Passiflora Bangle

A line bracelet in platinum, old-European-cut diamonds cooler in daylight than you expect, never showy. Whoever made it favoured calibré-cut channel setting. It is the kind of work that took a bench jeweller a full week, and it has survived a century without a loosened stone. It had spent two generations with a Yorkshire estate before it found its way to us, passed hand to hand and never once sold until now. Where it came from, such a piece is simply 'grandmother's' — to the rest of us, it is extraordinary.