Our story
An island.
A myth.
A material.
Before becoming jewellery,
ARGYRE is a legend.
At the edge
of the known world.
Ancient geographical accounts tell of two distant islands: Chryse and Argyre. Tradition places them in the Indian Ocean and attributes extraordinary riches to them. One was said to have soil of gold. The other, soil of silver.
Pliny the Elder recounts the story with scepticism. Centuries later, in the early Middle Ages, Isidore of Seville passes it on. Somewhere between geography and imagination, these lands become a promise of light and material.
ARGYRE takes its name from this island of silver. What stays with us is a fascination with material: its lustre, its nuances, and all that a simple reflection can evoke.
Chrysé
The island of gold.
The warmth of a gleam.
Argyré
The island of silver.
Light in its rawest form.
From story to jewellery
Imagination
takes form.
From an imagined island to a piece of jewellery you wear, material is the connection. We focus on the choice of steels, the feel of each surface, and the way every finish catches the light.
We look for clean lines, balanced proportions, and details revealed up close. Understated jewellery whose character emerges in a curve, a texture, or a glint of light.
The legend inspires our jewellery. By wearing it every day, you give it a story of your own.
Wear the legend
on your wrist.
The origins of the legend
The story of Chryse and Argyre appears in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, book VI, chapter 23, and later in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies, XIV, VI, 11. It is a legendary tradition rather than an established account of two real islands.
Read Isidore of Seville’s textThe landscape shown is a visual evocation of this imagined world.