Yes this platinum, diamond, solitaire engagement looks great.  How many carats is that?  Two carats?  Jesus H.  The ring looks great, but seriously, look at that thing:  it’s just too good to be true.  I’ve never seen a tension setting like that and, really, I don’t think one like that could work.  That diamond would pop out of there like a piece of kettle corn.

The setting is one of the trickiest things about designing a cool ring.  The setting is functionally important (keep that ice in!), but it’s either got weird prongs; some huge bevel set or you get a headache just looking at all the tension in a tension set.  Really, do you want the symbol of your marriage to be constant tension?

Ideally a diamond could just hover over the ring like a perfect satelite (diamonds are forever, Mr. Bond) and refract all the light it can without disrupting the continuity of the ring itsself.  Could someone work on that - the hover-set diamond?  Thanks.


2 Responses to

“This solitaire diamond ring cannot really exist”

  1. Andrea Says:

    Can you please tell me where you found this picture of the ring originally? I need to settle a bet. Thanks!

  2. bec Says:

    oh my goodness - i found the picture of this ring through a google image search, and fell in love it it! i sent it to our jeweller who, understandably said, “how the hell….” and sent me back for further research, upon which, alas, i discovered the title of your post! back to the drawing board but am so glad to find your blog with lots of inspiration!

    thank yo u!

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