Ribbed Hoop Earrings

For the woman whose mother had a pair of gold hoops that nobody is allowed to touch.

These 18k yellow gold small ribbed hoop earrings carry a continuous series of fine grooves around the body of the hoop, the kind of texture Italian women have been wearing since the Sixties and that has never quite gone out of fashion. The diameter is small enough to read as a daily piece, the texture is deep enough to read as a vintage one. Closed with a secure latch-back so the hoop sits perfectly aligned at 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.

The ribbed hoop is the earring of two generations of Italian women. The Florentine bench masters who took the Ponte Vecchio after 1593, when the Medici officially registered the bridge as the home of the trade, perfected the technique of cutting parallel grooves into a small hoop without distorting the round profile. 

This is the earring for the woman who reads luxury as inheritance. The pair that looks like it came from a drawer, even when it came in a box.

It reads vintage. It reads sophisticated. It reads as the gold of a previous generation, made today.

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.