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A private page, kept in your name. As the piece moves from the first conversation to your hand, every step — every brief, every render, every commitment, every photograph from the bench — is written here, in the order it happens. By my own hand.

The Vida Valiente Brooch

For Hayes
Drumwright

Your winery's mark, struck in gold and diamond, to be worn over the heart.

This piece is a thank-you. You and the winery gave Francisca and me a kind of grace I wanted to answer in metal rather than words — so I took the mark of Vida Valiente, the one you have already given a brave life to, and built it small enough to wear and quiet enough not to argue with a man who wears no jewellery. It sits on the chest, close to the heart, on whatever blazer you reach for. I am keeping its record here, the way I keep every piece: one story, in order.

— RAHUL

The Journey · at a glance

Where the piece stands today

From the first conversation to the morning your piece arrives in your hand.

Consultation Completed · 6 Sept 2025
Designing Completed · 14 Sept 2025
Design Finalized To Come· 26 Sept 2025
Crafting Began Completed · 2 Oct 2025
Heirloom Ready Completed · 8 Nov 2025
Coming to your home Completed · 15 Nov 2025

The Key

Completed

In Progress

To Come

Blocked

Phase 0 · The Debt

Ceremony · I 12 · September · 2025

The Debt

A grace I wanted to answer in metal.

Some kindnesses can't be returned in kind. You and the winery extended one to Francisca and me, and the wish to answer it sat with me until I knew the form: not a gift you would have to find a place for, but your own mark, made wearable. A grounded man wears no jewellery — so the piece had to be small, quiet, and already his. This is the record of building it.

Settled12 September 2025

Phase I · The Requirements

Ceremony · II 12 · September · 2025

The Brief

What we agreed, in your name. The brief is set.

Piece

Brooch, the Vida Valiente mark

Metal

18K yellow gold

Stones

Two custom trillion-cut diamonds

Setting

Prong-set, at the two crowns of the mark

Form

The winery's rayed insignia, rendered in full relief

Fitting

Pin-and-catch, for the blazer lapel

Finish

High-polish yellow gold

Mark

RALJE cipher, struck on the reverse

Wear

Over the heart

For

Hayes Drumwright, of Vida Valiente

Brief settled12 September 2025

Phase II · The Design

The Vision · IV 25 · October · 2025

The Vision

One mark, lit as the gold will wear.

The vida valiente logo. A sign of the long history of this great winery. Nothing could have been a better inspiration than this logo. Rahul decides to replicate this logo into a brooch that will live on it's founder's heart, whenever wanted!

Settled26 September 2025

The Vision · IV 30 · September · 2025

The Brooch

Vida Valiente Logo, Imagined in Gold

Delivered30 September 2025

Phase III · The Craft

The Vision · IV 25 · October · 2025

The Craft

Cast, set, marked.

The silence phase. The rays were brought up in 18K yellow gold and given their full relief; the two trillions were prong-set at the crowns; the pin-and-catch was fitted to hold on a working lapel and open only when asked. Then the back was struck with the Mark. What the winery knows as a logo now holds a setting and a weight.