Mindi Mond reimagines a 1920s bar pin as a modern sautoir

A circa-1920s bar pin became Mindi Mond’s double-wrap sautoir, a necklace that turns a small piece of antique jewelry into something built for movement and daily visibility. Set in platinum and 18k white gold, the piece carries 10.9 carats total weight of modified brilliant amethysts and 4.7 carats total weight of old European-cut diamonds, with a listed price of $54,300.

The necklace belongs to Mond’s RECONCEIVED line, where carefully sourced antique and estate elements are individually remade so no design is duplicated. Here, that philosophy gives new purpose to a form that was once a staple of American jewelry trade catalogs from 1880 to 1941, when bar pins appeared in endless variations. Mond has kept the original object’s period character intact, but the longer line, the white-metal setting and the double-wrap silhouette push the jewel into the present.

The gemstone choices make the conversion feel especially persuasive. Amethyst was a familiar colored stone in late 19th- and early 20th-century jewelry, and old European-cut diamonds belong squarely to the Art Deco vocabulary that collectors still chase. In this sautoir, those references do not read as costume or nostalgia. They read as material evidence, with the amethysts bringing saturated color and the old European cuts adding the softer, more irregular flash that modern brilliant cuts often smooth away.

Mond founded Mindi Mond New York in 2009 after working in New York City’s garment industry and while raising her two children, a route that helps explain the brand’s mix of technical restraint and visual instinct. The necklace also comes with a 35-inch gold chain and a 4-inch pendant drop, proportions that make the antique centerpiece feel deliberate rather than stranded. The result is a jewel with provenance, but not with pause, a 1920s fragment given a second life as a sautoir meant to be worn, seen and passed on.