The ultimate treasure of the Caribbean – Conker’s beads

Amongst the great family of pearls, there is a pale pink shadow, petite and beautiful, mysterious and legendary, the Conch pearl (also called the conch pearl)! Konk beads are a type of sea surface pearl that is produced purely and naturally in the body of the goddess Phoenix conch.

The Preciousness of Conker Beads

Only about 50,000 conchs can yield a usable holek pearl, and of the only 2,000-3,000 holek pearls found each year, only 20-30% at most are available for jewelry production and processing. In other words, there are not enough pearls in the world for 900 pearls per year to be made into brilliant jewelry. Therefore, they are expensive and can cost a lot of money! This type of conch is only found in the Caribbean Sea.

Because of its remote and mysterious origin, the pearl shells of the Confucius pearl were not used in jewelry until the stage of the Vesper. The new style characteristics stage only gradually occurred in the holek beads for the original elements of jewelry jewelry.

The goddess Phoenix snail’s relief pattern ornament (left) the new style characteristics of the holek bead necklace (right)

Famous jewelry brands like HarryWinston, Tiffany& Co., Cartier, Mikimoto have all released luxury jewelry with holek beads. Mikimoto, the head of pearls, also created a collection for Konkaku beads, which made them famous in Japan.

Catier Conque bead strand, HarryWinston Conque bead earrings, Mikimoto Conque bead corsage, Tiffany&Co. Conque bead pendant

Why is the production of pure natural and natural kinky beads scarce?

The first reason is that it is a pure natural pearl, from the growth and development of the goddess Phoenix snail to the production of the pearl, all in a purely natural environment, so to speak, each pearl is a “beautiful accident”.

Secondly, the Queenconch snail is only lived in the Caribbean, and its meat is a local food, and fishermen only find the conch pearls when they take the meat. In recent years, due to excessive salvage, the total number of goddess Phoenix snails has gradually decreased, and has long been listed as an endangered wildlife, with severe restrictions on the subject activities of its salvage, thus making it possible to obtain even fewer conker beads.

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