Most jewellery boxes are designed to survive one opening. This one is designed to stay on the shelf.
There is a moment when a piece of jewellery arrives that you only get once, and most brands spend it on a printed card sleeve that goes straight in the bin.
Ours opens like something worth keeping. A hinged velvet-touch box in olive green, the mark in antique gold foil on the lid, gold stitching worked round the edge and a small gold knob on the front. Inside, cream suede, with a notch that holds the chain either side so the piece lies flat and centred instead of pooling in a corner. The extender sits in there with it.
Every gold element is foil or a tonal emboss. Nothing gold is a printed ink.
Alongside the box, an authenticity card and a cleaning cloth in the same olive, both carrying the mark. The whole thing travels inside a protective outer box, and that outer box is the only part designed to be thrown away. The green one is 45 by 45 millimetres, small enough to live in a drawer or travel in a bag, and it is the one you keep.
The authenticity card is printed on 350gsm textured stock with the mark embossed into it, and it carries the weight of the complete article. Keep it. If the piece ever comes back to us under the buy-back guarantee, the card is the quickest way for us to identify what we are looking at.