David Yurman Pave Crossover Pendant Necklace (18k white gold + diamonds)

A cross made of two strands

The pendant is a 30mm Crossover motif in 18-karat white gold, pavé-set with diamonds totaling 1.61 carats and hung on a 1.7mm chain with a slider clasp, 36 inches long overall. The maker sells it under style number N17295D8WADI36 and describes the line as celebrating 'the rhythmic weaving of line and form, enhanced by the brilliance of hand-set gemstones.'

David Yurman presents Crossover as a portrait of its founders' partnership. In the maker's words, the collection's overlapping strands symbolize the melding of David and Sybil Yurman's aesthetics and intersecting points of view. Sybil Yurman is quoted on the product page: 'David and I collaborate on everything, responding to each other's creative ideas.'

In its early versions, the company says, the collection twined strands of silver and gold, a mix it now calls a David Yurman signature. This pendant drops the silver entirely and covers the crossing in diamonds, which is why it sits at the top of the line's necklace prices.

Two artists from the Beat years

David Yurman was born in New York on October 12, 1942, and Sybil Kleinrock on December 10 of the same year, a few miles apart. According to the company's timeline, David learned direct welding of bronze in Provincetown in 1958 from the sculptor Ernesto Gonzalez, later apprenticed for two years with the modernist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, and spent five years hitchhiking between Greenwich Village, Venice Beach and Big Sur. Sybil left school in 1957, painted, and lived among Beat poets in San Francisco.

They met in September 1969, when Sybil applied to be studio manager at the New York studio of sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp, where David was foreman. In 1971 she wore a necklace he had sculpted, the Dante, to a gallery opening, and orders followed. In 1973 they formed Putnam Art Works in upstate New York, selling what David called 'sculpture to wear' at more than 150 craft fairs a year.

They married in 1979, soldering their own wedding bands on the way to the ceremony, and formed the David Yurman company in 1980, with Sybil as co-creator in every part of the business. In 1977 David had been one of 12 jewelers chosen for the first New Designer Gallery at the Retail Jewelers of America show, an event the company describes as the start of designer jewelry as a category.

From Starlight to Cable

The crossing-strand idea grows out of David Yurman's welded wire sculpture. In 1982, the company says, the bronze rods of his sculptures led him to bundle strands of gold into a necklace and bracelet dotted with diamonds, the Starlight Collection, which won the Intergold Design Award in 1983. A simple twist of those parallel wires produced the first Cable piece: 50 feet of gold wire shaped by hand, with pink tourmaline and emerald end caps.

Sources disagree slightly on the date. The company's own timeline puts the first Cable design in 1982; other published accounts give 1983. Either way, the twisted Cable became the house signature, and the company describes it today as a series of carved, S-shaped flutes that appears across its collections.

The business grew from there. David Yurman was the first major designer to set diamonds in sterling silver, with Silver Ice in 1997; the first boutique opened on Madison Avenue in 1999; and a High Jewelry Collection of one-of-a-kind pieces with rare stones premiered in 2010, the year of the company's 30th anniversary.

How to identify this necklace

The specific piece in this entry is the 30mm pendant in 18-karat white gold with 1.61 carats of pavé diamonds on a 36-inch chain. The Crossover line includes many smaller pendants and versions in silver or yellow gold; the size, the metal, the total carat weight and the style number are the details that separate this one from the rest. The maker lists the UPC as 192740789991.

When checked on October 3, 2026, the maker's U.S. site listed the necklace at $19,500 and flagged it as a limited-quantity item, with a link to contact a diamond specialist.

Counterfeits are a real concern for this brand. In March 2019 a federal court in New York entered a default judgment for David Yurman of $1,550,000 and a permanent injunction against 31 defendants running websites that sold counterfeit goods.

A family business at 50

In 2020 the company marked 50 years since David Yurman designed his first piece of jewelry in 1970. It remains privately held and headquartered in New York, and the founders' son, Evan Yurman, who joined in 2003, has led design of the men's, wedding, timepiece and high jewelry collections.

In 2017 a monograph titled David Yurman Cable, the brand's first book, explored the Cable as an archetypal form, and the company says the 2010 flagship on Madison Avenue was built around a Cable-inspired staircase. The Crossover pendant is a way of wearing that same twisted line as a single diamond-covered emblem.

The numbers

Carat weight

1.61 ctw, pavé-set diamonds

Metal

18-karat white gold

Pendant size

30mm

Chain

1.7mm, 36 in total length, slider clasp

Style number

N17295D8WADI36

UPC

192740789991

Timeline

1. Oct 12, 1942

   David Yurman is born in New York City; Sybil Kleinrock follows on December 10.

2. 1958

   David learns direct welding of bronze from sculptor Ernesto Gonzalez.

3. 1964

   David begins a two-year apprenticeship with sculptor Jacques Lipchitz.

4. Sep 1969

   David and Sybil meet at sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp's studio.

5. 1973

   The couple founds Putnam Art Works in upstate New York.

6. 1977

   David is one of 12 jewelers in the first New Designer Gallery at the Retail Jewelers of America show.

7. 1979

   David and Sybil marry in New York.

8. 1980

   The David Yurman company is formed.

9. 1982

   The Starlight Collection and the first Cable design appear, by the company's account.

10. 1997

    Silver Ice sets diamonds in sterling silver.

11. 1999

    The first David Yurman boutique opens on Madison Avenue.

12. 2010

    The High Jewelry Collection premieres; the company turns 30.

13. 2017

    The monograph David Yurman Cable is published.

14. Mar 2019

    A federal court in New York awards the company $1,550,000 against 31 counterfeit websites.

15. Oct 3, 2026

    The 30mm white gold pavé Crossover pendant is listed at $19,500 on the maker's U.S. site.

The world in 1982

• Jan 13, 1982

  Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C.

• Jan 30, 1982

  Elk Cloner, an early computer virus written by a 15-year-old, is found on Apple II computers.

• Apr 2, 1982

  Argentine forces occupy the Falkland Islands; the Falklands War follows.

• May 1, 1982

  The World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• Jun 11, 1982

  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opens in the United States.

• Jun 12, 1982

  About 750,000 people rally for nuclear disarmament in Central Park.

Price record

This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown. Asking prices often sit above what buyers pay, but an ask is not a ceiling: a sale can land on either side of it. It is not a value.

By reference price, David Yurman Pave Crossover Pendant Necklace (18k white gold + diamonds) is number 55 of 100 in the jewelry entries of the FLOAT 100. 44 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (93 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.

Did you know

• David Yurman hand-twisted 50 feet of gold wire to make the first Cable piece.
• Sybil and David soldered their own wedding bands in a hurry on the way to their ceremony.
• The couple went to a meeting to sell their young business right after their wedding, found the offer too low, and kept it.
• David Yurman says he first saw art he loved at age 11, in a library book about the Lascaux cave paintings.
• Their first business, Putnam Art Works, showed at more than 150 craft fairs a year.
• In 1997 David Yurman became the first major designer to set diamonds in sterling silver.