Nautical: Necklace

In a slight departure from denim, I'm doing to do a series of posts on nautical fashion.

My office is near the workshop of William Llewellyn Griffiths, who makes some really quite spectacular jewelery. Items like this ship with crossed pistols keep me visiting his store like it is an art gallery.

You can view more of his works on his web site metalcouture.

Whilst I like the mariner themes with ships, skulls, pistols and flaming hearts of his jewelery... it is all too big for me to wear. I eventually asked about getting something made, and selected a simple small anchor (it's around 1cm across). It's actually part of a larger ship necklace that he makes. He polished it and set on a chain for me.

I'm very happy with this small trinket. Actually, I just realised that it has been around my neck for one year now, and this was the first time I have taken it off.