Edwardian 18ct Gold & Platinum, Sapphire & Diamond Ring With Diamond Shaped Design

A really pretty 18ct75% pure gold (or 750 parts pure gold and 250 parts other metals) gold ring with 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… top that was made circa 1910-1920. It is an unusual 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… shaped design. In the centre is a gorgeous mid blue 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.
with small diamonds in pierced settings around it. At each 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. there is a further small sapphire. There is millgrain detail throughout. A perfect and different engagement ring.