Hermes Amulettes Constance Pendant Necklace Rose Gold With Diamonds H121303B 00

Forty-three pink sapphires do something to a pendant that diamonds cannot: they give it a blush. The Amulettes Constance in rose gold carries 0.53 carats of them inside the Constance silhouette, a plaque 0.72 by 0.5 of an inch with an H cut through the middle.

Pink stone beside pink gold is an old idea, and it works because the sapphires are set close together, so the colour reads as a surface rather than a scatter. The chain adjusts between 14.96 and 15.75 inches, which lets me wear it high on a bare neck or tucked just under a collar.

I treat mine as a summer piece. Over a cream shirt the sapphires look almost coral; against a black dress they turn deeper and the rose gold outline does the rest. It is the amulet in the collection I would give to someone who finds diamonds too neutral.

Two honest points. Pink sapphires are softer in effect than diamonds under dim light, so expect colour rather than sparkle at night; and the adjustable slider is a hidden mechanism, so pull gently rather than tugging.

If you are weighing the stones, remember that sapphires blush rather than flash: pink over pink gold turns the pendant into a soft disc of colour, closer to enamel than to diamond. That makes it easier to wear in daylight than at a black-tie table, and it has become the piece I reach for with a linen shirt and nothing else. Solid rose gold 750/1000, French made, with the sapphires set into a plaque you can wear all summer.