On necklaces and pendants

A necklace is the piece people see first, and it is the one this house has made longest: the register's earliest entry is a gold chain cut in 1934, and it is still repairable today. What sits on this page is everything currently held — pendants set with a single stone, collars drawn flat so they lie under a shirt, chains at four gauges, and the archive pieces that come up once and do not come back.

Every piece here is set at the workshop by one person from the first cut to the last polish, hallmarked, and entered in the register under a number that stays with it for life. Chains are cut at 16, 18, 20 and 24 inches and can be shortened at any salon at no charge. Engraving is included, cut by hand in one of four house hands, and adds five working days to an order.