Elegant ring with diamonds & synthetic sapphires in white gold, circa 1930

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Elegant ring with diamonds & synthetic sapphires in white gold, circa 1930

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Synthetic gemstones, especially sapphires and rubies, were very fashionable in the first decades of the 20th century. Auguste Verneuil had developed the technique for producing them in 1891. His laboratory-developed rubies, later joined by sapphires, were almost indistinguishable from natural stones in terms of structure and color. Synthetic gemstones quickly became the dernier cri of the fashion world. This was because they made completely new designs possible, the realization of which had previously been prevented by the lack of availability of gemstones of consistent quality. This ring is a beautiful example of this type of jewellery, which would probably never have been created without the invention of gemstone synthesis. The showpiece of the ring is designed in the shape of a shield, elongated and rectangular, with the shorter sides slightly rounded outwards. An outer frame of rose cut diamonds encloses an intensely blue field of synthetic sapphires. The stones are cut to fit, set close together so that no setting edge or prongs are visible. Their deep blue alone shines here and seems to float in the frame of the diamonds. The center - and this is where the sapphires are attached - is set with a sparkling old-cut diamond weighing around 0.10 carats. Cutting the sapphires is complex and requires a lot of material. Finding stones of exactly the same, best possible color would have been very, very difficult with natural stones. With synthetic sapphires, however, a completely new look was achieved - a modern, previously unseen design that still impresses today. In keeping with the use of the synthetics, the ring itself is made of high-carat white gold, an equally innovative, newly developed gold alloy at the time, which only became more widespread in the 1920s. As the design also clearly points to the Art Deco era, we date this ring to around 1930.

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"Today's synthetic stones are technological masterpieces, which even experts often have to go to great lengths to distinguish from genuine stones" From a jewellery catalog from 1939

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