One of a kind ring handmade in Belgium, crafted with unparalleled precision and care.

This exceptional piece features a magnificent fancy orange brown marquise shape diamond as its centerpiece.
The diamond is surrounded by a carefully curated selection of precious stones, including Burmese poppy red spinels, rubies, and white diamonds. These stones complement each other to create a stunning harmony. What’s more, the spinels maintain their striking red hue even in low light, making them an invaluable addition to this breathtaking ring.

The ring has been meticulously crafted with a protective setting that, while appearing to leave the points of the marquise diamond exposed, ingeniously incorporates an extended gold base that mirrors the shape of the diamond. This base extends slightly beyond the tips of the diamond, ensuring that any impact will make contact with the metal rather than the diamond itself. This design detail provides an extra layer of security for the stone’s most vulnerable points without compromising the elegance of the exposed look.

18K Rose gold 7,3 g.
GIA Certified Fancy Deep Orange brown Marquise shape diamond centerstone 2,25ct. VS2.
Unheated poppie red spinel from Mogok, Burma: 2,59ct.
white brilliant-cut diamonds 0,1 ct.,
Rubies 0,14ct.

Handmade the traditional way. size EU 51, US 5,5. Resizable to most ring sizes. Joke Quick offers free resizing, this will take a few days extra handling time.

The Spinel, The Lady of The Semi-Precious Gemstones:

After the discovery around 1300 of the Marco Polo routes, which linked for the West to the East overland, there was no real market for gemstones. Only rich merchants, supported by powerful Kings, could travel to the East and developed a long-term relationship with the Maharajas of India.
One of most famous merchants at the end of the 17th century was Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a French businessman, who lived in Antwerp and was an advisor of French King Louis XIV. He was one of the only Western persons who had contact with the powerful Maharaja’s to search the most beautiful gemstones for the French Sun King.
India was till the 18th century, the only source of precious gemstones. Diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies and all kind of coloured gemstones were in the possession of these Indian Maharaja’s.
Not only was the travel from the West to the East, an expensive occupation, but the knowledge of gems was very basic. Only the eye of the connoisseur could distinguish the different qualities in gemstones.
Witness the famous “Ruby of the Black Prince” which has decorated for centuries the English Crown, or one of the oldest gemstones of the French crown, “the Côte de Bretagne”, were two splendid spinels and for a long time identified as a ruby balais.
Even later, it was not always easy to distinguish them because, in the 19th century, new mines in Burma, Siam and Sri Lanka were discovered where in the same mine rubies and spinels were found.
Only in 1830, the study of precious stones -better known as mineralogy- was developed for the first time. From then on, mineralogists could separate the corundum (the family of the rubies) from spinel, they knew there was a difference in composition and hardness.
So, red to reddish gems were identified as “a kind of” ruby and called a ruby spinel, spinel ruby. But the most beautiful ones, with an intense red colour but nearly a ruby, were named ruby balais. These deep coloured red spinels were even accorded a value as a precious stone.

Which famous semi-precious gemstone belongs to the most fabulous collections in jewellery history? Only the spinel does
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