Jewellery’s safest trend: the padlock

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The padlock – a mechanical motif with emotional baggage – has become a fixture in watch and jewellery design. As the emblem of love’s unbreakable bond, dainty and decorative locks appeared everywhere on sentimental jewellery of the early 19th century. A century later, the lock was reimagined in modernist mode, an expression of the machine age of the 1920s and…