Posie, the newborn daughter of west London jeweller Cece Fein-Hughes, now has a miniature signet intended as the first entry in a deliberate family archive. Fein-Hughes sketched the design while pregnant, drawing on the Victorian language of flowers and the storytelling jewellery she remembers from childhood on the Dartmoor moorlands, then translated those references into two companion rings.
The Story in Pictures
The ring made for Posie has a signet face measuring 6mm by 8mm and sits on a 2mm band. Fein-Hughes engraved an unbloomed rosebud on the baby piece, and set the same rose in full bloom on the adult companion. She explained the choice of motif by its link to her daughter’s name, saying, "Her name means a small bunch of flowers, so I always knew they would be at the heart of the design." The maker described the commission as a long-held personal ambition, adding, "It really is the biggest dream come true."
Fein-Hughes’s studio is known for enamel-rich, talismanic work carried by high-profile clients such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. She has a history of making bespoke signets, lockets and charms that mark births and other milestones, including pieces with enamel and star-sign motifs and a portrait of Taylor Swift’s Ragdoll cat, Benjamin Button.
She locates the project in a Victorian precedent of jewellery that transmitted private meaning across generations, citing examples exchanged by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. That lineage informs her attitude to permanence; the baby signet will not be resized and she intends to preserve it as a fixed object. Fein-Hughes said she wants to frame and keep the tiny ring "exactly as it is," treating it as a portrait of who Posie was at the beginning.
Alongside the rings, Fein-Hughes described the surrounding aesthetic she envisions for the child, favouring traditional children’s labels such as Pepa London, Tartine et Chocolat and Bonpoint as visual companions to the miniature signet. She plans to make additional rings for her daughter over time, each one mapped to a different chapter of Posie’s life, so the initial piece functions as the opening entry in a conscious, multi-generational story rather than a lone keepsake.
The next phase of the project is iterative: the workshop will add new rings as milestones arrive, while the preserved first signet remains a fixed material record of infancy. In that way Fein-Hughes frames the work as both a personal commemoration and a model for how contemporary bespoke jewellery can be used to build an heirloom intentionally.
