Bat Wing Stud Earrings — Gothic .925 Sterling Silver with Red CZ
SKU: 3949
Each earring here is a single bat wing — one wing, not an entire bat. Solid .925 sterling silver, 16mm long and 8mm tall, with a round red cubic zirconia secured by four individual prongs at the narrow end. The two are manufactured as a mirrored left and right, so the wings arc outward in opposite directions when you wear the pair.
Who This Is Actually For
If you want gothic you can wear to the office — At 16mm x 8mm, each stud remains inside the outline of an average earlobe. From across a table it registers as a dark, textured curve. The red only announces itself when somebody stands close enough to shake your hand.
If you already own skull studs — There is no recognizable face here. No sockets, no jaw, no teeth — only a silhouette. In a rotation that already leans heavily toward skulls, that silhouette behaves differently, and the red cubic zirconia is the only luminous element on the entire earring.
If you only buy solid silver — The wings, the posts and the bullet clutches are all solid .925 sterling. Each wing carries a 925 hallmark on its polished reverse. Nothing here is electroplated, so no coating can wear through at the post, where friction concentrates.
What Wearing It Actually Feels Like
The wing is finished two different ways at once. The membrane panels between the ribs are darkened and slightly granular. The ribs themselves — and the long leading edge along the top — remain polished. Under a lamp you get a single thin, brilliant line running the length of the wing. Everything below it remains in shadow.
The post is cylindrical, and it sits toward the broad end of the wing rather than under the stone. So you can rotate each stud to whatever angle suits you — tip up, tip level, tip dropped toward the jaw — and the friction clutch secures it there. At about 1.3 grams an ear, there is no downward pressure to notice after a long day.
Heads up: The four prongs around the cubic zirconia project higher than any other element of the earring. That is what catches a knitted beanie when you pull it off — not the wing tip, which lies completely flat. Remove the studs first, or pull the hat forward instead of straight up.
Regular wear brightens the polished ribs faster than anything else on the earring. The darkened panels are recessed, so a polishing cloth passes over them without reaching the bottom of the grooves. That is why the contrast survives instead of flattening out after a year.
The Specs — And What They Actually Mean
Questions You're Probably Asking
Q: Is the red stone glass, cubic zirconia, or a natural gem?
It is cubic zirconia — a laboratory-grown stone, not glass and not a natural ruby or garnet. Each earring carries one round faceted red CZ in a four-prong setting. Cubic zirconia sits considerably harder on the Mohs scale than glass, so its facet edges retain their brilliance instead of dulling after a few months.
Q: Do I get two earrings or just one?
Two — this is sold as a pair, a mirrored left wing and right wing, 2.6 grams together. Plenty of gothic wing studs are sold individually, so it is worth stating clearly: both ears are covered, and each earring arrives with its own sterling bullet clutch.
Q: How far does the wing reach past the piercing?
Most of the 16mm length reaches out to one side of the piercing. The post sits toward the broad end of the wing rather than under the stone, so the wing and its red cubic zirconia extend outward across the lobe. At 8mm tall the earring stays low, behaving as a stud rather than an ear climber.
Q: Why bat wings? Where does the gothic bat come from?
From European vampire folklore, which came first. The blood-feeding bats of Central and South America were named after the legend by European naturalists in the 1700s and 1800s, not the other way round. Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897, then permanently fixed the bat silhouette into the vampire image.
Quick Specs & Real-World Performance
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Every stud, hoop and drop we produce sits in the sterling silver earrings collection, and the darker half of the catalogue lives in our gothic jewelry collection.