your read · What's your jewellery signature?
The Heirloom
Two pieces, both with a year attached.
Everything you wear belonged to someone first, and you know who, and you can tell the story. A watch that was a grandfather's, earrings from a wedding in 1962, a ring that skipped a generation to reach you. You do not buy jewellery so much as receive it, and when you do buy, you buy as if someone will inherit it.
Your signature is memory, and it is the only kind of jewellery that actually appreciates.
What you'd actually buy
- A repair, a resize, a restringing, done properly
- One new piece made well enough to be someone's heirloom later
- A safe place for the things that cannot be replaced
- An appraisal, for the insurance, finally