Top Key Pendant Designs You’ll Love to Flaunt

Necklaces are an easy way to instantly elevate your look. Whether worn alone or layered, you can achieve so many looks with necklaces. While you have endless necklace options, some designs stand out for their visual appeal and symbolism, like key pendants. Key pendants have been popular for years and many cultures believe in the meaning of gifting keys to loved ones.

All About Key Pendants

Key pendants are beautiful and elegant, and their symbolism makes them ideal for gifts. They can mean unlocking a brighter future, success, knowledge, unlocking potential, the key to your heart, new beginnings, and luck. Many cultures view the 21st birthday as a special coming of age birthday. They're gifted a key pendant to celebrate the new chapter of life and all of the new beginnings to come.

Keys have been popular for thousands of years. In the past, Jewish midwives used to give a key to a woman in labor to encourage safe delivery of the baby. In Eastern Europe, keys were hung upside down over beds to ward off bad dreams. Some cultures would bury their dead with keys so they can unlock the afterlife. Folktales have mentioned skeleton keys that unlock anything in your path.

Key pendant necklaces are still popular today. You've heard of giving prominent people keys to the city, and the same meaning applies to giving key necklaces. It's like giving the key to your heart, and if it's a lock and key necklace, it symbolizes giving love and trust. Key pendants make meaningful gifts for loved ones in your life whether it's giving a symbol of love and trust, marking a birthday, or celebrating a life milestone.

Another reason why key pendant necklaces continue to be popular is that they're are so many design variations. You'll find key pendants from small to larger, from simple to adorned. Whatever your style, you can find a key pendant that appeals to you.

Our Top Picks

Instead of discussing all of the design variations in detail, it’s easier to show. We gathered some of our favorite key pendant examples.

Vintage Lab Created Diamond Key Necklace

This 14K white gold key is adorned with diamonds for the perfect amount of sparkle. This beautiful pendant is shaped like a vintage key and embellished with 1/20 carats of lab-created diamonds. You can purchase this for yourself or for an important person in your life as a reminder to keep your eyes open for opportunities.

Petite Lab Created Diamond Heart & Key Necklace

This heart lock and key necklace would make a great gift for that very special person who has the key to your heart. This 14K white gold necklace features a petite lock-and-key design, with the lock shaped as a heart cut-out lined with ? carats of lab-created round diamonds. It features a smooth, polished white-gold key that is attached to a shimmering heart lock. It’s meaningful, sparkling, and beautiful.

Classic Lab Created Diamond Key Necklace

If you want an adorned key pendant, then you will adore this necklace. It features 0.25 carats of lab-made diamonds. This white gold piece features a classic key pendant with the bow and shaft adorned with lab-created round diamonds and the bit with a pear-shaped diamond. This diamond key necklace is elegant, timeless and eye-catching.

Lab Created Diamond Antique Key Pendant

The sparkle in this 14K rose, yellow or white gold pendant looks like a vintage key but has 1/10 carats of lab-made diamonds. It draws its inspiration from the round windows of historical mansions and palaces. The sparkling diamonds add a unique touch and draw the eye.

Wrapping Things Up

Key pendants make excellent gifts. They're timeless, beautiful, and elegant, and they carry meaning. They can be given as a token of love or to celebrate a milestone, such as a big birthday or graduation. Keys throughout history have carried a variety of meanings. They can mean unlocking a brighter future, knowledge, success, unlocking potential, the key to your heart, new beginnings and luck. The key pendants from With Clarity are the ideal size to get noticed and are adorned with lab-created diamonds. Whether a gift to yourself or for someone special in your life, key pendants make excellent gifts.