The Square pendant on the chain, overall view on a light background

Collection Square·Pendente

White gold Square pendant with Princess diamond and brilliant-cut diamond halo

Ten points of a carat at the center, thirteen in the sixteen brilliants that frame it.

€1.450,00 P663b

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

A square worn on its point. At the center a Princess-cut diamond, square as well, closed in a setting that takes it on all four sides; around it runs a square frame of brilliants, four to a side, with four ribs of metal that start from the corners of the setting and reach the outer corners. Seen from the side the mount is a low box, open at the back: from behind you see the underside of the Princess. The chain passes through the top corner and the square runs along it, with no bail; the company states its length, forty-one centimeters.

The Princess at the center comes to ten points of a carat, color F and clarity VVS: F is the last grade in the colorless band, VVS means inclusions that are found only at ten magnifications. The sixteen brilliants of the frame come to thirteen points in all, eight thousandths of a carat each: they weigh more than the stone they surround, and none of them counts on its own. Seventeen diamonds on three grams forty of eighteen-carat white gold. The same setting and the same frame come back on the earrings and on the ring of the Square series, already on display: this is the third piece.

The material

Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.

3,40 gramsWhite gold 18kt 750‰
0,10 carats Diamonds · center
0,13 carats Diamonds · frame of the setting, four to a side
Metals
White gold 18kt 750‰
Dimensions
Chain length 41 cm
Technique
Made entirely by hand: the square setting of the Princess and the sixteen brilliants of the frame mounted one stone at a time.

The diamonds

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

Center 0,10ct Princess F VVSNatural diamond
Frame of the setting, four to a side 0,13ct Brilliant Sixteen natural diamonds, total
The square from the front: the bezel of the Princess, the frame of brilliants and the box link of the chain
Resting on the white marble, the square standing on its point
Edge-on view: the low thickness of the setting
The reverse: the box open behind and the back of the bezel
On a dark background, the frame of brilliants standing out from the black
Resting on the light cloth, as it falls at the neck
The pendant next to the earrings from the same Square series: the earrings are not included in the price

How it is made

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

Princess cut
A square cut with the facets of the brilliant. It was born in the 1970s to waste less rough: from an octahedron you get much more of it than from a round, where the corners end up as dust. The weak point is the corners, which stay sharp: that is where a knock chips the stone, and for that reason the setting takes it on all four sides.
Brilliant cut
Fifty-seven facets calculated so that the light entering from above comes back from 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.