MOMENTIA – softly felt

MOMENTIA is born from the belief that time is three-dimensional—an inner landscape shaped by feeling.

Each moment becomes emotion, memory, breath.

MOMENTIA does not remind you of time; it reminds you of how you feel within it.

It is a silent companion to your pauses, your impulses, your most precious moments.

MOMENTIA does not count time.

It dresses it.

David Cottier-Angeli — The Art of Fashion Jewellery Reimagined

A spark from the past is reborn.

Born from the legacy of a grandfather, Cottier — creator of the World-Time and pioneer of horological innovation — and a mother, Angeli d’Assisi, nurtured among Etruscan bronzes and the beauty of classical antiquities — this name carries a dual heritage: that of honed time, and of living art.

As a former jeweller at Piaget, I was trained in the precision and poetry of Swiss haute joaillerie — a discipline where metal, gem, and gesture must unite without flaw. Yet my path led me deeper: into archaeometallurgy, where I rediscovered and reconstructed ancient Etruscan patination and granulation techniques — derived from the direct study of artefacts from Tuscany and Umbria, and documented in my research (Cottier-Angeli, 2018: “Granulation: Reconstructing Etruscan Goldsmithing Techniques”).

These recipes, lost for millennia, now surface on brass, bronze, and copper pieces, evoking the depth, warmth, and time-worn elegance of antiquity.

Designed for those who seek the exceptional — not in fashion, but in the soul of the gesture — each creation is a dialogue between poetry, tradition, and bold modernity.

David Cottier-Angeli — Where archaeology becomes adornment..