La Corbière
Standing on the island's south-west tip, La Corbière was the British Isles' first concrete lighthouse. Its causeway vanishes under the tide twice a day — the shape behind our Lighthouse pieces.
Jersey, Channel Islands
A small island with a very long coastline
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands — closer to France than to England, self-governing for over 800 years, and shaped by some of the biggest tides on earth.
The island behind the jewellery
Jersey lies fourteen miles off the Normandy coast in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, the southernmost and largest of the Channel Islands. It is a British Crown Dependency with its own parliament, its own currency notes and its own Norman-French language, Jèrriais, still heard in place names from Grève de Lecq to Rozel.
Twice a day the sea retreats up to twelve metres, almost doubling the size of the island and revealing a second landscape of sandbanks, gullies and rock pools. Ormer shells, pink granite, sea glass and the low light on St Ouen's Bay are the raw material for everything we design.
Above the water, the island is just as distinctive: green lanes with a fifteen mile an hour limit, twelve parishes each running down to their own stretch of coast, puffins nesting on the northern cliffs at Plémont, and Jersey cows grazing fields that end at the sea. Every piece we make is finished by hand here and sent out in an ivory keepsake box.
- Location
- Channel Islands, Bay of Mont Saint-Michel
- Size
- 9 miles by 5 — about 45 square miles
- Tidal range
- Up to 12 metres, among the world's largest
- Capital
- St Helier, Parish of the same name
- Parishes
- Twelve, each with its own church and coastline
- Languages
- English, French and Jèrriais
Island stories in our collections
Four things you meet within a day of arriving in Jersey — and four collections they became.
Ormer shells
The ormer is Jersey's own abalone, gathered on low-tide 'ormering' days each winter. Its rainbow inner shell gives the Ormer collection its colour and curve.
The Jersey cow
One of the oldest pure cattle breeds in the world, protected on-island since 1789 and known everywhere by its soft face and golden milk — an island emblem we wear with affection.
Pink granite
From the north-coast cliffs to the harbour walls of St Aubin, Jersey's granite glows rose in evening light. We set its warmth into stone and silver.