Five-Emerald Diamond Band

Five oval-cut emeralds in a row, underlined above and below by twelve 8/8-cut diamonds set in white gold — a striped architectural band in yellow gold that uses two-tone construction as pure structure. The three-row composition reads with immediate graphic clarity; the emeralds provide the colour, the diamonds the brilliance, the geometry the authority.

The 8/8-cut diamonds — the classic huit-huit single-cuts of vintage jewellery — give a softer, more nuanced scintillation than modern full-cut stones, entirely coherent within a vintage European jewellery language. The emeralds show the character inclusions expected of natural stones. This is a ring of considerable graphic elegance, its power coming from composition and proportion rather than the size of any individual stone.