Wearing the Same Gold Chain for Ten Years

The best jewellery is the kind you forget you are wearing until somebody compliments it.

One chain, every day

There is a quiet kind of luxury in wearing the same gold chain for ten years. It moves with you through everything — the shower, the sea, the wedding, the funeral.

Real gold, thin enough to ignore

We like a chain fine enough that it disappears against the skin. Real gold, because it gets more beautiful the longer you wear it.

A little weight

A small pendant — a coin, a saint, a single freshwater pearl — gives the chain something to do.

The day you lose it

You will lose it eventually. You will be heartbroken for a week. Then you will buy another, almost the same, and start again.