Good morning, kittens! (I’m trying to branch out on my endearments.)
I have something bold and wonderful for you today, so we’ll dive right in. I’d like you to meet a truly remarkable piece: it’s perfection in a sapphire and green beryl cocktail ring.
First things first: how cool is this thing?? 10/10 for pure visual effect. Color and shape hit it out of the park right from first glance.
This sapphire and beryl cocktail ring may look modern, but an antique – later Art Deco, from the 1930’s – 1940’s. You can feel the retro period coming on in its incredible boldness, but the Deco geometry is still there. It’s fantastic.
Let’s get a little more into the weeds now. Why is it fantastic? Well, first of all: the stones. That is a killer sapphire in the middle of this ring. A 5.68 carat, completely natural, no-heat emerald-cut blue Ceylon sapphire. Hot damn.
Surrounding big blue is a remarkable halo of 8.68 carats of gloriously mint green beyrl. The stones are perfectly matched in color and precisely cut to fit perfectly into each other to form a seamless, even, and stunning frame for the central sapphire. It’s gorgeous work. The jeweler who set these stones knew exactly what they were doing.
Each antique engagement ring you look at brings you closer to The One. Will this one be it? Or perhaps the next? It’s waiting for you.
Take this one: the luscious Old Mine center diamond is held in a platinum trellis of millegrain openwork details sprinkled with smaller diamonds, a pattern which gives way to a geometrically engraved ring shank.
Older diamonds aren’t like modern diamonds. Their broader, less precise cuts are designed to come to life in candlelight, flickering softly with iridescence rather than sparkling as brightly as possible with clinically exact faceting.
Repeat after me: “Thank you so much! It’s an antique.”
Antique engagement rings are heirlooms looking to find families. A treasure like this has been passed down to you from history – if you make an antique engagement ring your own, it can become part of your family’s future.
A lot of engagement rings are pretty – that’s their job. The challenge is finding the one that feels like it was made exactly for you; the one that fits your personality when you’re dolled up for a night out or when you’re watching Netflix on your couch in yoga pants.
