the ring

Most of you have probably heard by now that I got engaged to Kolia Sadeghi on November 15...and since I have received some requests to "see" the ring, here it is. It's an estate piece, supposedly from the 1930's. The jeweler was pretty confident that it was made by Garrard & Co., but I guess I will look for proof of that next time I'm at the design arts division of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, where the crown jewellers' archives are kept...not that it really matters, but who can resist an excuse to visit an archive?


The band is gold; the setting is platinum, with 12 tiny pave-set diamonds encircling the main stone that are only visible from the side.