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Le Pinson, a slim champagne titanium cuff with a domed black sapphire oval in a gold bezel, standing on a blush velvet plinth in a walnut marquetry window of paper peonies and chrysanthemums

Van Roye · Genève

A jewel that knows your song.

Le Pinson: a titanium cuff with a voice hidden inside, that learns your song.

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Follow the finch

The tale of Van Roye

Il était une fois une clairière.

In an old Flemish wood, the tale goes, there was a clearing where the finches gathered. One young finch learned the song of a girl who stopped each morning to listen, and sang it back to her wherever she went.

Van Roye makes jewels that do the same. They listen, they remember, and their voice stays hidden inside the piece.

A sunlit clearing of walnut marquetry trees, paper ferns and glowing enamel leaves

Chapitre I · The Clearing

Where the light reaches the moss.

Our name comes from a place. Vinkenroye: vink, the finch; roye, the clearing. It was a Flemish family name before it was a maison, carried one day to Geneva, where the lake listens as well as any wood.

A chaffinch of paper and gold leaf on a paper peony larger than a door

Chapitre II · The Finch

A great memory in a very small bird.

The chaffinch learns its song phrase by phrase, and no two sing quite alike. We made it our emblem: one shape, two wing bars and a beak just parting, the moment before the song. We call it le pinson, and our first cuff carries its name.

Five gold wire staves sweeping across saffron paper, strung with enamel berries and paper leaves like notes, towards a cluster of coral paper peonies

Chapitre III · The Song

Everyone has a song.

It is in the way you speak, the things you return to, the small rituals of your day. A Van Roye jewel learns yours the way the finch learned the girl's, gently, in its own time.

Lake Geneva with sailboats and the fountain, held inside a porcelain teacup on a walnut table

In the clearing, scale is a matter of opinion.

Lac Léman, poured for two · Genève

Le Pinson cuff resting inside a giant blush and coral paper peony

Found, one morning, inside a paper peony.

Le Pinson in champagne titanium under a single warm light, a blush paper petal beside it

Chapitre IV · Le Pinson

Le Pinson.

An open curve of titanium, shaped to one wrist. A single oval of black sapphire. Inside it, one hairline of warm gold light: le fil d'or, the only sign that the jewel is listening.

Close on Le Pinson: the domed black sapphire in its gold bezel, a curved hairline of gold light at its lower rim, VAN ROYE engraved inside

Engraved within: VAN ROYE

Le Pinson

Champagne titanium · black sapphire

By appointment · Genève

A raised wrist in an ivory silk sleeve wearing Le Pinson, a paper chaffinch perched on the index finger
Le Pinson, Aube de Clairière. Worn close to the pulse.

Chapitre V · The Voice

La Voix Cachée.

Touch the stone and speak. The voice keeps what you tell it: a name, a word, the song you hummed last spring. When it has something for you, a hairline of gold wakes beneath the sapphire and the jewel stirs, once, against your wrist. No button, no seam, nothing to see but the jewel.

Only you will know it is there.

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How it keeps your song

Le Pinson learns slowly, the way a finch learns a song.

It listens, only to you. It remembers, only what you keep. It sings, softly, at the right moment.

A jeweller's hands with fine tweezers setting the domed black sapphire of a champagne titanium cuff, on a chamois pad at a walnut marquetry bench lit by a brass lamp

Chapitre VI · The Craft

Made by hand, then sealed like a secret.

Each cuff is shaped from titanium, its black sapphire set into the oval by hand, its edges polished until they hold the light like water. Then the voice is set inside, the way a stone is set, and the chamber is sealed.

  1. iTitanium, shaped by hand.
  2. iiSapphire, set into the oval.
  3. iiiThe chamber, sealed.

Each evening it rests in its walnut case, and wakes full of song.

Ce qui est précieux se cache.

What is precious keeps itself hidden.

Chapitre VII · Les Trois Heures

Three hours of the clearing

Dawn, moonlight and the singing sun: Le Pinson in three finishes.

Three arched walnut niches: dawn, moonlight and the singing sun, each holding Le Pinson in a different finish
Le Pinson in champagne titanium within a dawn niche of blush paper clouds

Aube de Clairière

Champagne titanium · black sapphire

The first light through the leaves, when the finches begin.

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A small walnut-panelled salon with oversized paper flowers, a tea table and an arched window onto Lake Geneva

Chapitre VIII · Le Salon

Come and be heard.

Our salon will open in Geneva's Old Town: a room of walnut and paper flowers, with the lake at the window. Until then, the maison receives you by appointment.

Le Pinson is fitted by hand, in person, in Geneva. Come for tea, sit at the table by the window, and let the jewel hear your voice for the first time.

Le Salon · Genève · By appointment

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A blank deckled invitation sealed with blush wax pressed with a finch, beside Le Pinson on folded silk, a cup of tea and paper flowers on a walnut marquetry table
An invitation, a cup of tea, and a chair by the window.

Une rencontre au Salon

Your visit to the salon

Every Le Pinson is fitted in person in Geneva. Tell us when you would like to visit, and we will set a chair by the window.

  1. iTea by the window
  2. iiYour wrist measured
  3. iiiYour first song
Which hour of the clearing?
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We use your details only to arrange your visit. Privacy

News from the clearing

A letter now and then about new songs, new pieces and the seasons of the salon.