Collection Gioielli di Firenze·Anello·Florentine mesh work
White gold band ring with openwork mesh and diamonds on the shoulders
Thirteen brilliants in the mesh, twenty-two along the two edges.
Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.
It is a straight band, wide, divided into three registers. Down the middle runs a very close pierced mesh — almost a honeycomb — and on that mesh thirteen brilliants are set, each in its own square cell. On either side, two tracks of small stones: twenty-two in all, one row on each side, closed between borders engraved with the burin.
Nine grams forty of eighteen-carat white gold. The thirteen in the mesh come to thirty-five points of carat, the twenty-two on the borders twenty-eight: all natural diamonds, color F and clarity VVS. The mesh really is open, and against the light you can see it.
The material
Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.
- Metals
- White gold 18kt 750‰
- Style
- Florentine mesh work
- Technique
- Made entirely by hand, with piercing and burin engraving along the edges.
The diamonds
Natural. Position, cut, carats, colour and clarity.
How it is made
The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.
- Openwork
- The metal is drilled and then cut out from the inside with a very fine saw blade, until the solid sheet becomes a design of voids. It is a piece of work that allows no second attempt: what is taken away does not come back.
- Mesh work
- The piercing does not make a single hole: it makes a regular mesh, and every link of that mesh has to carry the weight of the others. Getting one cut wrong means weakening the whole net.
- Burin engraving
- The burin is a goldsmith's small chisel, pushed by hand. It does not scratch: it lifts a shaving of metal and leaves a clean furrow that catches the light. It is the mark that for five centuries has set the Florentine goldsmiths' school apart.
- 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 ring is made to the size of the person who will wear it: we settle it together 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.
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.
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