Endless Pear Hoop Earrings in 14K Yellow Gold

A pear hoop puts its widest point at the bottom. That is a structural decision before it is an aesthetic one: mass low in the shape lets the earring find vertical on its own and stay there, where a top-heavy outline tilts and has to be corrected all day.

The shape runs 32.00mm from the lobe down to the base of the curve and 22.00mm at its widest, so it reads as a teardrop rather than as a circle someone squeezed. Tapering toward the top also means less metal crosses the front of the lobe, which keeps an earring of this length from crowding the side of the face. The shape also places its volume below the jawline rather than beside it, which is a more forgiving position for the widest part of an earring to sit.

There is no clasp anywhere on it. The endless closure keeps the outline the shape depends on running unbroken the whole way around, and on a pear that matters more than it would on a circle. The eye follows a teardrop from its point down to its belly, and a visible catch stops it partway.

1.9 grams in solid 14K yellow gold, with the DEEVE lifetime warranty.