Portuguese Art Deco Platinum & Diamond Ring With Small Diamonds Around The Edge

This is a beautiful 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… ring that was made in the 1920s in Portugal. It has been clawA precious metal prong used to hold a gemstone in place. set with lovely bright white old European cutGemstones cut in this style have a smaller table than the round brilliant and the overall depth is greater. This style of cutting was popular in the 19th Century and is the direct predecessor to the modern round Brilliant Cut. Similar to the Old Mine Cut. 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… that weighs just under one and a half caratsThe unit of weight for a diamond or other gemstone and also for a pearl. Abbreviated ‘ct’, 1 carat is equal to 0.2 grams. In reference to gold, a unit of purity or fineness of gold and gold alloy, expressed as a number out of 24 parts by weight, e.g. ’24 carat’ signifies pure gold, ’18 carat’ 18/24th gold in the alloy, et cetera.  Also abbreviated as ‘c…. It is surrounded by ten single cutA round stone with just 18 facets, top and bottom, used only on very small stones. diamonds set in to a petal design. The sides of the galleryA strip of metal that is pierced with a continuing pattern, often framing vertical lozenge-shaped openings within an upper and lower band. Such strips are used by jewellers to make a claw setting for a finger ring after slicing the strip horizontally so that it becomes a series of points which hold the stone. The complete gallery is called ‘closet’ and the h… have been engraved with a scroll design that continues down the shouldersThe point on a ring where the central section meets the shank or band, often carved, decorated or inlaid with small diamond accent stones.. The ring is accompanied by a gemmological report stating that the diamonds are naturalA natural stone is called such because it has not been subjected to any treatments.  stones (centre stone: colour approx H-I / clarity approx SI2) with an estimated total weight of 1.60 carats. It is such a pretty look and would make an ideal engagement ring.