Jade Diamond Platinum Ring

Fine dome ring set with jadeite jade and diamonds in platinum and 22k.

The apple green jade is worked into a two tone mount for it best evokes a gelatinous flow of colors from stone to metal.

Also, a semi-round cabochon works best in this particular floral ‘croissant’ form, better than ovals or perfectly round.

The ring’s face has symmetrical axes of 17mm, but it does not look like it, an illusive trick of the eye, much like a bloom in nature.

Symmetry is not always necessary for perfection, but a croissant ring looks plushest when calculated proportions can be followed.

Symmetry is very vital in this ring, to revive the old world harmony (to the eye) that comes with heirloom styles en cabochon.

The mount work encapsulates a scalloped fold in each ‘petal’. Six actual and ultra long yellow gold prongs snap the platinum croissant in place.

Each yellow gold prong alternates a white ‘vein’ divider, the latter a silvery cable tie that ‘squeezes’ or ‘tightens’ the croissant.

Together the prong and mount work in this ring add critical visual interest to suggest plushness radiating from its mere 10mm cabochon.

In place of and moving away from filigree work (none in this ring), such metal work makes ‘design’ work imperceptible, the undercurrent of heirloom.

Hence it follows that this ring has escaped the halo and is shaped nowhere a realistic flower but a pictorial and emblematic one.

Once on the finger the ring is delicious, now if only the green agar-agar would wobble…

The secret recipe lies in lifting the cabochon enough to usher light from above and under.

One can see how the ring receives a thoroughfare of light, the green consistently reflects onto its band, that too when the ring is on the finger.

Light is important to jade, because its life en cabochon is not the same as a faceted stone.

Those who are not able to find a workaround will have to find a highly translucent or near transparent gemmy jade cabochon.

Or rely on the illusion of diamonds.

This ring uses diamonds not for sparkle but twinkle, small as they are, encrusted into the platinum.

This is an example of a bespoke ring built by sculpting the metal, its vignette not possible through the use of mould or cookie cutter.