Halo Nocturne
From €2,650
Atelier · Antwerp · est. 2009
Stones chosen first, settings drawn around them
Most jewellery is designed and then fitted with whatever stone matches the drawing. We work the other way round, which is slower and produces rings that look like the stone was always meant to be there.
Every piece leaves this bench under one pair of hands, from wax to final polish.
There are four of us. Nothing is sent out for setting, nothing is finished by a subcontractor, and the person who casts a ring is the person who sets it.
Gold and platinum · commissions 8–10 weeks · Antwerp
At the bench now
Four house collections
Made to order in your size and metal. Prices start where the smallest stone in that collection starts.
Rivière
From €3,400
Sable
From €1,850
Comète
From €2,200
Commissions
Where a commission actually begins
Not with a drawing. With a conversation about how the ring will be worn, by which hand, next to what else, and what the budget is — because budget decides the stone, and the stone decides the design.
- First conversation One hour, atelier or video
- Drawings Hand sketch then CAD, two revisions
- Stone viewing Loose, in daylight, before commitment
- Bench time Four weeks, not compressible
Coloured stones
Spinel, moonstone and the tones that never photograph well
Grey spinel, blue-sheen moonstone and peach sapphire look ordinary on a screen and extraordinary on a hand. These are the stones we ask people to come and see.
Grey spinel solitaire
From €2,900
Moonstone cabochon
From €1,450
Peach sapphire halo
From €3,100
Tourmaline three stone
From €2,400
The bench
Four weeks of hand work behind every commission
Casting takes a day. What takes four weeks is everything after it: cleaning up the cast, cutting seats for each stone individually, setting under magnification, and finishing a surface that will be looked at closely for the next fifty years.
- Setting By hand, under magnification
- Seats Cut individually, never pre-made
- Finishing Hand polish or hand-worked sand finish
- Hallmarking Belgian assay, on every piece
Ways in
Three ways to work with the atelier
Buy from a collection
Made to order in your size and metal, four to five weeks. The fastest route and the least expensive.
Collections
Commission a piece
Drawn from scratch around a stone. Eight to ten weeks, two prototype drawings, one signed quotation.
Commissioning
Remake what you own
Inherited stones reset into something wearable. We keep the original setting for you either way.
Care and service
Visiting
The atelier is one street back from the Meir
Schuttershofstraat 42, above a bookbinder. Appointments Tuesday to Saturday; the bench is visible from the room we sit in, which is deliberate.
Appointments and address