This ring is all about style and is typical of the 1920s fashion for geometric looking pieces of jewellery known as the Art DecoJewellery made in the Art Deco era (1920-1935). More period. The square French cut sapphireBlue is the best-known colour for this gemstone but it can be found in all colours of the spectrum. After diamond, sapphire is the hardest gemstone.
More has been tipped in to a 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 shape within a 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 setting. There is a small diamond on either side.. The most immediately noticeable feature of the French cut sapphire is the crown that appears square when viewed from above, and it has just 9 crown facets. Adjoining the four sides of the tableThe large facet on the crown of a faceted gemstone. More are four triangle facets that pointA unit of weight for a diamond, being one-hundredth of a metric carat. It is used for weights that are decimal fractions of a carat, and all figures after the second decimal point are, in the diamond and jewellery trade, generally discarded. More towards the corners of the crown. This gives the appearance of a four pointed star. It was a very popular cut in the Art Deco period. This ring would make a perfect engagement ring