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14k yellow gold heart slide pendant with ruby-colored stones and diamond accents
Gold chain with heart slide pendant, ruby-colored stones and diamond accents
14k yellow gold heart slide pendant with ruby-colored stones and diamond accents
Gold chain with heart slide pendant, ruby-colored stones and diamond accents

C. 1980 Vintage 1.25 ct. t.w. Ruby and .38 ct. t.w. Diamond Heart Slide Pendant in 14kt Yellow Gold

$4,595
C. 1980. Romanticize your jewelry box with a sentimental symbol of love. From our Estate collection, this charming slide pendant curves into…

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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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The deeper story

Visually Speaking

The double bail's two-point suspension is mechanical, not decorative. It holds the pendant's face consistently forward so that the surface detail, composition, or imagery reads exactly as the maker intended, rather than rotating freely on the chain.

Stone Story

Corundum is colorless in its pure form; ruby's red is produced by chromium substituting for aluminum in the crystal structure. The chromium absorbs certain wavelengths and transmits red, with fluorescence from the same element adding a glow that distinguishes ruby's red from other red gemstones. The same chromium chemistry produces different color outcomes in different mineral hosts: red in spinel and ruby, green in emerald, color-change in alexandrite, making it one of the most consequential trace elements in gemstone color science.

Made With Purpose

A die-stamped heart pendant has a surface uniformity that hand-formed wire does not, the edges precisely consistent, the face flat and even, the form identical across production runs; a hand-formed wire heart has slight irregularities at the join and along the curves where the wire was bent, the variation small but legible as human rather than mechanical in origin.

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