De Shervin gaurdian owl
De Shervin gaurdian owl
$16,500.00
The Owl —A DE SHERVIN Original
Every culture has its own way of looking at the owl. Across Asia, it turns toward you, not away — a keeper of wisdom, a quiet guardian, a bringer of fortune to the house it visits. That was the owl I wanted to make.
I started with the eyes, because that’s where the owl lives. Two natural emeralds, set deep and bright, so the piece would always feel like it was looking back at you, alert and a little amused. Then I built outward — pavé diamond halos circling each eye like rings of moonlight, and black enamel brows arching above them, giving the face its expression before a single feather was set.
The body took the longest to get right. I wanted the wings to feel like they were catching color the way real feathers do — so I graded natural pink sapphires from deep amber-pink at the body out to pale blush at the tips, set against diamond pavé for contrast. It’s a small detail, but it’s the one that makes the owl feel like it has light moving through it rather than just sitting on it.
The body took the longest to get right. I wanted the wings to feel like they were catching color the way real feathers do — so I graded natural pink sapphires from deep amber-pink at the body out to pale blush at the tips, set against diamond pavé for contrast. It’s a small detail, but it’s the one that makes the owl feel like it has light moving through it rather than just sitting on it.
And then the opal. I chose it natural and untreated, on purpose — no enhancement, no shortcuts. An opal like this has its own moods; it shifts color depending on how the light falls, and I wanted the owl’s chest to hold that kind of quiet, living glow at its center, like a heart that changes with the room it’s in.
The piece is designed to live two lives — a brooch by day, a pendant by night — so it can move with whoever wears it.
It took two and a half months to design and six weeks of hand fabrication to get every stone, every gradient, every expression exactly right. In the end: 18k gold, 13 grams total weight, 1.26ct of natural diamonds in D–F color and VVS/VS clarity, and 3.96ct of natural colored stones — pink sapphire and emerald — set entirely by hand.
It’s not just a brooch. It’s an owl I built to watch over whoever wears it.