Made to one wrist. Issued once.

The eye bead is twenty-five centuries old. The wrist arrives first, the bead is chosen to suit it, and the gold is drawn and raised around that bead. Four decisions below, and the bench begins.

The wrist

The measure is the wrist itself, not the finished bracelet: the workshop adds the ease it needs so the eye sits on the outside of the arm and stays there. If you sit between two, the bench confirms the reading before the gold is drawn.

Wrist

Finding the measure

Cut a strip of paper a centimetre wide, wrap it around the wrist just below the bone, snug but not tight, and mark where it overlaps. Laid flat against a ruler, that mark is the figure to choose. A tape measure does the same work in one step.

Measure at the end of the day rather than the start, and on the arm the bracelet will be worn on — the two are rarely the same. If the reading falls between two figures, take the larger: the clasp is set to the measure, and a bracelet that turns is easier to live with than one that binds.

A photograph of the marked strip beside a ruler settles any doubt, and the bench will ask for one if the reading needs it.
The inner face

The outer face belongs to its century. The inner face is yours. An inscription is cut into the inside of the band, in the Roman capitals of the house, before the bead is set. Roman numerals carry a date well: XIV·VI·MMXXVI.

Inscription · optional
0 / 40

Forty characters fit the inner face.
Your name on the record

Every piece travels with its passport: the printed record that documents the piece and stands as its certificate of authenticity. The last of its twelve entries says who owns it now, and that is where your name is printed. Leave the field empty and the line is issued blank, ready to be written by hand.
Name as it should appear · optional

Printed on the last entry of the passport, under “In the collection of”.
Passport
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
7. VII
8. VIII
9. IX
10. X
11. XI
12. XIIIn the collection of
Where the name is printed
Where it goes, and how we reach you

No address is needed yet. The country is what decides duties, tax and whether the piece may leave the Union; the postal address is taken when the measure is confirmed, and not before.

Email

Full name

Country

Import duties and taxes on delivery to the United States are the buyer's responsibility, and not included in the total.

This is a giftThe card is written by hand and travels in the box. The invoice goes to you by email, never inside the parcel.
Phone · optional

The reading is confirmed by email; a number here lets it be a call instead.

What reaches the door · sealed, insured and tracked
What follows

Nothing is charged on this page, and nothing is owed. The commission goes to the bench, the measure is read against the element chosen, and the workshop writes back with a payment link for the total shown here, issued for this reference alone.
1. 01
  The commission is entered, and an acknowledgement with its number reaches your inbox at once.
2. 02
  The bench reads the measure against the element chosen. If a photograph would settle it, that is when it is asked for.
3. 03
  A payment link for the total shown here follows within one working day, by card or by transfer.
4. 04
  The paper is drawn, and two weeks after payment the parcel travels, insured and tracked. Beyond the European Union, the time of the export authorisation is added.
The invoice follows the margin scheme for antiques, and it travels with the passport.

Trailed

The Carthage Series

Made to order · two weeks

Wrist: 170 mm around
Inner face: issued plain
Name on the record: issued blank
Delivery: Spain · insured and tracked
Gift: no

Total$925

Duties and import taxes not included · delivery insured and tracked

Nothing is charged now. The workshop replies within one working day.

A commission is not a purchase: nothing is charged, and nothing is owed until the payment link is paid. Each piece of the Collections is made to your specification — wrist and inscription — and so falls outside the fourteen-day right of withdrawal (Article 16(c), Directive 2011/83/EU); this is restated in writing with the payment link, before anything is paid. The legal guarantee of conformity applies in full. Export beyond the European Union runs on a prior authorisation, prepared by the workshop, and its time is added to the two weeks.

What arrives.

01
The bracelet
One Phoenician eye bead of the 6th century B.C. or later, catalogued in full, held in a band of 18k gold raised to the wrist you give. The bead is held at its ends alone, so the ancient eye stays in view from above and from the side.
02
The passport
Twelve entries, printed and folded into the case: reference, object, culture and period, materials, measurements and weight, condition, the record, what remains open, legal notes, care, the date of issue, and the name of the collector. It is also the certificate of authenticity, so one document carries both.
03
The box
The jewellery case the bracelet travels in, with the passport beside it and a cloth for the gold. It arrives closed, sealed and ready to be given.
04
The papers
The invoice under the margin scheme for antiques, and, for a destination beyond the European Union, the export authorisation prepared for this reference and issued in its own name.

Two weeks from payment to parcel.

The first week belongs to the drawing: the bead chosen, measured and traced at scale against your wrist. The second belongs to the bench: gold raised, bead set, surface finished. A photograph of the finished bracelet travels ahead of the parcel.

One object · one record · one hand at a time

Made to one wrist. Issued once.

The wrist

The inner face

Your name on the record

Where it goes, and how we reach you

What follows