22k gold ring set with 1.96ctw rose cut diamonds.

We adapted a medieval style ring with modern imagination to set these rose cuts. The diamonds are a disco ball set into an armoured hive, loosely speaking.

We achieved this by aligning the diamonds on a high dome bezel. Setting these rose cuts on a highly curved surface is a challenge, since these diamonds have no pavilion. But getting this to work will flesh out the surface of these type of diamonds.

You see the diamonds, not the prongs.

And you can actually look right through the triangular facets of these rose cut diamonds into the very hive.

We intended for this Hive Ring to be a sister or friend ring to the Atomic Ring. But we needed the Hive Ring to live up to the repute of its Atomic Ring. Yet nothing should compete with the Atomic Ring (it is so splendid).

Hence this Hive Ring had to be highly distinct. Our idea was to put two separate components into one ring, a hive and an armour.

The ring band is very beautiful, a graduated ‘conch shell’ on each ring shoulder.

The outcome is a very futuristic, or very medieval, ornamental ring.

While the Atomic Ring is one stone bounded by a cluster, the Hive Ring is many stones set off in one orb. The Atomic Ring is sentimental/seasonal, the Hive Ring is archetypal.

One is an atomic hive, the other is an armoured hive. The third ring to this pair is a comparatively ‘leisurely’ Viking rope band.

This is also a ring made very deliberately, though less freely, to strike a camaraderie with its splendid friend.