Jacob Elordi Commissioned a Custom Gold Tooth in Honor of Cathy and Heathcliff
This is the second grill Raksha has custom-made for Elordi, whom he also supplies with vintage watches (an Audemars Piguet Bamboo Day-Date Moonphase in 18k gold, if you were wondering). It’s also the second sentimental piece they’ve made together. “The first grill we did for him was a memento of him being brought on to Bottega [Veneta],” says Raksha, referring to Elordi’s arrangement as a friend of the house. He made the actor a gold window-style piece, set with an emerald. “The green is reminiscent of the brand’s [signature] green.”
While the business of intricately-themed press tour outfits is booming (his co-star Robbie has been orchestrating a doozy), Raksha says this was less red-carpet pageantry and more emotional.
“He’s a fashionable guy. He’s creative. I think he wanted a memento,” says Raksha. “This is Jacob’s memento to Wuthering Heights. As his personal jeweler, we’re here to actualize these fun ideas. That’s what we do as a brand. We create these timeless objects that have deeper meaning intertwined into them.”
Raksha adds, “Jacob found us because he was in Toronto and we have a grills company called Toronto Grillz.” Even though he doesn’t fully operate that business anymore, it “still exists as a website and as an Instagram page” and “because of how simply named it is, it still works as a honeypot when people are in town.”
So, Elordi—presumably, one imagines, typing “grills Toronto where get” into Google – found his way to Toronto Grillz, then to Raksha. “It’s the same way that Post Malone found us years ago,” says Raksha with a laugh. “This was before he popped off, we got an email from post-malone-at-hotmail-dot-com.
“So what starts out with an artist being in Toronto—for whatever reason—they think, ‘Oh, I should get a grill while I’m here.’ And then they discover that there’s a very multifaceted jewelry brand based out of Toronto and that we’re also experts in watch-sourcing. We’ve been known for making grills and making statements in grills since 2014, from A$AP Rocky to Young Thug, Gunna, Kendrick [Lamar]. We’ve done grills for everyone for almost a decade.”
Between the grills and the vintage watch sourcing, Elordi has been keeping Raksha busy. But as for next projects, he’s not fussed where he goes next. “I would say that we stand by at the ready to help Jacob execute his ideas,” says Raksha. “We’re at his service, really.”
A version of this story originally appeared on British GQ.
