Jessica McCormack Debuts Medallions, Antique-Style Gold Pendants for Summer 2026

Jessica McCormack has turned the antique coin pendant into this summer’s most polished shorthand for wearable inheritance. The 11-piece Medallions capsule, part of the brand’s Summer 2026 offering, is built in 18-karat yellow gold with hand-punched hallmarks, diamond accents and lapis lazuli details, all handcrafted in the London workshop that has made the Mayfair jeweler a byword for modern heirloom design.

The appeal is in the tension between ornament and ease. Medallions is presented as a collection of bold gold pendants meant to carry wearers “from sunrise to sundown,” and the styling points are telling: pendant necklaces sit alongside Long Guard Lapis & Diamond versions designed for beach-to-dinner dressing. The collection’s imagery draws on coin-like motifs such as Cry Baby, Wild at Heart, Flower Power, Fern and Swallows & Amazons, with pendant forms that include a crying eye, a heart on fire, a spiral, a flower and a swallow. These are not generic charms but small emblems with the weight and silhouette of objects that might have been passed down.

That heirloom feeling is central to Jessica McCormack’s language. The house describes its jewelry as pieces to be “worn and loved every day,” while also calling them “future heirlooms” and “future artefacts.” That framing fits the brand’s long-running design identity, which Harrods traces back to its launch in 2008 and to a talent for translating Georgian and Victorian craft for the modern age. Here, the hallmarks and antique-coin references do the same work: they give each pendant the look of something discovered, not manufactured.

The capsule also lands at the right moment in the summer jewelry conversation. As bigger beaded necklaces continue to dominate warm-weather styling, Medallions offers a more refined counterpoint, swapping volume for symbolism and weight for polish. The collection’s Long Guard Lapis & Diamond necklaces, offered in 16-inch, 17-inch, 21-inch and 30-inch lengths, make that transition explicit, giving the line range from close-to-the-collar layering to longer, swingier proportions. The result is a pendant story with enough structure to read as fine jewelry and enough intimacy to feel bridal-adjacent, the kind of piece that can sit over a slip dress in August or under a collar in the city and still look like it belongs to the wearer’s future.