14k Gold Lab Grown Diamond Poire Drop

Marquise above. Pear below. Four to five carats of deliberate drama.

Two pointed stones stacked in one line, both tapering, so the eye travels from the top of the lobe straight down to the tip of the pear without a single interruption. This is the largest earring AVRA makes and it behaves like it. E colour, VS1 clarity, nothing inside either stone to distract from the outline. Put these on and everything else you are wearing can be very, very simple.

✦ Diamond Specifications

• Stones: A marquise-cut lab-grown diamond at the ear, suspending a larger pear-cut lab-grown diamond below
• Clarity: VS1+, a full step above our house standard
• Color: E+, the whitest grade we work with
• Cut: Excellent
• Carat weight: 4 to 5 ctw
• Setting: Prong-set with protective prongs over each point, and the pear hung on an articulated link

The higher clarity and colour grades are not a flourish. At four to five carats every stone is large enough that an inclusion or a trace of warmth would be visible from conversation distance. Small diamonds forgive. These do not, which is why we spec them tighter.

✦ Metal & Construction

• Solid 14k gold throughout, in yellow or white. Not plated, not filled, not vermeil.
• Four points across two stones, and each one is capped by its own prong. Points are where a diamond is most vulnerable and where cheap versions of this earring fail.
• The pear hangs on an independent link rather than sitting rigid, so the lower stone moves while the marquise stays fixed at the ear.
• The marquise is set flush and low against the lobe. At this weight, a high basket would let the whole earring pitch forward within an hour.
• Push backs on both posts. Press them fully home before you leave, because there is real weight hanging on them.
• Built for your order in your chosen metal.

✦ How to Wear It

Hair fully up or slicked back. Half-up will not do it. Both stones are pointed and the earring is essentially a strong vertical line, so it needs a clear field to work in.

Nothing at the neck. No pendant, no collar, no layered chains. If you want something else on, make it horizontal and make it low: a single cuff or a tennis bracelet at the wrist. Keep the outfit to one colour and one shape. Poire is the piece that decides how the rest of the look behaves, and the women who wear it best treat it as the only decision they made that evening. Worth knowing how this differs from the Solène Drops, which pair a round with a pear: Solène is softer and more everyday, Poire is pointed at both ends and considerably larger.

✦ Why Lab-Grown Diamonds

• Chemically and optically identical to mined diamonds. Same carbon lattice, same 10 on the Mohs scale, same fire.
• Graded against the same 4Cs by the same gemological standards, which is how we can promise E colour and VS1 clarity at this size.
• Traceable origin. You know exactly where each diamond came from.
• Meaningfully better value, and this is the piece where that matters most. Four matched fancy-shape stones at E/VS1 is the kind of specification that would otherwise price a pair of earrings well past what any of this is worth to you.

✦ Perfect For

• Black-tie and galas, where the room is already dressed and you want to still register.
• Your own wedding, particularly with a bare neckline and hair up.
• The night you accept the award, take the stage, or host the party.
• Milestone birthdays and the anniversaries of things you built yourself.
• The woman who has already bought the studs, the tennis bracelet and the necklace, and is now buying the piece she actually wanted.

✦ Care & Longevity

• Solid 14k gold will not tarnish or fade. It only needs cleaning.
• Warm water, mild soap and a soft brush. Pay attention to the link between the two stones and the underside of both settings, where residue collects fastest.
• Never sleep in these. At four to five carats the drop has genuine weight, and a night of tugging against a pillow is the fastest way to stretch a link or loosen a back.
• No showering, no swimming. Chlorine attacks the alloys in gold.
• On last, after perfume, hairspray and sunscreen. Off before anything else at the end of the night.
• Store each earring lying flat in your AVRA box so the pear is not pressed sideways against the marquise.

✦ Made to Order

Each pair of Poire Drops is built for your order, with all four stones matched for colour, clarity and taper so the two ears are genuinely identical. Made to order, ships in 2–5 weeks, between Nov 10 and Dec 1.

• Returns accepted within 20 business days of delivery for store credit, unless stated otherwise under product.