Eytan Brandes Necklaces

This one-of-kind new necklace from Eytan Brandes features a warm palette and plenty of versatility. The big news here is unakite, which is a rock, not a mineral. It's what happens ...

This lovely, sexy one-of-a-kind choker by Eytan Brandes features a diamond bar pin that Eytan converted to a pendant centerpiece for two strands of small, super-lustrous silver baroq...

This outrageous, one-of-a-kind necklace by Eytan Brandes evolved from the cap -- a plain and simple 14 karat gold dome that started out in life as the face of a groovy (but kinda dum...

We acquired this honeybee plus eight other nephrite amulets in 2020. In order to better understand our acquisition, we had the lot verbally appraised by David Ha of Ha Dynasty Jewelry...

Here's something you're not going to see on every other gal in town! This necklace is composed of repurposed and new elements and it's truly one-of-a-kind. The frog with his rando ...

This sparkling, one-of-a-kind choker necklace features a 0.75 carat diamond bar mounted on a square tube, all in 14 karat gold. Eytan Brandes made this pendant from "spare parts." ...

Eytan Brandes' big snake pendant, heavily modified from a mid-century costume jewelry brooch, is a nice bit of drama for your neckline -- ever...

This long, eye-catching pendant features two birds, one diving downward and the other soaring upward. They were originally part of a rose and yellow gold brooch, and when we say "pa...

We love rough sapphires and use them frequently; their deep color, inclusions, streaks and other irregularities create beautiful and distinctive natura...

This new pendant by Eytan Brandes is one-of-a-kind but features some of his tried-and-true design staples: the little triangle drop, the freeform shape, the burnished (flush-set) st...

Eytan Brandes turned an interesting turquoise cameo into a bold, one-of-a-kind pendant with a 14 karat gold unstructured four-prong frame cast from a wax mold he sculpted by hand, ju...

Here's a one-of-a-kind necklace assembled by Eytan Brandes featuring a distinctive cross, with full British hallmarks that date it all the way back to 1905/1906. We couldn't find ...

This sexy, one-of-a-kind necklace was assembled by Eytan Brandes using old and new components. The sneaky little fox was the top of an old stickpin, circa 1900. He's finely detaile...

Versatile and unique, this set of three pieces can be worn together or separately. The light orange carnelian fob is capped with a textured 18 karat gold cap, hand-made in our sho...

Eytan Brandes cast an old bronze seal in 14 karat yellow gold and converted it to a pendant, holding an oval cabochon of natural stormy blue aquamarine. It hangs on a shimmery neckl...

This one-of-a-kind pendant by Eytan Brandes features two incredible gemstones from Australia. The opal is from our good friends at Broken River Mining, a family-run operation with t...

This spectacular, one-of-a-kind necklace by Eytan Brandes features a string of graduated, multicolored baroque Tahitian pearls with a large and abstract 14K gold centerpiece set with...

Eytan's design of cascading peperomia leaves is one he's used for many different pieces, but each piece is unique. This time, he's made it into a pendant with a faceted opal bead drop to serve as the centerpiece on a station necklace of black diamond and opal beads. The opals are from Ethiopia and are predominantly golden orange with flashes of green and yellow. There are 18 opals...

This ridiculously large smoky quartz came into the shop inside of a customer's very heavy, poorly conceived 1970's gold pendant. The customer wanted the gold value of the pendant ap...

What to do with a little 14 karat frog that's been hopping around the store for so long no one remembers where he came from? Answer? Attach him to the kind of gemstone a frog would love: a big drop-shaped faceted cabochon of moss agate. This is a type of quartz with a white or clear body color, but shot through with fern-link green inclusions (mostly manganese and something called hornblende, the description of which is so geoscience-y that we just don't want to go there). The chubby little frog has diamond eyes (about 0.01 carats each) and that sweetly contented expression that makes frogs so lovable, despite the fact they live in swamps and don't really seem to be all that sociable toward humans. We can dream, can't we? The stone is wrapped in a 14 karat gold frame made from a hand-sculpted wax mold by Eytan Brandes. The bale is made from hand-pulled 14 karat gold wire that's been artfully banged about to match the gold frame. It's big enough to accommodate most chain hardware.. The pearl, gold and moss agate necklace...

