On March 16 1667 hailstones the size of cobbles rained down on Sir Christopher Wren's London. Wren, marvelling at their regular shape and exquisite faceting, faithfully sketched a few of these extraordinary stones and presented his findings to the Royal Society on March 28 1667.
To commemorate this remarkable natural event, and to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the completion of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, Swarovski has created a set of crystal hailstone mementoes based on Wren's sketches. The Swarovski crystal material delivers a dazzling impression of the wonder Dr Wren would have felt seeing the hailstones fall.
Dr Wren produced the shapes of hail that had fallen March 26 1667 at 4 post meridian. The upper part whereof was a perfect cone, the under part the frustum of a cone, being turned up they represented a marigold flower: the angle, he said, was the angle of a pentagon, so that five of them joined together did make a circle. (Excerpt from Minutes of meeting held at Royal Society on March 28 1667, when Wren presented the hailstone drawings).
The collection includes Hailstones produced in three different sizes: 70mm, 50mm and pendant size 10mm.
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Exquisite....beautiful bling with history!
Magical and timeless, just like Christmas...
Dazzling capture of the "hailstone." Nice work.
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