Elegant White Gold Ring with Diamonds & Synthetic Rubies, c. 1935

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Elegant White Gold Ring with Diamonds & Synthetic Rubies, c. 1935

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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, and later 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 longer sides slightly rounded inwards and the shorter sides curving outwards. An octagonal diamond of approximately 0.11 ct sparkles in the center of the design. Four navette-cut synthetic rubies surround it like almonds on a gingerbread. Ten diamond roses provide additional sparkle. The ring is crafted in platinum on white gold, typical of the time. With synthetic rubies and real diamonds, a completely new look was achieved here - a modern, previously unseen design that still impresses today.

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An essay by the German mineralogist Dr. Alfred Eppler, for example, who wrote about synthetic rubies in the Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung in 1910, shows just how widespread they were at the time this piece of jewellery was created: "Since science and technology have progressed so far as to produce beautiful artificial rubies, some of which are so exquisitely successful that even the most subtle tools of the scholar threaten to fail in distinguishing them from the natural ones, why should their use be restricted?" (Alfred Eppler: Synthetische Edelsteine, in: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung 7 (1910), p. 61f., here p. 62). Nevertheless, a lively discussion arose as to whether synthetic stones should always be declared.

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