What is more timeless than an ornate woven metal dance around a perfect quartz crystal? Well, maybe the quartz itself! Its birth took millions of years and then is set to see the world grow and change in massive leaps of geologic time throughout its life. Quartz also has an absolutely magical trait called piezoelectricity where it emits a specific electromagnetic pulse based on its size which is why it’s used in watches and can be used to make a radio. What happens inside the quartz is pretty astonishing! If you give it any pressure or kinetic energy, it will emit its unique and signature pulse, if you emit a pulse next to it, it will restructure it’s molecular arrangement to the electromagnetic pulse like sand on a sound plate. This is incredibly interesting because quartz also records information inside of it. In a 2016 edition of Forbes magazine, they did an article on Microsoft about a recent development where they were able to encode 360 terabytes of information on a piece of quartz the size of a quarter. This data was projected to remain stable for more than a BILLION YEARS. Think about that for a minute… a record of the environment around it for millions of years around your neck. What could be more timeless?
Quartz wrapped in copper. 4.7 cm x 2.5 cm
*Each of these are handmade and may have small variances in design, message me directly if you would like to choose your specific piece*