For a promise
Sapphire Wing — Blue Sapphire Butterfly Necklace and Brooch
Set into betrothal rings for eight hundred years, chosen for constancy.
A swallowtail with the wings held open and the lower wing drawn out into a tail. Natural blue sapphires run down the centre of each wing; a green pavé follows the outer edge.
Made after you order it · up to 20 days · 925 sterling silver
- 01 A stone is chosen for your order by hand, held to the light.
- 02 It is set in solid silver, finished, and checked.
- 03 It rests, and is wrapped by hand with its card — the stone, and the date it was finished.
- 04 Dispatched with tracking. Up to twenty days.
- Free delivery, no minimum
- Tracked worldwide
- 14-day returns
The story
It fastens two ways — on the chain, or pinned. The scale is deliberate: at 32 mm across it is closer to a small object than to a charm.
Materials
- Natural blue sapphire, 5 × 10 mm and 3 × 6 mm
- Nano emerald-green accent stones
- Approx. 32.1 × 25.8 mm
- Solid 925 sterling silver with a gold-plated finish
Made to order. Plating is a surface finish and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not.
Sapphire Wing — Blue Sapphire Butterfly Necklace and Brooch
Every frame is the piece itself, photographed as it is — sapphire, set in solid sterling silver.
Sapphire
Second-hardest thing on earth, and it decided to be the colour of the sky.
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The one everybody knows
Constancy
Set into betrothal rings for eight hundred years before a diamond was thought of for the purpose, and chosen for one reason: it does not change.
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Less known
Heaven, pointed at
Pope Innocent III fixed sapphire as the stone of the ecclesiastical ring in the twelfth century. Heaven’s colour, on the hand of somebody whose job was to point at it.
Papal decree, 12th century -
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Almost nobody knows
The ruby’s twin
Sapphire and ruby are the same mineral. Corundum. A red one is a ruby and every other colour is a sapphire, and the whole distinction is a trace of chromium against a trace of iron and titanium. One element, four thousand years of separate mythology.
Mineralogy, and what people did with it
All of the above is history and folklore, written down because it is real and it is interesting. It is not a claim about what the stone will do. Some people feel something. Some don’t. More in The Codex
Everything we can tell you
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The stone
Sapphire. What we know about the material in this piece is written on the page above, in the measurements we were given. Where a stone is lab-grown or treated we say so by name. We never call a treated stone natural, and we never use the phrase “semi-precious”.
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The metal
Solid 925 sterling silver. This design carries a plated finish over that silver. Plating is a surface, and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not. We never plate base metal, and we never describe plating as solid gold.
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Made after you order
Nothing here sits in a warehouse. Work begins when the order does, and the piece takes up to 20 days before it ships.
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Wearing it
Put it on last and take it off first: after perfume and hairspray, before swimming, sleeping and washing up.
Jewellery care →
- Free UK delivery
- 30-day returns
- Hallmarked 925 silver
- Nickel-safe fittings
- Gift box included
