One of a Kind Necklaces

Here, for a start. Every necklace on this page exists once, designed in Newport Beach around a stone or a matched suite we will never see again, and retired the day it sells. The page changes as pieces find their owners.

The American Gem Trade Association's annual design competition, among the most respected prizes in colored gemstone jewelry. Our Chroma Forme Necklace won the Spectrum Award for Excellence in Evening Wear, and it lives in this collection.

Zambian emerald, Ethiopian opal, blue labradorite, sapphire in rainbow, yellow and orange, tsavorite, kyanite, rubellite, turquoise, citrine, amethyst, topaz, yellow beryl, white jade, South Sea pearl, black onyx and hand-carved coral, set in 14K and 18K gold, most with diamonds. The list shifts as stones arrive and pieces sell.

The listing says so wherever a stone was carved by hand: the orange shell and pink coral link necklace, the largest of the labradorite butterflies, the coral pieces that pass through. Carving is named only where it happened.

Know the softest stone in it, and we will name it before you buy. Sapphire at 9 on the Mohs hardness scale and emerald at 7.5 to 8 are easy company. Opal at 5 to 6.5, labradorite at 6 to 6.5, pearl and hand-carved coral at 3 to 4 ask for ceremony: on after perfume and hairspray, off with a soft cloth, never an ultrasonic cleaner. A necklace lives a gentler life than a ring, and these stones live happily on one.