Being entrusted to design a bespoke wedding ceremony band to enhance a singular classic engagement ring is the utmost privilege. Whether or not an inherited household heirloom or a pre-loved piece of jewelry supplied a second probability at life, a classic engagement ring is a relic of a bygone period that tells a thousand tales and celebrates metals and gem stones already above-ground. We’d be fibbing if we stated the presence of a classic jewel wasn’t intimidating at occasions, nonetheless. For us, the problem lies within the activity of guaranteeing that the brand new wedding ceremony band is sympathetic to the characterful nuances of its older and wiser neighbour, embodying a few of its spirit with out stealing its thunder.

Fortunately, we get pleasure from rising to a problem. As we speak, we’ll discover a few of the wedding ceremony bands we’ve designed to match with distinctive classic engagement rings.

CAROLYN: ART DECO AND ANGLES

Weighty and angular, Carolyn’s Artwork Deco-style engagement ring introduced itself to us with a realizing glimmer in its emeralds, difficult us playfully to do our best. Though its broad break up band and low-seated central cross-over of gem stones are precisely the options that make Carolyn’s engagement ring so particular, they created testing circumstances for any wedding ceremony band with any hope of schooching cosily alongside them. Eager to keep away from a niche between her rings, Carolyn expressed a zeal for her wedding ceremony band to accommodate the geometric contours of her engagement ring. Jewelry design of this degree of precision can’t depend on guesses hazarded by eye, so our goldsmith stored maintain of Carolyn’s engagement ring, scanned it in utilizing a Pc Aided Design (CAD) program, then used that print to create a resin mock-up. This resin was then used to assist forged a marriage band with a recess that invitations its neighbour to fit in as flawlessly as an identical jigsaw puzzle piece.

To match the hardness of Carolyn’s engagement ring, her new wedding ceremony band was forged in recycled platinum. Instilling it with character of its personal, our grasp hand-engraver Darren adorned its floor with delicate vines, flowing organically in a playful distinction to the ring’s linear type.

ROSIE: RUSTIC CHARM

Rosie’s classic engagement ring boasts an elevated central setting, making it barely extra accommodating of a straight wedding ceremony band than the broad and comely centrepieces usually attribute of rings from yesteryear. This engagement ring is not any off-the-shelf job, nonetheless. Evidently vintage, its hand-faceted previous minimize diamonds are charmingly natural, its gemstone settings chunky, its band proud and broad. In Rosie’s thoughts, a recent wedding ceremony band – all gleaming surfaces, exact strains and sensible diamonds – would create an uncomfortable paradox.

Our Liberty wedding ceremony band is characterised by a method of grain-setting which secures its gem stones a snug distance from each other, every pinned into place by small beads of steel and enclosed inside a hand-scored field; an uncanny parallel to that of Rosie’s engagement ring. Recognizing a possibility to additional customise the design, Rosie commissioned a modified 3mm band width and a row of two.5mm cognac sapphires to exchange the customary dazzle of diamonds. Not like the floor sparkle of latest brilliant-cut diamonds, the mild shimmer of those dusky sapphires are the proper match for Rosie’s old-cut diamonds, initially faceted by hand with the aim of twinkling quietly below candlelight. 

MELODY: TOI ET MOI

The toi et moi engagement ring is a design basic, its namesake – ‘you and me’ in French – referencing two gem stones resting eternally in opposition to each other. Timeless, elegant and very romantic, the toi et moi blueprint is a wonderful selection for an engagement ring. We urge no shopper of ours to be deterred by its demanding form.

Understandably, Melody’s genuine Artwork Deco toi et moi engagement ring is her pleasure and pleasure. Topped by two 6mm old-cut diamonds, its tapered shoulders grain-set with an extra 10 small sparklers only for the sheer pleasure of additional sparkle, this vintage jewel is the epitome of a show-stopper. Eager to keep up its ‘important character’ function, Melody’s imaginative and prescient was of an understated wedding ceremony band – as slender as doable – that may slot quietly alongside it. Although symbolic in its personal proper, this new jewel would improve, not detract.

Through the identical CAD resin course of employed within the design and creation of Carolyn’s formed wedding ceremony band, our goldsmith tailor-made a jacket that may match Melody’s diamonds like a second pores and skin. Slim, plain and polished to a gleam, this refined addition says ‘much less is extra’.

Feeling impressed? We leap on the probability to design an identical engagement ring and wedding ceremony bandset. Familiarise your self with our award-winningbespoke service anddrop us a line to get the ball rolling…

Love, Arabel & Group