Three-Tone Twisted Sautoir

Composed in a twisted stitch or torsade-like link, it has exactly the fluidity and light-play that make long gold chains so seductive on the body: the links catch and release light as they move, while the interplay of three gold tones gives the surface a constantly shifting warmth. At 80 cm open length, it has the elegant fall of a true sautoir rather than a standard neck chain, and at 20.62 grams it carries enough substance to feel serious without losing suppleness.

The word sautoir carries a very specific jewellery history — the plunging necklines of the 1920s encouraged long pendants and other elongated necklaces, and the sautoir was especially fashionable in that decade. This example is a gold-chain interpretation: it inherits the same long, vertical elegance. The three-gold palette also belongs to a broader modern vocabulary — yellow, white and rose gold in combination has been a signature of some of the great houses for a century. Deceptively simple in a tray; fully alive once on the body.