Macri or Perlée

Macri's texture is cut into the gold; Perlée's stands up from it. Buccellati engravers draw thousands of fine parallel lines across yellow and white gold, the rigato that gives Macri its silken sheen, then set small diamonds in star-shaped mounts. Van Cleef & Arpels raises rows of polished beads instead, an ornament found on its jewels from the 1920s and given its own line in 2008. One is a field of light; the other, a string of points.