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.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Can you please tell me where you found this picture of the ring originally? I need to settle a bet. Thanks!
January 7th, 2010 at 8:03 am
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!