Edison pearls, a freshwater pearl variety that has only been around for a few years. are the product of several years' research by Grace Pearls, located in China. Borrowing from t...

This cameo was originally a brooch/pendant -- one of many Eytan accumulated in his shop over the years. Carved from cornelian shell, we're pretty sure the subject is a Bacchante -- ...

This extraordinary one-of-a-kind pendant by Eytan Brandes shows off a large baroque Tahitian pearl with a clip-on enhancer bale, perfect for pairing with a nice pearl strand. In fac...

This lovely necklace is assembled from an antique platinum chain plus some very nice "spare parts" made in our shop by Eytan Brandes: > The four exquisite scroll links are copied from an antique muff...

We bought these gorgeous, genuine Tahitian pearls at a trade show in 2023. These are slightly graduated (11mm to just under 12mm) lustrous, multi-colored off-round baroques, mostly ...

This lustrous white South Sea baroque pearl is set in a Byzantine-flavored, satiny 18 karat yellow gold two-part pedant handmade in our shop by Eytan Brandes. The pearl has a graceful egg shape with a pronounced ridge at the top, mostly obscured by the "petals" of the cap. The cap is linked to a nicely oversized bale that will accommodate just about any chain or cord. We think it looks great with the rhodolite necklace...

Names will never hurt you and neither will this necklace. Fifty-five carats of rough black diamonds are interspersed with freshwater pearls to cre...

Thimbles, when they're interesting, make great pendants when used as cappers for a nice big cabochon or pearl. Actually making this kind of pendant isn't for the faint of heart, how...

Eytan made a pendant like this in 2020 using some stray 18k discs and tubes that he had acquired so long ago he doesn't remember where they came from. That pendant sold immediately, but it was basically a one-off since he had 15 stray discs and 14 stray tubes and the pendant used up all of them. But Eytan has been making jewelry for almost fifty years and in fifty years, things get moved around, stuff gets separated, boxes get shoved here, envelopes get shoved there, the moon waxes and wanes, and before you know it, your shop is like an advent calendar...

Eytan Brandes has baked up a chocolate lover's dream: Nearly 12 carats of shimmery brown sapphire set in a halo of sparkling white diamonds suspended on a string of tiny faceted iro...

This funky, one-of-a-kind pendant features an unusual and very baroque green Tahitian pearl. Eytan Brandes played up the pearl's unique silhouette with vintage components -- rose ...

Snakes upstairs and snakes downstairs, with a big, beautiful Tahitian pearl in the middle: this one-of-a-kind pendant from Eytan Brandes celebrates all things slithery. Snake North is one of Eytan's original designs, usually seen as earrings, but this wee snake is acting as the link between the pendant's bale and the pearl cap. He's crowned with a faceted emerald (recycled from an old brooch) and he's 18 karat gold. Snake South is actually the head of an antique hatpin...

Eytan Brandes cast one of his old silver coins in 22 karat gold. It shows a beardless youth, possibly an early emperor (most of them wore beards after 117AD), as suggested by the diadem tied at the back of his neck. No clue about the image on the back. With the lettering oriented north (and upside down), you can maybe see the neck of a horned animal, but that might just be us seeing things in a Rorschach test. To frame this little homage to ancient commerce, Eytan crafted a platinum frame with four prongs on each side. The pyrite chain, which we made specifically for this pendant, has a 14 karat white gold lobster closure.* Weights & Measurements: Coin diameter: 17mm Coin thickness: varies from 1.7mm to 2.2mm Pendant total length (including top loop & bale): 32mm (1-1/4") Pendant width: 20.5mm Chain length: 16" Chain (i.e. bead) thickness: 3mm Coin weight...

This 18 karat gold tassel was one of two attached to an extremely damaged, early 20th Century chatelaine that came into our shop at least 20 years ago as scrap-in-trade. We melted m...

Eytan Brandes used the head of an old stickpin to create the bale for this unique pearl pendant. The bale mirrors the pearl's goofy center "porthole," which, combined with it's slightly flattened sides, reminds us of an old-fashioned diving bell...

