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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
Della stessa famiglia
Due modi di cercare quello che somiglia a questo.









