22k gold ring set with a 28.15ct alexandrite and accented with 3.14ctw rose cut diamonds, 1ctw brilliant cut diamonds, and 1ctw sapphires.

This ring is set to house a vivid natural alexandrite. Its color floats from green to yellow, with dashes of fiery orange the closer warm light approaches.

This fiery 28ct alexandrite stone sparks / changes color like small explosions when warm light runs over.

The stone measures 18mm by 14mm, with an equally deep 14mm depth. The fire from this alexandrite is owed in part to this depth in its gem material. Our design must harness this blend of nature and cut (or risk compromising its fire).

“Problem structuring, not beauty forming”. Our design philosophy means we are guided by the stone.

That is how we came up with the orb cluster. The ‘blanket’ use of an orb cluster actually frames the big stone. This meticulous cluster arrangement compacts what is really a big ring, into a tactile atomic hive.

The rose cuts mirror the facets of the main stone without typical diamond bling.

Given this is a big stone, using rose cut diamonds offer a soft halo instead of a metallic shine. This preserves the autumnal palette of the alexandrite. The motivation to keep a dark stone soft will give us a unique ring.

We inserted a single rim of brilliant cut diamonds, this is somewhat like ‘outlining’ the main stone. Both the rose cuts and the alexandrite are ‘flowing’ stones; this ‘outline’ serves as a shiny, breathing space. This small gesture is the subtle touch that means more the more you look at the ring.

Four rows of diamonds, the furthest the teardrop rose cuts, the nearest the brilliant cuts, and two inner rows of round rose cuts.

These rose cuts are very tricky to set, not just because there are 71 of them, all without ‘tail’ (pavilion), but because it is critical to set them where “you see the diamonds, not the prongs”.

The sister or friend ring to this Atomic Ring is the Hive Ring.

The drop of sapphires here and there is an artistic, though functional, necessity. Sparsely applied, these pastel unheated sapphires not only counterpoise the sea of diamonds but put in color where your eyes need to see. Your eyes see the main stone even clearer because of this.

The atomic hive is bounded by a loosely formed twist band, with three diamonds a-dotting each ring shoulder. This just forms a relation to the many diamonds on the hive.

This is a ring made very deliberately, though freely, attentive to a rare stone’s inherent beauty.