History

In august 1901, von Meiswinkel started his journey to the south of Switzerland into the Alps to find the mountain green-veined white - Artogeia Bryoniae – a butterfly found in the Alpine meadows at high altitudes. During his trip he met an attractive Swiss girl. He fell in love with her passionately but she ignored his feelings as he was considerably older than her. Despite her obvious coldness the collector decided to propose. In one night he created two beautiful rings and called them Artogeia Bryoni after the butterfly that became the symbol of his love. He gave the rings to the girl along with his heart. But she was as stubborn as ever and rejected him. Frustrated and angry, he threw the rings into a lake in the mountains and returned to Saxony.

Some time later he dared to write to her. Unexpectedly, she replied. They continued writing each other for four years. Every year, on the day they first met, he sent her a new ring crafted in a shape of yet another butterfly. One day, after four years of exchanging letters, she arrived at his door step holding the "Artogeia Bryoni" rings.

During the wars, the rings were lost by the heirs or, most likely, sold, and only 50 years later the master's grandson found the drawings of those rings in his Grandfather's archives and recreated the two original rings. Now they are the symbol of "Artogreia Bryoni" – the engagement ring company.