Polly Wales and Castro Smith unveil fantasy-inspired one-of-a-kind jewelry for gifting

Polly Wales and Castro Smith turned Valentine’s gifting into a collector’s exercise: a 16-piece collaboration of one-of-a-kind fine jewelry that replaced mass-market sparkle with fantasy imagery, hand engraving and the kind of scarcity that makes a piece feel personal before it is even worn. Wales, based in Los Angeles, and Smith, based in London, joined forces across an ocean and a continent to create rings and necklaces that read less like seasonal merchandise and more like miniature objects of art.

The project previewed on June 4 and went on sale at 6 p.m. GMT on Friday, June 5, with a Los Angeles pop-up helping introduce the release. Forbes said the collection was available on June 5, and the timing fit a gift market that increasingly rewards pieces with a clear origin story. Wales has spent more than a decade making her signature crystal rings, and her brand is built around unique handmade jewelry in precious metals and gemstones using the ancient lost-wax casting technique.

That foundation met Smith’s printmaker-like engraving language, rooted in fantasy, sci-fi, mythology, history, biology and nature. The result was a visual vocabulary of molten sapphires, negative space, ancient symbols, futuristic textures and creatures. In the Webs & Wings Signet Ring, Polly Wales cast the form in 18k recycled yellow gold, then Smith engraved it and finished it with white rhodium plating. The Dew Drops Cognac Diamond Padlock Necklace pushed the idea further, with a cognac diamond peek-a-boo padlock, a spider-web motif and white diamond dew drops.

What makes the collaboration especially giftable is that it already sits in Polly Wales’s established luxury tier. Stockists show rings and necklaces starting at about $1,320 and climbing past $5,000, which puts the collection firmly in the collector category rather than the impulse-buy lane. Smith trained in seal engraving under RH Wilkins, and that old-world discipline shows in the surface detail: these are pieces that reward close looking, then reward it again when the light catches the engraving. For a gift, that kind of specificity lasts longer than a trend cycle.