Considered design
Every piece starts as a drawn line and is revised on the body, not on a screen. If a shape does not sit well after a week of wear, it does not ship.
Necklaces · Chokers · Collars · Cuffs
Wear what means something.
Lepoko creates necklaces, chokers and accessories with character, made to be worn every day and kept for years.
- Made
- In small batches
- Metals
- Recycled where possible
- Engraving
- By hand, on request
Why Lepoko
Four things we refuse to compromise on
Responsible materials
Recycled gold vermeil and sterling silver wherever the form allows, with the metal and its weight stated plainly on each piece.
Personalisation
Hand engraving on signets, discs and cuff faces. An initial, a date, or a short word that only the wearer needs to understand.
Gift ready packaging
A rigid ivory box, a cotton pouch and a blank card, with prices removed as standard so nothing needs unpacking first.
The collection
Twelve pieces, made to be lived in
Filter by category, material and price. Sample collection shown for demonstration — prices are illustrative and no order can be placed on this site.
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Maximum price: £420
How it works
From the collection to the collarbone
- 01
Choose a piece
Start from the shape you reach for: a fine chain, a flat choker, a rigid collar or a stacking cuff. Each listing states its metal, weight and length.
- 02
Set the size
Chokers are measured at the clasp and sit high; necklaces are measured full length. If you are between two, we suggest the longer.
- 03
Add an engraving
Optional hand engraving on signets, discs and cuff faces. Up to twelve characters, cut on the bench rather than machined.
- 04
Wrapped and sent
Packed in a rigid ivory box with a cotton pouch and a blank card. Gift orders leave without any pricing inside.
Craft and materials
What a piece has to survive
At the bench
Finished by hand, not by machine alone
Castings arrive rough. Everything after that — filing, setting the curve, polishing the edge, softening the back — happens by hand at the bench. It is slower, and it is the reason two hammered cuffs never carry the same surface.
01 — Lepoko
The clasp
The part nobody photographs
A necklace is only as good as the fitting you use twice a day. We size clasps to be found without a mirror, weight them so they sit at the back, and stamp the metal standard where you can read it.
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On the body
Designed on people, then revised
Every shape is worn for a fortnight before it is signed off — through jumpers, collars, sleep and showers. If it catches, twists or turns green at the seam, it goes back to the drawing.
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Gift guide
Five ways to choose for someone else
Illustrative scenarios, written to make a decision easier when you are buying for a person rather than a size.
For someone who wears one thing daily
A slim choker or fine chain they can sleep, shower and travel in without thinking about it.
Try: Beso Slim Choker
For a first significant piece
Solid gold, small, engravable. The kind of thing that is still worn in twenty years.
Try: Harri Signet Pendant
For a maximalist
A wide hammered collar that carries a plain shirt on its own and needs nothing beside it.
Try: Mendi Plate Collar
For a stacker
Thin brass bands meant to be layered and added to, one occasion at a time.
Try: Esku Thin Cuff
For a milestone
A hand-hammered cuff with an engraved date inside, where only the wearer sees it.
Try: Arri Hammered Cuff
Who this is for
Example scenarios
Illustrative only. These are the situations the collection is designed around, not accounts of real customers.
Buying for yourself
You already know what you reach for and want one better version of it, in a metal that will not need replacing next year.
Marking something
A birthday, a move, a beginning. You want an object attached to the date rather than a card that gets thrown away.
Buying a gift blind
You know the person and not their size. Cuffs, chokers and stacking bands are forgiving, and the gift guide narrows it further.
About the name
Lepoko
/le·po·ko/ — Basque
In Basque, lepoko means a necklace, a choker or a collar — literally, the thing of the neck. Among its further senses it also covers a necktie.
We chose it because it names a place on the body rather than a style, a metal or a season. The neck is where a piece is most visible to everyone else and least visible to the person wearing it, which is exactly the tension the collection is built around.
It is also a word that asks to be said aloud once before it is remembered. That felt right for jewellery meant to be chosen deliberately and then worn without thinking.
Questions
Answered plainly
Contact and personalisation
Personalise a piece, or ask us anything
Tell us the piece, the characters you would like engraved and the date you need it by. We will come back with the layout before anything is cut.
- Hand engraving on signets, discs and cuff faces
- Up to twelve characters, serif or block
- Sizing help for chokers and rigid collars
- Gift notes written and enclosed unpriced
This form is part of a concept demonstration and does not send anything. For real enquiries, email info@exergist.com.