Chunky Hoop Earrings

For the woman who has decided that her earrings are not jewelry, they are punctuation.

These 18k yellow gold chunky hoop earrings are built on a bold, rounded "bombé" profile, polished to a mirror finish on every face so the gold reads as a continuous arc of light around the lobe. The surface is uninterrupted, the volume is deliberate. Available in Italian gold, struck with the corresponding millesimal mark and the registered Italian provincial hallmark that identifies authentic provincial goldsmithing. Substantial in look and engineered for everyday comfort.

The bold polished hoop is one of the Florentine bench's signature forms. The proportions, full at the bottom and thinning into the closure, were perfected on the Ponte Vecchio after 1593, when the Medici officially registered the bridge as the home of the goldsmith's trade, as the kind of hoop that frames the face without competing with it. The light a polished bombé hoop throws is the light the Arno throws at midday: gold, generous, unmistakable.

This is the earring for the woman who wears jewelry as architecture, not decoration. The pair that finishes a face the way a column finishes a doorway.

It reads classic. It reads bold. It reads as Italian gold.

Sourced from the boutiques of Ponte Vecchio, Florence. 9k or 18k yellow Italian gold, with the registered Italian provincial hallmark. DDP worldwide delivery, fully insured, duties paid before the earrings leave Florence. Perfect Fit Guarantee included.