French Art Deco Sapphire & Diamond Ring

A wonderful original Art DecoA movement within the arts between the two Great Wars (1920-1935) across Europe and the US, characterized by its clean, geometric designs. The aesthetic was intended to celebrate an age of progress and the modernity of the machine. ring. It has an 18ct75% pure gold (or 750 parts pure gold and 250 parts other metals) gold shankThe circle of metal that attaches to the decorative part of a ring and encircles the finger. and 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 and is set with naturalA natural stone is called such because it has not been subjected to any treatments.  sapphires and diamonds. The centre 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… measures 20 pointsA 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. and is surrounded by graded rose diamonds interspersed with rectangular sapphires. The decoration on the platinum is called “Millgrain” which literally means a thousand beads. It is an attractive and time consuming work consisting of strings of tiny bead shapes on the platinum surrounding the stones.  It is a great design and would make a lovely engagement ring.