Art Deco Platinum & 18ct Gold Cufflinks With Baguette Diamonds & Black Enamel Detail

These are such a cool pair of cufflinks that are typical of the Art DecoA movement within the arts between the two Great Wars (1920-1935) across Europe and the US, characterized by its clean, geometric designs. The aesthetic was intended to celebrate an age of progress and the modernity of the machine. period and were made circa 1920. They are platinumDerives from the Spanish word ‘platina’ meaning ‘little silver’. Acknowledged since the 1900s, platinum’s durability and natural brightness has been and still is today highly treasured A metallic element prized for its rarity, whiteness, high tensile strength and insusceptibility to corrosion, platinum first became widely used in jewellery in the late ninete… fronted with 18ct75% pure gold (or 750 parts pure gold and 250 parts other metals) gold on the reverse. Square with curved edges and with a line diagonally across set with narrow baguetteFrench for “rod.” A type of rectangular step-cut comprising fourteen parallel, narrow facets running the length of the stone. Popular in mid-century eternity bands. diamonds within a millgrained edge and with a thin line of black enamelA pigmented glass-like material used in powdered form and fused onto the metal surface of a piece of jewellery. on either side.

What a great design!