10/03/2025
Five Generations in One Ring
Anne’s bespoke creation began with a lovely pile of diamonds and some family birthstones! She had some family gold from past generations that she wanted made into a new bespoke gold family birthstones ring.
Anne wanted a bespoke ring designed and made using her own sentimental gold, she wanted it set with new diamonds and birthstones, representing her family members.
She made an appointment and visited our Shaftesbury Design Studio to discuss ideas with Louise. Anne and her husband often holiday on cruise ships, Jeff was keen for Anne to have a statement piece to take with her.
Louise gathered a selection of birthstones and sat with Anne whilst she hand picked the ones that she liked the best. They discussed different shapes and cuts of gemstones and decided on round brilliant cut diamonds and marquis cut birthstones.
Anne wanted birthstones for herself, her husband Jeff, her son and her daughter. The five diamonds represent her grandchildren. Anne chose pink Garnet for January over red because she felt that this particular colour sat with her other family birthstones better. She chose a bright blue Aquamarine for March, a mid green Emerald for May, and a rich purple Tanzanite for December.
Louise talked through a few different gemstone layouts and Anne chose the one that she liked the best. Anne liked the idea of a flower design with the gemstones as the petals.
We created two different CAD images for her to view; based upon the stone layout she had chosen. CAD is a powerful computer program that allows us to create jewellery designs and show photo-realistic images to our customers. Changes to designs can easily be made, before any precious metals are cast.
Anne will be wearing this show-stopper on cruise ships around the world – so elegance was key to her design!
It was the second design that Anne liked the best, using small claws to hold the outer round diamonds in gold petals – that mirrored the shape of the marquise birthstones she had chosen.
Louise was keen to add some outer leaves to this design, as she felt this would soften the design slightly. After a quick sketch to illustrate where these would go, Anne agreed that this addition would look good.
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