Médaillon de la Paix
A hand-engraved disc from the house pattern book, with a single stone at its centre.
- ReferenceSR-1327-06
- Stone0.50 ct round brilliant, F, VS1
- Carat0.50
- Metal18ct yellow gold
- CollectionArchives
€9,400
Each piece is finished by one setter and leaves with their name on the certificate. Nothing here is made twice — where a design is repeated, the stone is not.
- Table59.0%
- Crown32.8°
- Pavilion40.3°
- Facets58
This stone is normally traced live from its own recorded proportions. Your device is being spared the arithmetic — the measured angles are listed alongside.
This stone, not a stock one
The gem beside this text is not a photograph and not a video. It is built from the proportions recorded against this piece and traced facet by facet, so the light coming back out of it is the light this geometry actually returns.
Cut is the one variable a photograph cannot show and the one that costs the most. A stone a degree shallow in the pavilion leaks light through its own back and goes dull in the hand, which is exactly the thing a retouched product shot hides.
- Stone Ø5.16 mm
- Piece Ø18.40 mm
- Price€9,400
- Lead timeFour to nine weeks
Actually this big
The circle is the girdle of the stone at 5.16 mm; the finished piece measures 18.40 mm across. If you have set your screen against a bank card, this is life size. If you have not, it is the browser's guess of 96 pixels to the inch — and it is almost certainly wrong.
The engraving is the house’s own guilloché pattern, cut by hand with a graver rather than rolled on. Under a loupe the lines are not perfectly parallel, which is how you tell.
The stone sits flush with the surface of the disc so nothing stands above the engraving. That decision costs the stone some light — it is set into a plate rather than into open air, so light can only reach it from above — and the cut is opened up to compensate: a 59% table and a 32.8° crown, near the shallow end of what we will cut, chosen for a stone that will never be lit from below.
The reverse is left plain and unmarked apart from the hallmark and the reference. It is the only surface of the piece anybody ever asks us to engrave.
- Enquiries[email protected]
- Telephone+33 1 42 60 00 00
- ReplyWithin two working days
- RegardingSR-1327-06
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