18ct Gold Double Band Ring set with Black & White Diamonds by de Grisogono

A stunning 18ct75% pure gold (or 750 parts pure gold and 250 parts other metals) More gold ring made by the well known company De Grisogono. It is composed of two bands, one set with brilliant cutA circular gemstone cut, especially for diamonds or other transparent stones, with 57 or 58 facets. This cut returns the greatest amount of brilliancy, fire, and white light to the eye, making it an immensely popular cut. Also known as the Modern Brilliant Cut, the American Brilliant Cut, or the Ideal Cut. More bright white diamonds, the other with black diamonds.

Lebanese-Italian jeweller Fawaz Gruosi founded the Geneva-based de Grisogono in 1993, and named the luxury jewellery company after his mother, who had been the MarquiseAn oval or elliptical gemstone cut which has pointed ends. Also called a Navette shape. More de Grisogono. He wanted a name that would conjure elegance and rarity. Gruosi would soon have his own aristocratic nickname “King of Black Diamonds” for the stones that made his jewelry house famous.

Gruosi grew up in Florence and as a teenager got a job with the Florentine jeweller Torrini and went on to work for luxury jewellery houses Harry Winston and Bulgari in the years that followed. When de Grisogono was established, most jewellers favoured the simplicity of white diamonds and platinumDerives from the Spanish word 'platina' meaning 'little silver'. Acknowledged since the 1900s, platinum's durability and natural brightness has been and still is today highly treasured A metallic element prized for its rarity, whiteness, high tensile strength and insusceptibility to corrosion, platinum first became widely used in jewellery in the late ninete... More. Gruosi was more interested in colour and diamonds with character. Along with the then-undervalued black diamonds, he designed vibrant pieces that exuberantly mixed stones like emeralds, sapphires, amberA fossilized tree resin dating from 100,000 to 3 million years old, typically yellow to brown in colour, and very rarely, cherry red. The most commercial source of Amber is in Northern Europe around the Baltic Sea, with a lot of that material treated to improve its transparency. More, pink opalOpals occur in a range of body colours from white, black or grey, bright orangey red and a pale watery colour. The most precious opals show strong colour contrast and generally have a dark body colour with a vivid array of colour play. More and jadeA semi-precious stone that ranges in colour. Translucent jade is more highly valued than opaque jade. Jade is often cabochon cut. Stones with imperfections are usually carved. Two different minerals are known as jade: jadeite and nephrite. The Chinese have prized jade for thousands of years and regard it as having medicinal properties when worn or ingested a... More.

De Grisogono’s earrings, bracelets, rings and other audacious pieces bedecked with black diamonds captured the fancy of well-heeled buyers in the 1990s, leading to the brand’s meteoric rise to fame. Since the early aughts, de Grisogono has become synonymous with A-listers who donned the jeweller’s wares on red carpets; the company was also known for hosting an annual party at the Cannes Film Festival. De Grisogono made headlines in 2017 by partnering with Christie’s to sell a necklace made with a dazzling 163.41-carat emerald-cut diamondA precious, lustrous gemstone made of highly compressed carbon. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known to mankind. Colours of diamonds range from colourless, yellow, orange and brown to almost black. Natural coloured (or ‘fancy’) diamonds can be extremely rare. The cut, colour, clarity and carat weight of a diamond are the criteria jewellers use... More for £20 million, a record price for a D-color flawless diamond.

The company folded in 2020.

This ring is amazing and very wearable.

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