This smart, sinewy new pendant by Eytan Brandes is actually a very clever re-use of a vintage (circa 1960's) diamond leaf brooch. The "spike" was the center vein of the leaf, but he...

This tiny window looks out on a fiery orange sun rising between two mountains in a one-of-a-kind pendant designed by Eytan Brandes. The 0.11 carat "sun" is an orange sapphire, very clean and bright, bezel-set between the crest of the two diamond "mountains." The mountains are all pave-set with round, high-quality white and brown diamonds. The shadow mountain...

Our favorite type of pearl in one of our favorite pendant designs. This is a gorgeous, drop-shaped Tahitian cultured pearl measuring 14mm wide (and over 18mm long), purchased from...

This original design by Eytan Brandes is one of his evergreens. He's used this lacy floral (but not precious or fussy) rondelle as a pendant, as a chain link, and as earrings. Th...

Mechanical watch movements are amazing. Every jeweler has a zillion of them, since the cases are frequently melted for their metal value. Eytan Brandes has always appreciated these tiny marvels and has made a few of them into pendants, but he likes them to be a bit stealthy -- not scream, "HEY! I'm watch guts!" His latest pendant, in 14 karat yellow gold, is a perfect example -- with the border of raised dots -- Eytan's "caviar" pattern -- blends interestingly into the busy landscape of a mechanical watch movement, with its red jewels and steel wheels. This particular movement isn't very old -- it was probably made in the 1990s or thereabouts by Gotham Watch...

Eytan Brandes used actual leaves to make the wax molds for this gorgeous and unique 18 karat gold pendant, so each leaf is whisper-thin and super-lightweight....

Two fat little mice in 14 karat yellow gold with silver-blue Tahitian pearl bodies hang happily by their tails from a string of sparkling aquamarine beads. These mice are based on an antique silver charm that we've had in the store for a while. The silver version had a rock crystal bead for a body and no tail, but we thought he would be a great delivery system for pearls. The pearls are smallish Tahitians and in an unusual silver-blue shade you'd more likely associate with Akoya pearls. They're from our trusted pearl dealer, George Hajjar of Seven Seas Pearls with offices in Tokyo and Los Angeles. Mr. Hajjar deals only with saltwater pearls (Akoya, South Sea and Tahitian), and he only deals directly with the pearl farms, so we always know we're getting the real deal. The pearls are baroque in shape and measure 9mm and 11.3mm in diameter. They both show great color and luster, plus some natural flaws -- a few dents, lumps and bumps and a circle (on the larger pearl) but no off-color pits or dull spots. Their long wire tails form loops for hanging from a chain or cord. We think they look great with the aquamarine bead chain...

We found the perfect cap for this adorably dimpled baroque south sea pearl: the top of a vintage articulated clown pendant! We had this pendant for a while, but it's frankly sort of creepy...

Eytan's latest hamsa is a redo of an earlier design. We call this design his Melee Muncher because it's the perfect platform for recycled diamonds -- stones extracted from jewelry that customers have brought in for melt value. These diamonds range in color and clarity and are generally fairly pedestrian -- in the SI range with a couple of VS2's -- but they're perfect for this pendant because, with the black background and the tight pavé, they can't help but pop. We love the idea of putting these stones to good use, and we love the way the mix of clarities and colors looks in such a tight formation. Two of the diamonds are single cuts and at least two are transitional (high crowns and tiny tables). The rest are full cuts. They range in size from 1mm to 2.5mm; the total carat weight for all 25 diamonds of 0.65 carats. The pendant is 14 karat rose gold with a satiny finish and a nice big top ring that will accommodate lots of different chain options, but we like our new garnet and rough diamond bead strand. This chain continues the recycling theme, using up 6...

This necklace features one of Eytan Brandes' signature designs - a dancer spinning in her own web of movement. This version includes a little extra -- a barqoue freshwater pearl "cloud" that our dancing dervish seems to be plucking out of the air. The pendant is meticulously set with 51 tiny round diamonds in various sizes up to 1.3mm; Eytan wanted them to look like they just naturally collected into little pools of light. These diamonds are all natural (i.e., earth-mined) and untreated stones with a total diamond weight of 0.34 carats. Our supplier rated this parcel G-H color and high SI or low VS clarity. The pearl is a freshwater baroque, glossy white and chosen specifically for its shape: our dancer appears is pressing her cloud at both ends, so we wanted a pearl that appeared to be a bit smooshed-looking -- like a pillow being caught between two hands. The chain* is cut from a gorgeous vintage 18 karat gold chain that we acquired at a vintage jewelry show...

