Okapi launches its first fine jewellery collection

African luxury lifestyle brand, Okapi, is launching The Karoo Collection, their first fine jewellery line, this September.

The new collection uses the brand’s signature Springbok horn, an African talismanic charm believed to bring good luck to those who wear it, as the foundation for the range.

Okapi’s evolution into jewellery continues their commitment to sustainability using materials generated solely from the existing free range farming industry in South Africa.

Priced from £2,600, The Karoo Collection features black Springbok horn earrings and necklaces, each adorned in different precious and semi- precious stones, including turquoise, cognac and black diamonds as well as orange and blue sapphire and blue topaz.

Attached with gold fittings, the natural materials used in creating this collection have been sourced directly from the continent with the final product being handcrafted entirely in South
Africa by skilled artisans, making each piece individual and completely unique.

The springbok horns are prepared by hand and polished by local artisans in the Karoo region. As each horn is unique, the hardware on the horn must be individually crafted to fit each piece.

Committed to sustainability, Okapi endeavours to give further purpose and use to the free-range farming industry in South Africa by creating functional masterpieces from disregarded and forgotten materials.