Help! Ideas for pendant design

[Rosa]

Dear Pricescopers,

Once again I'm turning to this community for advice. Recently I bought a vintage bracelet and really love it. However, it was too large for my wrist so I asked the jeweler to remove one full section of the design. That section is about 1 inch long, and I would love to have him redesign it into a pendant. I am not a very creative person and am trying to come up with ideas for the redesign. It doesn't have to "match" exactly the bracelet, but I'd like it to echo the bracelet so that they look nice together, but could also be worn separately.

The only caveat is I do not want a heart design. I already have a heart pendant from my husband and would like something different. Maybe an ogee shape or something flow-y or ??? I would like to use all of the diamonds and a little some of the platinum links, and have the jeweler put it on a chain so that the pendant is fixed and doesn't slide around on the chain.

Thanks so much in advance for your input. Below should be 3 photos - one of the bracelet on the model's wrist from the listing and the other is the link that was removed, which I put on my scanner and did one photo plain and one photo next to a ruler (try as I might I could not line it up perfectly with the inch marker!)

 

[Octo2005]

Sorry I have nothing to offer for design ideas, but what a great idea to repurpose the extra section.

By the way, I love the bracelet! Such a pretty design, very blingy while still being delicate and not overpowering. What a wonderful find!

 

[rockysalamander]

I think a minor tweak would make this really nice.

Remove the area in yellow to end with the bezel diamond.
Then, add a arch over the top two bezels (red). You can have an additional bezel-set diamond at the top or simply have a bail added.



But, I kinda like this better. Remove all the areas marked in red to retain the design in the bezels. Then, add a set of arches and bezel at the bottom. Add a bail at the top.

 

[meely]

Great idea the bracelet is lovely. If it were me I would want a circular pendant as I think it would go with the theme of the bracelet better plus if it were larger it would make a better stand alone piece.
I haven't got the skills to photoshop it so here is a rough idea. Two diamonds at top would move to either side. Where the existing circles are cut off I would swirl them to join the bigger circle.

 

[tyty333]

Doesnt go with the theme of the bracelet that much but you could use the smaller cluster as a pendant then use the extra stones in the chain a-la dbty.
Or, you could use the bigger round stones to make another halo around the smaller cluster...to make a bigger pendant.

 

[lambskin]

Dangle earrings and a pendant is what I see. Take the two outer loops -3 on each side and make dangle earrings with the last loop with the diamond on the bottom. Take the two center diamonds that attach the loops and use those as the studs to attach the earrings for posts. So the earrings will have 4 diamonds total. Then take the cluster and make that into a pendant.

 

[dtnyc]

Pardon my super messy work- I would have it made into something more horizontally oriented- remove the red area and have loops w/ a bezeled stone at each end where it would attach to the chain, then have the remaining 2 bezeled stones be stationed on either side about a half inch away?

 

[Rosa]

Octo, thank you for the nice compliment, I felt the same way when I saw it. And thank you, thank you, everyone for all the ideas! I have had limited time in front of the computer today but managed to work on the suggestion from RockySalamander - the second option you said you like better. I just used MS Paint to delete sections from the bracelet and wasn't able to figure out how to add the bail in MS Paint, but I think I know what you mean - see two photos attached - one is vertical and one horizontal. I might actually try to print this out on paper and do some actual cutting and pasting. I am going to try to MS Paint the other ideas or maybe sketch on paper and post tomorrow to compare.

 

[dtnyc]

I think the horizontal would look great on a fixed chain- I think it would be very wearable.