This is the second time we've cast this pendant -- an original design by Eytan Brandes. It depicts two amorous snakes slithering together to form a heart while they chomp happily on...

Strung on copper-colored silk and knotted like a string of pearls, these graduated round milky-soft aquamarine beads would be beautiful enough on their own, but we've given them an ...

This extraordinary, one-of-a-kind new necklace by Eytan Brandes features five beautiful but distinctly different slices of natural tourmaline, one of Eytan's favorite gemstones. The...

Eytan Brandes made the ultimate one-of-a-kind statement pendant using a traditional ladies diamond brooch and a gorgeous white South Sea pearl. The standout feature of this pendan...

Eytan Brandes' sexy, sleek sideways heart pendant in high-polish 14 karat white gold features two panels of extremely small, neatly set natural white (untreated, earth-mined) diamond...

This one-of-a-kind showstopper by Eytan Brandes features two gorgeous and lively Australian boulder opals framed in gold and accented with natural brown diamonds. The opals are from...

Eytan Brandes made this flattering, versatile and light-loving pendant to show off a bright and clean earth-mined 0.60 carat pear-shaped white diamond. Eytan rates the stone H color...

A vividly green 1/2 carat peridot sits in a clean little pronged basket mounted at the center of this inverted oval pendant by Eytan Brandes. The resemblance to a lowercase Greek theta makes this the perfect signature piece for mathematicians, hedge fund...

This could be interpreted as an homage to America's exploding cardboard box consumption, up by at least 9% due to Covid and its feeder effect on-line shopping. Or it could just be...

This one-of-a-kind choker features a great new bale design by Eytan Brandes. Here, his box bale shares the stage with a knockout boulder opal from Broken River Mining...

This one-of-a-kind pendant by Eytan Brandes features a freeform slice of gold, set with a diamond, over a freeform slice of goshenite. Goshenite is a variety of beryl -- basically aquamarine without color. We acquired a little pile of this stuff -- the palest of pale blue and oddly cut -- and were at a loss as to what to do with it until Eytan hit on the idea of setting one of them in a bezel with an oxidized (blackened) inside pan. We love the end result. The swirly pattern of the oxidization plus the faceting plus the minute coloration of the stone combine to give this humble gem a truly unique, shimmery look -- worthy, even, of a hearty "Gosh!" (if anyone actually said "gosh" anymore...) By contrast, the diamond, bezel-set to float in the opening of Eytan's 18 karat gold shard, involves absolutely no hanky-panky. It's an earth-mined, natural and untreated stone weighing 0.04 carats -- a small but high quality sparkler (Eytan rates it G-H color and VS2 clarity). The hand-wrought pulled wire bale is roughly oval-shaped and oversized, since Eytan envisioned his pendant would be paired with beads (which generally require a bigger bale than a chain), but removable. We think our choker-length strand of faceted but rough sapphire...

Eytan Brandes cast little quatrefoils from a very old station chain brought in by a customer many years ago. Her chain was pot metal, and in terrible condition, but had a lot of sen...

This fabulous and absolutely one-of-a-kind pendant is an assembled piece showcasing some sort of winged insect (a mayfly?) in 14 karat rose gold with bright ruby eyes and white gold wings set with six very old diamonds. Eytan set this glamorous pest on a faceted but entirely asymmetric piece of blue lace agate. For the bale, he used a gorgeous columnar hinged rose gold bale from an old pocket watch...

This openwork, vintage-inspired disc charm is an Eytan Brandes evergreen. He's used it in earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Here is just about the simplest manifestation: just th...

Eytan Brandes modeled this pendant from an old sterling silver bracelet link. It looks oodles better as a pendant and in 18 karat yellow gold. It's perfect for an Aries, or for som...