Dear Friends and Customers,
One Good Eye Silver is embarking on a big adventure as we prepare to move overseas. Though I am excited about our new beginning, I am also saddened for leaving after having spent almost thirty years in the US..
Until the move is completed, feel free to browse the site and email us with any questions you might have or to say “hi” but please do not try to purchase anything!
I am planning to re-configure the business and re-launch, from Europe this time, in the late Fall of 2024, if not earlier, and hope you will be patient and, once we are "live" again, honor us with your patronage.
Thank you very much for your trust all these years and for the thought-provoking conversations we have had - on jewelry, the history of personal adornment and life in general! See you again in a few months,
Margarita Poutouridou
One Good Eye Silver
An early Mexico City (I will suggest) maestro, P. Ochoa must have been a contemporary of Matilde Poulat’s and M. Velazquez’s. His work, wrought in the same “Mexico City” style of repoussage which for me represents the country’s Arts and Crafts version in jewelry-making, is very rare to come upon but, I think, of the highest quality. All of this pieces that I have seen over the years seemed to revolve around the “ancient mask” theme - in our case, in the smaller, “masquette” version. Exquisitely worked links in a foliate design make up the bracelet, their shape slightly convex to better fit around the wrist, cleverly articulated thanks to the hidden hinges, and beautifully oxidized. And then there is the agate “masquette” in browns and taupes, adorning the mirrored central station. Simply gorgeous…
Size / Weight: just shy of 7” inner circumference (clasped) by 1 3/4” wide (at its widest); 66.3 grams
Hallmarks / Date: “P.OCHOA” as well as “925M”; 1930s-early 1940s
Condition: excellent vintage with powerful presence, exquisitely worked, confident repoussage, perfect oxidation that augments the bracelet’s sculpturality, a beautiful “masquette” with an unusual color, with no damage and no repairs noted - a piece worthy of the best collection
Inv# 15490
An early Mexico City (I will suggest) maestro, P. Ochoa must have been a contemporary of Matilde Poulat’s and M. Velazquez’s. His work, wrought in the same “Mexico City” style of repoussage which for me represents the country’s Arts and Crafts version in jewelry-making, is very rare to come upon but, I think, of the highest quality. All of this pieces that I have seen over the years seemed to revolve around the “ancient mask” theme - in our case, in the smaller, “masquette” version. Exquisitely worked links in a foliate design make up the bracelet, their shape slightly convex to better fit around the wrist, cleverly articulated thanks to the hidden hinges, and beautifully oxidized. And then there is the agate “masquette” in browns and taupes, adorning the mirrored central station. Simply gorgeous…
Size / Weight: just shy of 7” inner circumference (clasped) by 1 3/4” wide (at its widest); 66.3 grams
Hallmarks / Date: “P.OCHOA” as well as “925M”; 1930s-early 1940s
Condition: excellent vintage with powerful presence, exquisitely worked, confident repoussage, perfect oxidation that augments the bracelet’s sculpturality, a beautiful “masquette” with an unusual color, with no damage and no repairs noted - a piece worthy of the best collection
Inv# 15490
