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Wedding band  ·  2026

The Koa and
Gold Band

Solid 14 karat gold, Koa on both sides, and a branch cut down the middle of it.

Solid 14k GoldKoa WoodHand-engraved branch

Concept to reality

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The drafting plate of the band, with the Koa, the gold and the leaf engraving labelled. The finished band on a wooden bench, the engraved branch catching the light.

The plate, and the finished band in daylight.

Cut, Not Printed

The branch running the length of this band is engraved into solid gold. It is not plating, not a pattern laid over a cheaper metal, and not something that wears through.

Koa sits on either side of it, dark and figured against the gold, and the whole thing is finished so the wood and the metal come up level under a thumb.

The gold band standing against shed antler in daylight.

Solid gold

Made to outlast the people who wear it.

Three materials

Nothing in it is decoration.

Close detail of the polished 14 karat gold rim of the band.
01

Solid 14k Gold

The band

Solid throughout, not plated. It is the structure, the colour and the surface the engraving is cut into, all at once.

Close detail of the leafy branch engraving cut into the gold centre of the band.
02

The Engraving

The design

A leafy branch, cut down the centre of the gold and carried the full way round. Every leaf is a separate cut.

Close detail of the Koa wood inlay, the dark figured grain against the gold.
03

Koa Wood

Both sides

Koa on either side of the engraving, dark and deeply figured. It is what makes the gold read as warm rather than bright.

Yours

A band you will still be wearing in forty years.

Solid gold, wood that means something, and an engraving cut rather than printed. Tell me what it needs to carry.

The finished gold band resting against shed antler.