Grosse Gold Plated Necklace with Swagged Crystal Integral Pendant

Grosse Gold Plated Necklace with Swagged Crystal Integral Pendant featuring a beautiful chain with an integral swagged pendant with hatched or criss cross markings and five lozenge shaped crystals in a row at the centre. This lovely necklace has a double hinged clasp, affording it two lengths of 42cm and 40cm when the double hinged clasp is removed. It is signed 'Grosse' on the reverse, as well as on the reverse of both hinged clasps and it weighs 59.5g.

Grosse was founded in 1907 by Mr Heinrich Henkel and Mr Florentin Grosse, also referred to as Henkel and Grosse and during the 1930's worked with design houses such as Lanvin and Schiaparelli in Paris as well as with Harrods in London and Saks in New York. Since 1955 Henkel & Grosse worked together with Christian Dior and for fifty years held a license to produce and distribute Dior jewellery worldwide.

Henkel & Grosse carried on producing their own jewellery lines, For example, the line Grosse Bijoux, which was expanded in the 1960s to include the collections Grosse Sterling and Gold. In 2005 the family withdrew from the business and the firm became part of the Dior group.