Sharon Stone, Cecília Krull, Cristina Ferreira, Carla Bruni, Úrsula Corberó, Queen Letícia of Spain and Princess Mary of Denmark chose Portuguese Filigree as a jewel, reinforcing its status as one of the most relevant national icons. In 2018, Filigree finally received the certification category, highlighting the specificities and characteristics that distinguish it, giving it the ability to reinvent itself and innovate.

When The Value of Time Group became interested in Portuguese Certified Filigree, adding the century-old Joalharia do Carmo jewelry shop to its portfolio of brands, it established a protocol with the certifying entity and the municipalities where Filigree is produced. This protocol reaffirms the Group’s social economy model with a focus on artisans, guaranteeing the continuity of art and profession, while ensuring that consumers are presented with unique jewelry, completely handmade, averse to industrial production.

Recently, one of the most promising Filigree artisans, Adelino Soares, created a very unique jewel for the Filigree Workshop of Portugal, one of the business areas of The Value of Time Group, which also includes the Portuguese Sardine store, in Times Square. With Filigree genes – his mother was a filler and his grandfather was a miner – Adelino Soares put technology at the service of tradition, using it in favor of his artisanal art. And so a tin was born from his hands that faithfully replicates the “Ingot” – the most exquisite tin of Portuguese Sardine, with delicate Sardine fillets, skinless and boneless and with edible gold flakes. The design and production of the structure of this Filigree ingot took 3 days to execute, to which were added 30 hours just for filling using 28 meters of 0.22mm strands, as thin as the thickness of a strand of hair. A true work of art gold plated in 1.5 micron gold. It can now be seen in the place where it makes the most sense, Times Square, New York, the world’s showcase par excellence, and where Portugal shines ever more intensely.

Despite working with Filigree mainly in gold and silver, the northern artisan says: “We are developing the production of Filigree in platinum, something that does not currently exist, to raise the art of Filigree in Portugal in the world to a new level.”