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Custom Designing your Diamond Ring

Laurent — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:04:37 +0000

Over the past few years, we have turned more and more toward customizing the majority of the rings we create. At first our customers feel a little daunted by the task but when they learn about the process and start thinking about the benefits, they become eager and excited about the project. Most of the time we start with a nebulous concept, a quick sketch or a picture from a magazine. Using sample rings on our site and in our showroom we start talking about the different possibilities, proportions and options. We take copious notes and come up with an cost. After the initial meeting, we discuss our customer’s wishes with our design team and everything gets put into a CAD image. We review the initial CAD and make necessary adjustments until we are very close to what our customer envisioned. The wedding band, in its’ original incarnation had a huge swerve which made it impossible to wear on its’ own. In the design process, we softened that cure to the point that it is barely noticeable.

We then present the CAD to our customer and upon approval move forward with the manufacturing process. In the case of the attached pictures, we used stones from our customer’s original wedding band along with sapphires from an heirloom ring. We were fortunate that they were nearly the same diameter. In the design process we were able to adjust the heights of both rings such that they would look good next to each other despite the difference in the size of the stones in the shanks.

Once the design is approved, creating the ring takes about a week to 10 days. The end result is personal, unique and worthy of being yours.

Maintaining the Prongs on your engagement ring.

Laurent — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:36:23 +0000

Whether your ring is made of platinum or gold, you have to remember that metal can get worn down over the years. With regular wear, it is normal for prongs to become worn and eventually they can bend or break. We recommend you bring your jewelry to be inspected by a professional at least once every year. You should also periodically take a close look at your rings and make sure everything looks normal. Although it is hard to tell in the picture below, the prongs on this particular ring were worn down to barely a tenth of a millimeter. The ring had been worn daily for 22 years and the owner had been keeping an eye on it. When we finally worked on the ring we were able to replace all of the prongs, essentially rebuilding a new ring. The money spent maintaining a ring is only a fraction of what it would cost had one of the stones been lost.

Creating a Custom Ring

Laurent — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:48 +0000

Our clients often come to us with little to no idea of what they want. Others have very definite opinions and will bring pictures from magazines they have gathered over time. And some of our clients come to us with a sketch. In this case, they had drawn something on a napkin and brought it along. Her idea was that she wanted to set a round stone and two smaller princess cut stones in a fairly ornate ring with diamonds running down 3 sides of the shank. Her sketch was basically exactly what she wanted. After our initial discussion, we created a CAD image of our understanding of her sketch (Version 1 in the image below). She loved it but she really wanted some scroll work on the side to break up the mass of the ring and she felt the princess cuts were not big enough. Version accomplished that but unfortunately brought the price over her budget. After talking it over, she decided to stick with the larger side stones but could save some money by reducing the number of diamonds going down the shank by half. We originally planned on 36 small stones and Version 3 brought that down to 18. This turned out to look to “stubby”. The final version added a 4th stone (on three sides on both sides of the ring) and was the winner. This whole design process took about 3 weeks and our customer got exactly what she wished for.

Custom Diamond Bezel Engagement Ring with a Braided Shank

Laurent — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:41:24 +0000

Here is a ring that was actually a marriage of a couple of different styles. Our customer wanted a round diamond but loved the squareness of a cushion cut, so we created a cushion diamond bezel around a round stone. They also liked the braided shank on one of our stock designs. The resulting ring has approximately 0.65 ctTW of diamonds surrounding a stunning 2 ct round diamond.

Kate Hudson’s Engaged! A Look At Her Ring

Mara — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:09:18 +0000

Kate Hudson has been sporting her baby bump around town. It’s quite the sight, but now she has something new that paps and fans can’t take their eyes off of: an engagement ring!

It’s Kate’s second marriage. We take a look at her first ring from ex Chris Robinson and her new bauble from soon-to-be-hubby, Muse frontman, Matt Bellamy.

From Chris Robinson:

Kate’s first ring is an art-deco setting from Neil Lane with a 5-carat Asscher-cut diamond.

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The new ring from Matt:

This engagement ring is a platinum-set ring with an emerald-cut diamond and tapered baguettes on the side and is approximately nine carats in weight. The estimated value of the ring is set to be $200,000.

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