Scintilla Brightens its Collection with Gentlemen’s Fope this Winter

For those who are still new to the brand, appreciating a Fope jewel comes with an understanding of its family heritage and how Fope came from father-and-son workshop to become one the renowned international Italian jewelry brand today without losing its founding ‘values’. 

Cazzalo’s Dynasty of jewelers is legendary, but like all legends, it has a humble beginning. It all started as a small jewelry shop with no more than 20 employees in 1929. They worked together to capture the brightness of the past in the jewels using a modern, innovative approach. Umberto then bestowed his son, Odino, with the same teachings, who transformed the workshop into a state-of-the-art factory after the end of the second world war.

By investing in modern technology, Odino revolutionized jewelry making – introducing the first flexible metal straps that later became a staple in goldsmithing across the globe. The renown of FICM, the original shop, grew across the circles of modern goldsmiths.

Thanks to innovative technologies and the ever-growing admiration of people and goldsmiths, FICM became the first factory to produce flexible metal straps. Soon, leading makers of Swiss watches came to FICM’s door, turning the once-small company into a leading supplier of metal straps across the country. It was a sign of evolution, so FICM turned into FOPE, a Factory of Jewelry Precious Export.

Later on, Umberto, and his sister, Ines, started focusing on modern technologies to create complex jewelry that retains the brightness of the past while retaining the modernity of today. And in 1980, the first Novecento chain mesh was released.

The “Novecento mesh” soon became Fope’s icon, a foundation that laid the ground to turn Fope into an international brand. By the year 2000, that vision, too, was realized. At the heart of Fope lies the respect for the past and the willingness to go beyond the norms of designs to mold, twist, and weave metals in ways that have never been done before. “The Fope Difference”, the industry calls it.