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Engagement Rings

Guides, stories, and answers about lab-grown diamonds, moissanite, and fine jewellery — written by our atelier.

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Pear and Marquise Moissanite Toi et Moi Ring: A Buyer's Guide

What a toi et moi ring is, why pairing a pear with a marquise works, how its three pointed tips are protected,...

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Strip the decoration off an emerald cut and four cropped corners become the whole design. Where the prongs belong, why the shank...

Pears get no cut grade, so everything that separates a good one from a bad one is uncheckable on paper. The three...

Twelve specifications that make a ring better without making it more expensive — two of them actually reduce the price. All decided...

Everyone publishes questions to ask a jeweller. The inverse test is quicker and harder to fake — listen to what you are...

Luxury in jewellery is three separate things wearing one word. Materials are commodities, craft is bench time, brand is infrastructure. Buy the...

A step cut is a window into the stone, so it forgives nothing. Why clarity matters here, which ratios work, and the...

An alternative makes size affordable but does not make the ring stronger. The finger checks to run first, and the five structural...

A halo adds about 2.5mm of apparent width for less than the equivalent centre stone. It also adds forty settings and forty...

Two stones on one band brings decisions a solitaire never does — matching by face area, which way up it sits, why...

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