Ideas for diamond pendant design?

[mrsctobe]

Hi guys, can anyone post some inspo or suggestions for how I can improve the design on this heart pendant necklace (Elizabeth Taylor inspo)? This was the default and it looks a bit like a fleur de-lis and maybe a bit more old fashioned and less refined/elegant but im having trouble finding inspo pictures online.

ALSO, anyone have advice on design so that it doesnt flip? Im not a huge fan of bales but lmk if you think its necessary. Thank you!

 

[AprilBaby]

I like your design. I dont think it will look old fashion in person.

 

[Rfisher]

What about no ‘design’ - just plain and simple and sleek?


As for flipping - I think weight of the stone needs to be counterbalanced by the weight at the bottom of the basket.
Plus length of chain factors in there too.
I don’t know of a magic formula though.

 

[mrsctobe]

Thanks all, and any advice to prevent 1) flipping of the pendant and 2) it traveling up and down the neck?

 

[AprilBaby]

i think the only way to keep it from sliding up and down the neck is to do a bail rather than attached to the chain. I’m thinking a heart will not flip because the weight is more spread over the surface area.

 

[mrsctobe]

i think the only way to keep it from sliding up and down the neck is to do a bail rather than attached to the chain. I’m thinking a heart will not flip because the weight is more spread over the surface area.

The reason why im against a bail is because i think it changes the shape and makes it no longer look like a heart. unless you think they make bails small enough not to do that?

 

[CSpan]

I have no flipping issues with this design:

And when I don't mess with it stays pretty straight.

 

[Lookinagain]

how about making it a slide pendant instead of using a bail. That would avoid it traveling up the neck like a fixed pendant. And maybe help with flipping but I'm not sure about that for a heart shape. I find my slide pendants flip less if I put them on a bit longer chain, something that hits just below the clavicle instead of right at it. If you do a slide you could change up chains too.

 

[LLJsmom]

What about no ‘design’ - just plain and simple and sleek?


As for flipping - I think weight of the stone needs to be counterbalanced by the weight at the bottom of the basket.
Plus length of chain factors in there too.
I don’t know of a magic formula though.

This won't flip. Make it stationary.

 

[Fabtwinsmom]

While this has bails, they’re quite invisible when worn. Last year I was chatting with a SA at Tiffany and she was wearing about a 1.5 ct round diamond pendant in this design and it didn’t flip once. I even asked her about it. We were chatting for a while and she was walking all over the store, bending down to check things in the drawers, etc. I’m actually thinking of getting my pear diamond pendant which is on a slide redone to this type of setting. Mine slides around all the time and I have to keep adjusting it to the middle—so not wanting to fiddle with my pendant all day. (It doesn’t flip though, just slides back and forth.)

 

[RunningwithScissors]

I'm following this project because I adore heart pendants!