PELLUCE : Sensual and earthy smoky quartz is the focal point of these long and lean earrings from Vancox’s Pelluce collection, and they are a tall drink of water. Set in 18-karat yellow gold, a hue that is flattering to many skin tones, the earrings feature sparkling diamonds close to the ear with checkerboard-cut smoky quartz that glimmers from within. The earrings snap shut securely with lever back closures.
Although Vancox, a Brazilian jewelry house founded in 1982, has established an international reputation for crafting luscious gemstone jewelry, it isn't just the quality and attention to detail that the company strives for. Instead, it is the aesthetics. Vancox uses many different stone cuts and different gold surfaces and textures to add interest to the pieces, and makes use of pavé-set gemstones, a type of setting used for diamonds and also for colored gemstones, in which small stones are set very close together.