N°42 Mother's Day 2025 Special Set

Reef After Dark – Jewellery That Lives Where the Light Doesn’t

This set is a love letter to the hidden half of the reef—the cryptic zones, caves, crevices, and drop-off shadows that only come alive after sunset. Where the colours are subdued, the textures get more tactile, and life adapts with striking subtlety. As a diver, you know that just because the light fades, the action doesn’t stop. This set channels that energy—the elegant, volcanic quiet of a reef at night.

The necklace is built like a reef slope cut into basalt: dark, matte, and flecked with geological storylines. Lava rock and jet-black Onyx, Spinel, Tourmaline & Agates anchor the design in weight and form—like the base of a coral bommie that’s seen millennia of encrustation and decay.

But it’s the pendant that steals your attention: stunning calcareous German Solnhofen dendrites . These are actually not fossils- no matter how much your brain tells you that you are seeing fossilised plants. These are 60- 140 million year old chemical “paintings” created through iron (brown) and manganese oxide (black) rich waters crystallising out in microscopic cracks in the limestone. So extraordinary! Jurassic painting jewellery anyone? A biological archive suspended in warm browns and mustard ochres. Paired with slivers of gold-toned and silver dangles, the piece feels like twilight on the reef when everything glints once before going still.

As for the earrings, you have 3 pairs to choose from, depending on your mood:

• The arched gold-and-coral fossil pair (left) are warm-toned, geometric, and subtly luminous—like brittle stars wrapping around ledges or sponges tucked into overhangs (6.7cm long).
• The clean-cut rectangle pair (right) are more minimalist but no less rooted in story (4.3cm long). They feel like lab labels on specimen trays—precise, deliberate, elegant in restraint.
• The black and gold drop pair (top) are cave dwellers—those rare, glinting organisms you only notice with a torch beam. They nod to the richness in what’s not immediately seen.

This set is for women who are drawn to the depths—those who understand the reef isn’t just a colourful postcard, it’s a living stratigraphy of resilience and decay. It’s for the kind of diver who peers into crevices, who lingers at dusk, who doesn’t mind the dark—because that’s where the most interesting things happen.