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Precious Belle Époque Watch Chain With Diamonds As Necklace, England Around 1900 & Later

€ 11,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Precious Belle Époque Watch Chain With Diamonds As Necklace, England Around 1900 & Later

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

High-carat gold with a fineness of 18 carats and large old Mine cut diamonds: the necklace here is made of only the best materials and feels heavy yet comfortable around the neck. The necklace began its life some 120 years ago as a watch chain for the gentleman. As its hallmarks reveal, the jewelry was made in England and probably did not initially wear diamonds. Rather, the necklace was simple, though powerful in size, making it a classic companion for the distinguished gentleman around 1900 in London. The three sparkling diamonds, so-called "Old Mine Cuts" and beautiful cushion-shaped cuts, weighing a total of approx. 1.80 ct, which today set the center of the chain with a slight distance between them in simple bezel settings, were added in later times. Watch chains for pocket watches had gone out of fashion with the invention of the wristwatch and the solid gold chain was now to begin a new life as a necklace. On this occasion, the chain was also lengthened at both ends by about 2.2 cm each. The additions fit stylistically perfectly to the historical chain. They reveal their later origin only in details, for example, in the fact that white gold is used for the settings of the diamonds, which was invented only in the 1910s. We do not know when the watch chain became a necklace. According to the shape, it might have happened in the 1980s, when heavy armored chains made of yellow gold became a big fashion. The diamonds, however, are antique stones from the time when the watch chain was created. An independent appraisal of the quality of the materials is included with the necklace, which found its way to us here in Berlin.

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High-Carat

€ 11,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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