The serpent has meant almost everything to almost every culture that's worked with it, but one meaning keeps surfacing across all of them: rebirth. A snake sheds its own skin and emerges from it whole, about as literal a symbol of renewal as nature offers. Ancient Egypt built its own visual language around that idea, the ouroboros, the coiled protector, the same instinct behind the name Khepri itself, the scarab-headed god of the rising sun. The serpent and the scarab come from the same symbolic family.

That symbolism is exactly why the serpent has stayed in the royal jewelry box for two centuries. Queen Victoria's 1839 engagement ring from Prince Albert, a coiled gold serpent with an emerald set in its head, set off a trend that outlasted her reign, and as Tatler has traced, it never really left: Queen Camilla still wears a diamond serpent necklace inherited from her grandmother today. A motif doesn't survive that long in royal jewelry by accident.

That's the lineage Khepri's snake-inspired pieces carry forward, a fluid, articulated coil finished in natural color diamonds, so the serpent catches color the way Victorian pieces once caught candlelight. Some things never go out of style. They just come back around.

Search "Snake" on our website to see all of our serpent inspired pieces for men and women.