Art Deco Platinum & Rose Diamond Winning Post Tie Pin

Good as a gift for the racing fraternity, this 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… tie pin represents the winning post and has been set with rose diamonds and has lovely millgrain detail on the platinum. This is when the edges of the metal have been worked with a knurling tool to produce tiny beads, hence the French name “Millgrain” meaning a thousand beads. It was made in the 1920s. All our tie pins come with a stopper at the end of the pin.