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Vintage 14kt yellow gold puffed heart pendant necklace with diamond accents
14kt yellow gold puffed heart pendant necklace with fine chain and diamond heart
Vintage 14kt yellow gold puffed heart pendant necklace with diamond accents
14kt yellow gold puffed heart pendant necklace with fine chain and diamond heart

C. 1980 Vintage .22 ct. t.w. Diamond Puffed Heart Pendant Necklace in 14kt Yellow Gold. 18"

$3,795
C. 1980. Lean into the power of love with this exceptional heirloom. From our Estate collection, a classic puffed heart pendant is striped w…

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All weights and measurements are approximate. Most gemstones are treated to enhance their beauty and may require special care.

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Built For Ease

The figure-8 safety's one functional limitation is also its defining feature: an additional step to open that prevents the same accidental disengagement it was designed to address. A secondary closure that released as easily as the primary mechanism would defeat its own purpose.

Made With Purpose

Heart pendant fabrication methods correspond to distinct periods and production contexts in jewelry history: hand-forming from sheet and wire the primary technique through most of the pre-industrial period, die-stamping developing through the 19th century as industrial production made volume manufacture viable, casting in lost-wax and other methods allowing the three-dimensional heart forms that became commercially standard through the 20th century, the methods coexisting in contemporary production with each suited to different price points and design intentions.

Style Notes

Wearing a clasp at center front rather than the nape is a styling technique with historical precedent in European jewelry, where ornate closures were designed to be seen rather than hidden. Ornate or gemstone-set box clasps worn this way transform the closure from a functional element into a design statement, adding a focal accent at the center neckline.

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