Discover Hand-Carved Apple Watch Cuffs | PerDiem

Explore the meticulous craftsmanship behind PerDiem. From wax modeling in Brooklyn to lost wax casting, shop our luxury Apple Watch jewelry today.

 

The Process

Every Per Diem piece begins not with a shape, but with a feeling.

An mood, a texture, something half-formed and hard to name. From there it moves to paper — sketch after sketch, chasing the thing until it starts to look like itself. Some ideas resolve quickly. Others take weeks of iteration before the form feels honest.

Once a direction emerges, it moves into three dimensions. Wax and clay become the first physical expressions of the idea — worked by hand, adjusted, reworked. This is where the design stops being a drawing and starts being an object. The material pushes back, and that resistance is part of the process.

From there, precise CAD modeling captures every curve and dimension, bridging the handmade with the technically exact. The final digital model becomes the blueprint for casting — a process rooted in the ancient lost wax technique, where molten metal is poured into an investment mold and the wax gives way to silver or gold.

What emerges from the cast is raw and full of potential. It passes through polishing and finishing — stages that require patience, a steady hand, and an eye trained to know when a surface has become what it was always meant to be.

The result is a piece of jewelry that carries the full arc of its making. You can feel it in the weight of it. In the way it sits on the wrist.