut that makes a diamond sparkle, and the reason a badly cut diamond stays dull.

I don't look at what others are doing: I would rather create in my own style. That is what makes our jewelry recognizable.

Fabio Gori — Anna Gioielli, Tosi

Made for you

Every piece leaves the bench made to order: sizes and details are agreed before the work begins.

The goldsmith's workshop is also the place where made-to-measure jewellery is created and family pieces are restored: if you have an idea, or something you want brought back to how it was, that is where it starts.

Ask for a made-to-measure piece
Made by
Anna Gioielli

A goldsmith's workshop in Tosi, on the slopes of the Pratomagno: Anna opened it in 1988, her sons Fabio and Francesco carry it on. Piercing, repoussé, chasing and burin engraving — the Florentine school, with the workshop in full view of the shop.