Our artisans engrave the surface of precious metals by hand etching deep cuts with a burin tool. This surface finishing permits light to penetrate and illuminate the gold, radiating a warm glow across each piece. The burin consists of a rounded handle shaped like a mushroom, and a tempered steel shaft, coming from the handle at an angle, and ending in a very sharp cutting face. Burins typically have a square or lozenge shape face, though several other types are used.
CLASSIC HAND-ENGRAVING
The traditional hand engraving illuminates the gold, which shimmer like soft silk.
The etched surfaces enhance and amplify the natural brightness of diamonds.
ASYMMETRICAL HAND-ENGRAVING
The artisans engrave the jewel’s surface asymmetrically to replicate the irregular inclusions within each rutilated quartz, a rare mineral with fine, irregular stripes of golden brown, copper-red, silver, or grey.
“FRAGLIA VENEZIA” HAND-ENGRAVING
The manual hand-engraving using the burin, named by Nanis as a tribute to our history as “FRAGLIA VENEZIA” enhances the silky effect of the traditional hand engraving through specific burin hits able to capture the light..