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Museum-worthy, chunky, and impossibly beautiful vintage 1980s designer costume jewellery set, consisting of a bold choker necklace and matching clip-on earrings.

Museum-worthy, chunky, and impossibly beautiful vintage 1980s designer costume jewellery set, consisting of a bold choker necklace and matching clip-on earrings.

Regular price R 1,495.00 ZAR
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ULTRA RARE COLLECTOR’S TREASURE — Vintage 1980s Art Deco Revival Guilloché Choker & Earrings Set.

A masterpiece of design, condition, craftsmanship, and sheer glamour!

Up for grabs is a museum-worthy, chunky, and impossibly beautiful vintage 1980s designer costume jewellery set, consisting of a bold choker necklace and matching clip-on earrings. Pieces of this scale, condition, and craftsmanship almost never appear on the market — this set is nothing short of a wearable Art Deco fantasy.

The entire set is crafted in a thick, luxurious layer of buttery yellow gold plating, giving it the richness and depth of high-karat gold. Each link is heavily constructed, articulated, and engineered to sit with an extravagant presence around the neck.

The design features mixed geometric panels — a dramatic interplay of:
Emerald-green guilloché enamel (the glossy, shimmering “engine-turned” enamel you usually only see on fine European jewellery),
Pavé-set Swarovski crystals packed tightly into sculptural Deco-inspired shapes,
Architectural arrow-and-shield motifs that reference the bold geometry of 1920s Parisian design houses.

The enamel alone is extraordinary: rich emerald green with a metallic guilloché glow that shifts with the light — a technique typically associated with Fabergé and early 20th-century master enamellers. Even the edges are clean and raised, framed by thick gold borders.

Every single panel is articulated, giving the necklace an elegant contouring movement that melts perfectly around the neckline.

The matching clip-on earrings mirror the same Deco shield design:
Top halves encrusted with icy pavé Swarovski crystals.
Lower halves shimmering with emerald guilloché.
All framed in thick golden borders.
Chunky, sculptural, and statement-making — yet surprisingly comfortable.

Both the necklace and the earrings are signed by the designer. The signature is present but unfortunately not fully legible — however, the style, construction, and materials strongly recall high-end designers of the era.

Measurements : The necklace with a length of 42cm and 1.4cm wide.The necklace with a weight of 112 grams.

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