A long double gold-tone chain set with pink beads and small white beads, ending in two round medallions with large colourless stones and a tassel of pink beaded strands tipped with white drops, laid on cream satin beside a matching round ring; a green-stone necklace lies partly in frame at the top left.

Necklaces

Pink Bead Tassel Necklace

₹22,999

A double gold-tone chain strung with pink and white beads drops to two stone-set medallions and a tassel of beaded strands. The matching studs carry the same colourless centre stone inside a ring of pink beads.

Metal
Argentium 96096% silver. Sterling silver is 92.5%.
Finish
18k gold vermeilRe-coated by the house for life.
Stones
Pink gemstone, Colourless stone
Mark
Argentium-stamped.
Skin
Designed nickel-free, for sensitive skin.
Availability
Made to order

Delivered worldwide. Everything leaves the bench through nine inspections.

The material

Argentium 960

96% silver

Sterling silver is 92.5%.

Argentium is a modern silver alloy: germanium in place of part of the copper that sterling uses. That substitution is the whole of the difference, and it is decided at the alloy rather than applied to the surface afterwards.

The alloy
Germanium in place of part of the copper.
The source
A UK supplier, and alloys in development with them.
The mark
Stamped Argentium on everything made in it.