Three dense rows of round purple aurora borealis rhinestones catch light from every angle, shifting between deep violet, blue, and iridescent rainbow depending on how they're worn. The AB coating — a mid-century innovation popularized by Swarovski in the late 1950s — became a staple of costume jewelry through the 1960s and 70s, lending even modestly priced pieces an almost otherworldly luminosity. Set in a gunmetal-tone cup chain construction, the contrast between the dark setting and the electric purple stones is striking and modern-feeling. Wears equally well dressed up or stacked casually.
Materials: Gunmetal-tone base metal, purple aurora borealis glass rhinestones, elastic
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Collected by Mineral and Matter