The Meridian Solitaire
$14,800
Scintilla
You have never really seen it.
Photographs hold still. Water never does. Scintilla makes every piece to be seen moving.
Begin the viewingScintillation
You have never really seen it.
Photographs hold still. Water never does.
Made to be seen moving.
So we put ours where nothing holds still.
Go under.
Fifty seven facets, and the sun moving every one of them.
This is fire.
White light, split into every colour it was hiding.
Four weeks a piece. We do not rush light.
See it move before you own it.
Spin it, take it apart, hold it to the light. Then decide.
The Meridian Solitaire
Platinum1.20 caratFifty seven facets, cut to one light
The collection
Four pieces. That is the whole house.
The Ordinate Band
$6,200
The Culet Pendant
$8,400
The Facet Studs
$9,600
Brilliance
The light it gives back.
Brilliance is the white light that returns to your eye. It is the only part of a stone a still photograph gets close to, and even then it gets it wrong, because brilliance changes with every degree you turn. Turn it.
Drag to turn
Made to be worn wet
Nothing here is precious about the sea.
Salt water does not touch platinum and it does not touch 18 carat gold. Swim in it. That is the whole point of making it this way.
Fire
Every colour it was hiding.
White light enters the crown, bends, and comes apart into the spectrum on its way back out. Jewellers call it fire. It is the reason a stone looks alive in sunlight and dead in a product photo.
Hold to bring the light through the stone
- Refractive index
- 2.417
- Dispersion
- 0.044
- Crown angle
- 34.5°
- Light returned
- 91%
Scintillation
Three parts. One flash.
Scintillation is the pattern of flashes a piece throws as it moves, and a solitaire makes it with three pieces of metal and stone doing their jobs at once. Here they are, apart.
Keep scrolling to take it apart
Four weeks
Nothing here is fast.
01
The rough
One stone is chosen from a parcel of forty. Thirty nine go back.
02
The cut
Fifty seven facets, placed by one cutter over nine days. No machine finishes it.
03
The set
The prongs are raised, bent, and burnished by hand, then checked under a loupe.
The honest part
What people ask before they buy.
What if it looks different in person?
That is the fear that stops most people, and it is fair. Photographs flatten a stone. So we put the piece on this page moving, turning, and apart, and we still expect you to see it in your hand before you commit. Your viewing is free and you can walk away from it.
Can I really swim in it?
Yes. Salt water does nothing to platinum or to 18 carat gold, and a well set stone does not move. Rinse it in fresh water afterwards, the same as you would your own skin. Sun cream is the only thing that dulls it, and that washes off.
How do I know it is worth the price?
Every piece ships with its grading report from an independent lab, the cutter's name, and the four weeks of work logged by date. You can take all of it to any appraiser you like. We would rather you did.
Can it be resized?
Yes, once, free, at any point in the first year. After that it is charged at cost, which is usually under two hundred dollars.
What if I change my mind?
Thirty days, worn or not, full refund. You pay nothing to return it. We have had four come back in six years.
Who actually makes these?
One cutter and two setters in a workshop of five people. You will meet whoever made yours at the viewing, and they will tell you what fought them.
In their words
Three people who bought one.
I had looked at the photos for a month. I turned it on the site once and understood what I had been missing.
The part that sold me was the page pulling it apart. Nobody else shows you the inside.
It arrived looking exactly like the screen. That has never happened to me before.
No obligation
Come and hold it.
Forty minutes, in the workshop or by video. One of us brings the piece, a loupe, and the grading report. Nothing is sold in the room.
Booked.
We will write to you within one working day with two times to choose from.