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Pressed Time Cufflinks
The mechanics of an era, worn at the wrist
Time
Time Band
A movement, worn around the finger
An 18k white gold band hand-engraved all around with mechanical motifs — gears, numerals, clock hands — set with two flush brilliant diamonds
Materials
- 18k White Gold
Slim band, high-polish background with hand-engraved mechanical relief
- Brilliant-Cut Diamonds
2 stones, flush-set into the band face, approx. 0.06ct each, VS clarity
Techniques
Hand EngravingFlush SettingHigh Polish
Dimensions
- band Width3mm
- band Thickness1.8mm
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The band is slim — barely three millimetres wide — but its outer face carries a full circumference of engraved mechanical life: gear teeth, a clock numeral, arrow-tipped hands, a balance wheel spiral, scrollwork borrowed from the interior of a movement. The motifs wrap continuously, so the ring reads differently at every angle of rotation.
Two brilliant-cut diamonds are set flush into the face, sitting level with the engraved surface the way stones sit in antique pavé — not proud of the metal, but part of it. The white gold ground makes the engravings read in shadow and light rather than color, giving the mechanical imagery a graphic quality closer to a technical drawing than a decorative motif.
It is the same vocabulary as the Pressed Time Cufflinks — mechanical fragments transferred to metal — but here it wraps around the finger rather than sitting on a wrist. The wearer carries a piece of a movement.
The Story
The engraving was laid out by hand before cutting — the challenge was distributing the motifs around a 3mm band so that no element felt crowded and the composition read as continuous rather than repeating. The diamond positions were fixed first, since they anchor the eye; the engraving was arranged around them rather than the other way around.
