Men's 18K white gold ring, baguette shoulders — 104
Diamonds & Engagement Rings
Men's 18K white gold ring, square head — 106
Men's 18K white gold ring, wide baguettes — 110
Men's 18K white gold ring, champagne centre — 122
Men's 18K white gold wide band, triple baguette — 147
Three-stone engagement ring, 18K white gold — 148
Halo engagement ring, 18K white gold — 149
Solitaire engagement ring, 18K white gold — 151
Diamond knowledge
Are lab-grown diamonds real diamonds
Chemically and optically identical, and ordinary testers cannot tell them apart. The real differences are price, origin, and what happens the day you want to sell.
Ring buying guide
18K or 14K: which gold to choose
18K is softer with a richer colour, 14K is harder and about twenty percent cheaper. Which is right depends on the setting, the wearer occupation, and where in the world you are.
Ring buying guide
Buying a semi-mount and choosing your own stone
A semi-mount is a finished ring waiting for its centre stone. Buying this way separates two decisions that usually get bundled together, and leaves the door open to upgrading later.
Ring buying guide
What to watch for when choosing matching wedding bands
A matching pair does not have to look identical, and forcing them to match usually ruins the ring on the smaller hand. What must match is the metal — get that wrong and it shows within a few years.
Ring buying guide
White gold, platinum or rose gold
Three metals that look very different on the hand, wear very differently, and demand very different upkeep. One of the three needs periodic maintenance that most buyers never hear about until their ring turns yellow.
Jewelry care
Cleaning your jewelry at home
Warm water and a drop of mild soap handle ninety percent of jewellery cleaning. What matters more is the list of things never to use, and the pieces that must never be soaked.
Diamond knowledge
How cut creates a diamond fire
Why two stones with identical carat, colour and clarity can look completely different. The answer is in the angles, and Cut is the only C decided by human hands.
Jewelry care
When to replate the rhodium on a white gold ring
The rhodium on a white gold ring wears through and lets the yellow beneath show. That is normal wear, not a defect — but leaving it too long means each replating thins the shank.
Diamond knowledge
GIA, IGI, or no certificate at all
The same stone can be graded two grades apart by two different labs, and that gap is enough to make you think you found a bargain when you did not. Here is how to read a grading report properly.
Ring buying guide
Choosing an engagement ring setting
Solitaire, halo, three-stone, bezel — each setting suits a different hand and a different life. Here is how to choose for the wearer rather than for the prettiest photo online.
Ring buying guide
Eternity versus half eternity rings
One is set all the way round, the other only across the top. The visual gap is small; the gap in durability, comfort and resizability is far wider than most people expect.
Jewelry care
Storing jewellery properly
Most scratches on jewellery happen not while wearing it but while storing it all in one box. Diamond scratches everything, including another diamond.
Ring buying guide
How to find your ring size
Fingers do not hold one size through the day, through the year, or across seasons. Here is how to measure at home and get it right, when to measure, and why to round up when you land between sizes.
Ring buying guide
Engraving inside a ring: what to put there
The inside of a shank holds only fifteen to twenty-five characters, and the number depends on the band width. Two engraving methods give very different results in how long the words survive.
Diamond knowledge
The diamond 4C standard, explained
Carat, Colour, Clarity, Cut — the four letters that set the price of a diamond. They do not matter equally, and the order you should prioritise them in is not the order a salesperson usually recites.
Ring buying guide
Mens rings: wide band or slim
Band width for a mens ring should follow the finger, not a photo online, and there is a simple ratio for it. The surface finish matters as much as the width, yet almost nobody asks about it.
Jewelry care
Signs your ring needs prong work now
A stone almost always warns you before it falls out, through three very specific signs you can check at home in a minute. Retipping prongs costs a few hundred thousand dong; replacing a lost stone costs hundreds of times that.
Diamond knowledge
Why diamond prices jump at carat marks
A 0.99ct and a 1.00ct differ by about half a millimetre in diameter, which nobody can see — yet the price gap can reach twenty percent. This is the easiest saving in the entire diamond-buying process.
Diamond knowledge
What makes fancy colour diamonds different
In a white diamond, colour is a flaw and less of it costs more. In a fancy diamond the logic inverts completely: stronger colour means higher value, and Clarity almost stops mattering.