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Luxurious Vintage Ring With Opal & Diamonds in White Gold, ca. 1975


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Luxurious Vintage Ring With Opal & Diamonds in White Gold, ca. 1975
Luxurious Vintage Ring With Opal & Diamonds in White Gold, ca. 1975
Description
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Just like the trends in art, jewellery fashion always reflects what moves a society. Sometimes it is technical innovations such as the introduction of electric light, which led to a fashion for sparkling diamond jewelry for the evening at the end of the 19th century. Sometimes, however, these themes are also of a substantive nature: In the 1960s, for example, jewellery came into fashion that seemed inspired by the race to the moon, the new space devices and the thought of distant galaxies that suddenly no longer seemed quite so unattainable. Cool white metals characterized this fashion, often arranged into abstract, narrow wires: "Sputnik jewellery" is therefore also the name given to such designs. One such piece was the "Kosmos" brooch, which won the Jewel of the Year award in 1967. Icy shining diamonds, midnight blue sapphires, the self-explanatory moonstones and opals can also be found in these pieces of jewellery. This ring from around 1975 also reflects this fashion. At its center is a large, round-cut opal cabochon whose iridescent play of colours on a milky background is reminiscent of cosmic nebulae. It is a precious Australian full opal weighing around five carats. Twenty white diamonds are arranged like stars around the center stone. The undercutting is shaped into the characteristic wires that characterize the jewellery of this period. They elevate the gemstones in an airy gallery, allowing plenty of light to reach them. The unusually shaped ring band also reflects the taste of the time and is designed to prevent the ring face from turning. The ring is a glamorous eye-catcher on the finger and still looks surprisingly modern even after around 50 years!
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Luxurious Vintage Ring With Opal & Diamonds in White Gold, ca. 1975
Beam Me Up, Scotty!
€ 3,490.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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