Dual Tone Silver and Gold Hasli Set with Red and Green Stones

The band here is a tube rather than a flat strip, which changes everything about how it reads. A tubular collar has no edges to catch light along, so instead of a bright line it shows a broad soft highlight that travels round the curve as you move. It is polished bright silver tone, and it is divided at intervals by ribbed gold-tone collars and by two flat gold plaques engraved with a leaf motif — six or seven interruptions in all, so the eye reads it as a sequence rather than as one continuous band.

Near the lower right of the curve sits a small cluster of stones, green and deep red together, set close in a gold mount. It is the only colour on the piece and it is placed off-centre, which is a deliberate and slightly unusual choice. A centred stone would have made this a pendant necklace; placed to one side it stays a band with an incident on it, and the eye keeps travelling round rather than stopping.

At the back it closes with a black braided cord finished in a full tassel. The cord slides, so the collar adjusts from close at the throat to an inch or two lower, and the tassel hangs down the back of the neck — which is part of the design rather than a loose end. With the hair up it is visible and intended to be.

Matching stud earrings come with the set. They are round, with a ten-pointed gold star or flower worked across the face, a dark red stone at the centre and a fine beaded silver rim, so they carry both metal tones and the red from the necklace's stone cluster at a size that sits flat on the lobe.

Dual-tone pieces like this exist because two platings on one object is genuinely harder than one — each has to be masked off while the other is applied — and the reward is that the eye separates the gold elements from the silver before it has read a single stone. On a piece whose structure is this simple, that separation is what provides the interest.

Wear it with a plain neckline in black, cream, mustard or deep green. Because it carries both metal tones it will sit with whatever you already wear on your hands or ears, which makes it easier to place than a single-tone piece.

One thing worth knowing about a bright silver-tone finish, as opposed to an oxidised one. Oxidised work hides marks — the whole surface is already darkened and broken up, so a scratch disappears into it. A bright polished tube does the opposite: it is a mirror, and it shows every mark it collects. That is not a reason to avoid it, but it is a reason to keep this piece away from loose change, keys and other jewellery in a bag, and to wipe it with a dry soft cloth after wearing rather than letting skin oils sit on it overnight.

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About the Dual-Tone Finish

Dual-tone means two platings on one piece — a bright silver tone and a warm gold tone, applied to different parts of the same design so each section reads separately. It is harder than a single finish because the two have to be masked off from one another, and it is why these pieces show their detail so clearly: the eye separates the gold elements from the silver ones before it has read a single stone. The base metal underneath is brass, so this is plating rather than solid gold or silver.

Care

Put this on after perfume, hairspray and hand cream, and take it off before washing, swimming or sleeping. Wipe with a dry soft cloth and use a dry soft brush around the stone settings and between any pearls, where a cloth cannot reach. Store it in a zip-lock pouch — which is what the supplier themselves advise, and the single most effective thing for a plated piece, because it keeps humid air off the metal. Never use silver polish, dip cleaners or an ultrasonic cleaner.