Chapter I
Aurora
First light, held still
Aurora began with a single question inside our atelier: how little metal can hold a stone of this weight without asking for attention.
The answer took nineteen months. Each setting is milled from a solid block of platinum, then reduced by hand until the claw measures 0.42 millimetres — the threshold at which the human eye stops reading structure and begins reading light.
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