Cathedral solitaire
$12,629 to make
“a 1.5 carat oval diamond on a plain platinum band, but make the shoulders sweep up to it”
Describe the ring.
Watch it get made.
Say it the way you'd say it across a counter. It's designed in front of you in full 3D — cut to the real 57 facets, not a shiny blob — and priced from the metal and the stones it would actually take to make. No account, no email, nothing for sale.
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Or borrow one of these
Most 3D rings are a shiny lump.
This one is cut.
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57 facets, at the right angles
Table, eight bezels, eight stars, sixteen upper girdles, sixteen lower girdles, eight pavilion mains, culet. Crown 34.5°, pavilion 40.75°, table 57% — Tolkowsky's numbers. Sparkle is geometry, not a texture, and light really is traced through those facets three times, once per colour, which is why moissanite throws rainbows here that a diamond doesn't.
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Priced off the object
The band is measured, turned into grams at the alloy's real density, and quoted at spot. Stones follow the trade's price-per-carat curve, where a two-carat costs far more than two one-carats. Then you can see the same ring with a lab centre, or moissanite, with nothing else moved — so the premium is a number instead of an argument.
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Say what's wrong with it
Thinner band. Warmer gold. Sit it lower. Six prongs instead of four. Say it and the ring changes in front of you, and every version stays where you left it, so you can go back to the one from four changes ago.