18K Bat Ring

From The Golden Menagerie.

Handcrafted in Florence by master goldsmiths, the 18K Bat Ring is a jeweled study in duality, where beauty meets fear and myth meets nature. Centered on a luminous chrome tourmaline fruit (13.43 ct), framed by Paraíba tourmaline (1.024 ct) and orange sapphire (0.08 ct), the ring captures a fruit bat mid-feast, its wings unfurled in sculpted gold.

Long cast as a creature of darkness, the bat is in truth a guardian of light, vital to rainforests for pollination and seed dispersal, and essential to the balance of the natural world. This piece reclaims its story, transforming a misunderstood animal into a talisman of renewal and ecological harmony.

Emerging from The Big Game chapter of The Golden Menagerie, a collection honoring endangered, mythologized, and misunderstood beings, the Bat Ring unites conservation with craftsmanship. It is both a jewel and a reminder that what we fear may, in time, prove to be what sustains us.

• 18K gold
• Chrome Tourmaline 13.43ct
  
• Paraiba Tourmaline 1.024ct
  
• Orange Sapphire 0.08ct
  
• Italy