Thursday, May 19, 2011

Amythist Love









This customer had a few older pieces of jewelry and wanted something new. Great reuse of stones.

Started going down a few different roads with this design but it ultimatly came together with a clasic Harry Winston style of mounting. The first version we were trying was going to use some Rubies too but the customer decided that the Diamond only version was better. My wife took the great photos. I used a combination of Pave setting and prong setting so that we could use different size diamonds. The millagrain (the bumpy edge on the ring shank) really gave it a classic feel. Im glad to see that color is coming back in style.


You HAVE to click on the last pick to really appreciate this ring.





Here is a amazing piece that we were able to build in 10 days. Nice green zircon about 14 cts. We created a realy simple but ballanced mounting in 18 kt gold.

When your trying to balance a large stone on a delicate hand the design is everything. Can you imagine how clunky this could be.


I started with the prong placement then swept the lines down to form the shank.

This allowed me to keep the stone low and stop the ring from spinning on the hand. And we were able to build this just in time.

I think this is one of those where the render really looks like the finished piece.