Konstantino Gents onyx collection
For Father’s Day, you may want to consider giving jewerly. It is not just today’s guy that wants to look stylish and sophisticated. Men’s jewelry dates back all the way to the Stone Age. In South Africa, there was evidence found of jewelry made from mollusks that dated back to 100,000 years ago. Other materials like teeth, shells, wood and bone were fashioned into adornments. Most often, these pieces were used as a means to fasten clothing together. Some were traded for goods and food as currency.
The Pharaohs of Egypt were known for their love of gold and many wore gold all over their body. They would wear gold bracelets, necklaces, pendants, breast plates, arm cuffs, anklets, earrings, and head pieces. Bracelets around the wrists and neck were believed to offer protection and as a show of status, power, and wealth. Egyptians lived rather short lives, generally only 30-40 years and jewelry was a large part of preparation for their death. They believed the more jewelry and gold you were buried with, the better prepared you would be for a prosperous afterlife. Jewelry also signified to the Gods the status of the wearer so that their position would be known into the afterlife.
During the middle ages, men wore rings, necklaces and even adorned their swords, knives, shields, and armor with precious stones. Jewelry became a way of separating the upper classes from the serfs. Some also believed that some stones and jewels held mystical powers and were wielded by seers and magicians. Napoleon also influenced men's jewelry with the more outrageous and flashy jewelry quickly became a popular accent to men's attire. Due to his influence many of the royal families began to have older pieces reset into more ornate settings, sparking the rage of reinventing jewelry in new ways.
So as you see, men’s jewelry has a rich history as a symbol of power, affluence, position, status, and wealth. McCaskill & Company offers a wide selection of men’s jewelry from David Yurman and Konstantino.
