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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.

Customizing an engagement ring design.

Laurent — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:56:08 +0000

We provide a fairly extensive inventory of “stock” engagement ring designs but as many of our customers discover during this process, there is nothing better that customizing the design of an engagement ring. This offers the opportunity of presenting something truly unique to your loved one, something you cannot get anywhere else. Our selection of designs is something of a stepping stone or samples to chose from. One of our customers fell in love with a braided split shank halo design but unfortunately the existing model only accommodated a 1ct round stone and he had decided on a stunning 2ct cushion. Together we redesigned the ring for his cushion, adding some minor details and keeping the proportions the same as what he fell in love with. Made out of platinum, this custom ring was set with approximately 0.65ctw of melée diamonds, about twice as much as what the original design contained.

Pavé Halo and Shank Engagement Ring

Laurent — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:48:26 +0000

A couple of months back, a customer requested a ring “with diamonds everywhere”. This was a pretty broad request and after a couple of meetings and countless quick sketches, we finally had what we all hoped was what she wanted. The center stone weighs 1.75 carats and there is a total of approximately 0.85 carats of diamonds set in the halo and around the shank. We delivered the ring about 3 weeks after the whole process started. When we opened the box and showed him the ring, his jawed dropped. They were both speechless and we got worried for a second. Then her face lit up and she said it was beautiful beyond her imagination.

Pear Shape Diamond Engagement Ring with a Double Bezel

Laurent — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:27:06 +0000

Here is a custom double bezel platinum engagement ring we recently created for one of customers. She wanted the bold look of a metal bezel defining the pear shape and the beauty of a diamond bezel around that. The center stone weighs 2.5 carats and there are 22 stones in the bezel weighing a total of 0.35 carats.