Unworn ring with champagne-colored 0.61 ct old-cut diamond from our workshop

A matter of the heart in gold

Unworn ring with champagne-colored 0.61 ct old-cut diamond from our workshop

€ 1,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

Over the years of trading in antique pieces of jewellery, unmounted historical and modern diamonds have repeatedly found their way to us. However, the search for beautiful settings for these diamonds turned out to be more difficult than expected. Modern ready-made settings, as you can buy them in the shops, are often soulless machine products with no feeling for shape and proportion. But beautiful, hand-forged, antique settings rarely come to us without matching diamonds. So we commissioned our goldsmith to forge a ring setting according to our design, which we then had cast using the old technique. This ring now bears an antique old-cut diamond of 0.612 ct, which was cut in the second half of the 19th century. Its quality was additionally graded by an external diamond laboratory here in Berlin. It is a stone in the color "light brown" with clear natural inclusions (p1). Two small set diamonds in delicate ornaments with milgrains structure the ring shoulders and give the piece its light elegance, which beautifully showcases the large brilliant-cut diamond in the center. At the same time, the piece of jewellery sparkles with every ray of light that hits its finely crafted surfaces. The ring can also be worn every day thanks to its high-quality, durable materials and flat design.

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In ancient times, diamonds were prized above all for their incomparable hardness. As symbols of invincible strength, their beauty was secondary at best. In fact, early diamonds do not appear at all attractive to the modern eye. Medieval cutting techniques also did not allow for spectacular light reflections and the widespread table cuts only brought out the brightness and color of the stones. All this changed in the graduated 17th century. The nobility of the Baroque period developed a preference for glittering gemstones. Rose cut diamonds were particularly popular, with their many facets reflecting the candlelight beautifully. In the middle of the century, the first early brilliant cut developed, known as the Mazarin cut after the influential Cardinal Jules Mazarin and characterized by a crown with 17 facets. Towards the end of the century, these diamonds were replaced by a new shape, the Peruzzi cut, named after its inventor. Vincenzo Peruzzi was a gemstone cutter from Venice who increased the crown of the diamonds by an additional 33 facets to a total of 33, thereby increasing the fire of the stones enormously. However, these early diamonds were not standardized in terms of the number and shape of the facets. Each stone was cut in such a way that as much substance as possible could be retained. New diamond deposits in Brazil in the second half of the 18th century then led to a cut shape that became known as the Old Mine Cut. These diamonds are already very similar to today's full-cut diamonds, but it would take a few more generations of continuous improvement in cutting technology before the old mine cut became the old European cut and finally, in the 1940s, the modern full cut.

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Size & Details

A matter of the heart in gold

€ 1,790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

Our Promise

We want you to be 100% satisfied! For that reason, we examine, describe and photograph all of our jewellery with the utmost care.

You can rely on our years of experience in the trade and our expertise as a professional art historians for reviews of the antique jewellery. As a member of various trade organisations and the British Society of Jewellery Historians, we remain committed to the highest possible degree of accuracy. In our descriptions, we always also indicate any signs of age and defects and never hide them in our photos – this saves you from any unpleasant surprises when your package arrives.

Should you for some reason not be satisfied, please don’t hesitate to contact us so that we can find a solution together. In any case, you can return any article within one month and we will refund the full purchase price.

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