The Alpine Bracelet

Look closely and the gate bracelet gives itself away as Retro: large citrines, the honey gold more honest than anything cut today, held by bold sculpted volume. The detail is built up bead by bead, a technique half-lost by the time this was made. A dealer we trust brought it down from an Amsterdam family, kept in a bank drawer far longer than it was ever worn. You can tell it was worn, not kept — the highest thing we can say of a piece.