The Mokoro Ring – Veil

Early morning on the Okavango, a layer of mist sits low over the channels. The water goes quiet and colorless, the banks lose their edges, and a mokoro crossing through it shows as a shape before it shows as a boat.

That is this ring. A single dusky marquise, cut to the long tapered line of a hull, set into a surface of blackened silver broken into a fine web the way dry ground cracks. Around it, a clean gold frame and a halo of white topaz, diamond cut so each one holds a point of light.

The piece works on three surfaces against each other: the dark textured ground, the gold that lifts off it, and the small stones that ring the whole thing. The oxidation sits inside the recesses rather than over the top, so the shadow is in the metal and will not rub away into brightness.

It is the most worked ring in the chapter and the only one where the boat is held rather than laid bare. The face sits wide across the finger at under five millimeters deep, so there is real presence here without anything standing up off the hand. Just over four grams.

Sizes 5 to 12. If your size is not in stock, we will make it for you and ship it in about four weeks.