Five steps, around three weeks end to end, from a kit on your doorstep to a certified one of one necklace on your collarbone.
1. Order your kit
You choose the metal (sterling silver, 9ct gold, or freshwater pearl) and your stone palette. The collection kit ships free anywhere in the UK and usually arrives within two to three working days. The kit contains a sterile cheek swab, instructions, a consent form, and a prepaid return envelope.
2. Take your sample
The swab takes around 30 seconds. You rub the cotton tip against the inside of your cheek, place it in the supplied tube, complete the short consent form, and post the kit back to our laboratory. Postage is included.
3. Laboratory analysis
Your sample is processed at a UKAS accredited UK laboratory. The lab reads a specific set of markers chosen for their design potential. These are not health, ancestry, or disease markers. The output is a sequence of values unique to you, captured at this moment in time.
4. Design and craft
The sequence is mapped to the stones in your chosen palette. The order of stones along the necklace, and their spacing relative to the pearls or metal beads, is determined entirely by your data. Once the design is generated, your piece is handcrafted by our partner jeweller in Birmingham. Each necklace is hand strung, hand finished, and quality checked.
5. Delivery
Your finished necklace ships inside our signature packaging. The outer black box contains the certificate of authenticity, then a navy sleeve, then the inner black jewellery box, and finally the necklace itself in a double helix arrangement. Steps 3 to 5 together take 7 to 14 working days from receipt of your sample at the lab.
What happens to your sample afterwards
Once the analysis is complete, the physical sample is destroyed and the digital data is encrypted and stored only for as long as needed to fulfil the order, in line with UK GDPR and the Human Tissue Act 2004. You can request deletion at any time.