Hammered Hoop Earrings

For the woman who reads luxury as something handmade, not something polished.

These 18k yellow gold hammered huggie hoop earrings carry a series of rhythmic horizontal grooves cut across the wide face of the hoop, breaking the metal into a satin-soft, light-scattering surface that contrasts deliberately with the standard mirror finish. The hammered face reflects light as a diffused glow rather than a sharp point, giving the hoop the kind of warmth that polished gold cannot reproduce. The huggie silhouette keeps the volume close to the lobe. The metal is 18k Italian gold, struck with the 750 millesimal mark and the registered Italian provincial hallmark that identifies authentic provincial goldsmithing.

Hand-hammered surfaces are a Florentine bench tradition older than the bench itself. The technique was inherited from Etruscan goldsmiths who worked the same hills above the Arno before there was a Florence, and it was formalized by the masters who took the Ponte Vecchio after 1593, when the Medici officially registered the bridge as the home of the goldsmith's trade. 

This is the earring for the woman who wants the gold to look like it came from a workshop, not a factory. The pair that reads as art before it reads as ornament.

It reads artisanal. It reads warm. It reads unmistakably hand-finished.

Sourced from the boutiques of Ponte Vecchio, Florence. 18k yellow gold, 750 millesimal fineness, with the registered Italian provincial hallmark. DDP worldwide delivery, fully insured, duties paid before the earrings leave Florence. Perfect Fit Guarantee included.