Opening the Jewellery Box: The Lagma
The Lagma
Pigment Of Your Imagination
The Lagma is a convertible platinum and eighteen-karat white gold necklace featuring a pair of vertical chrysocolla druzies of stunning azure, graduating to a translucent white edge. The natural jagged border of the stones have been left unpolished, and are traced by a parade of white diamonds that follow the natural outline of the stones. To create a balanced look, each chrysocolla is suspended from a white-diamond studded platinum chain, one segment slightly longer than the other, which connects to a bail via a platinum triangular shape, also encrusted with white diamonds. The pendant sits on a sixteen-inch eighteen-karat white gold chain.
The Lagma is also a study in versatile design. Each chrysocolla druzy may be removed from the pendant and attached to white diamond encrusted earwires so that they may be worn as a pair of fabulous earrings.
Blue Lagoon
The Lagma gets its name from its brilliant blue hues, so vibrant as if to tempt you to dive into the stones’ depths. The color is completely natural, a testament to the Earth’s organic color palette.
Rock Candy
Unique for their vivid color, chrysocolla is rare to find in gemstone quality. Sourced in copper mine deposits, these gems get their striking saturation from the presence of oxidized copper, similar to the origin of the Paraiba tourmaline’s coloring. Additionally, it can be difficult to find chrysocolla in a size as large as the pair featured in the Lagma.
Druzy occurs when layers of crystalized gemstone form on another stone, the matrix stone. While chrysocolla is more often cut en cabochon due to its oftentimes smaller size, cutting a gem like chrysocolla as a druzy, with its matrix stone, allows the gemstone’s natural beauty to shine.
Heart Of Gold
The name “chrysocolla” is derived from the Greek words “chrysos” for “gold” and “kola” for “glue,” because the stone resembles other materials that were used in Ancient Greece when soldering gold. Today, chrysocolla has become an investment gemstone.
Sketch of the Lagma
The Lagma, worn as earrings (left) and as a necklace (right).
