This story is long overdue and a little long so please bare with me. I have been a PriceScope lurker since 2008, and have admired so many of your rings! I first heard of Steven Kirsch a few years back and followed his projects on PriceScope. Two years ago my Mother passed away from stage IV lung cancer and she left me her emerald cut diamond engagement ring. In August 2011, our oldest was working in NYC and when we went to visit I brought along my Mom’s ring hoping to see a design I liked searching the diamond district. Not really seeing what I was looking for I decided to contact Steven Kirsch, unannounced and on short notice to see if we could meet with him. He was very kind, not pushy and very likable. He suggested a couple different designs. I instantly felt very comfortable with Steven and felt a trust with him. I left that meeting with my Mom’s ring and said that I would be in contact to see if we could work out a design. After about 5 minutes my husband and I thought that we should leave the diamond ring with him and we could work out the details when we returned home. Sounds crazy I know but I just felt comfortable leaving the stone with him. I spent hours and hours on line trying to decide what I wanted for my ring. Several months later I still couldn’t come up with a design but now our family focus needed to turn to college searches for our younger DD.
With college searching behind us, still no design in mind, the end of senior year was approaching and then our lives took a very difficult turn. Our oldest DD was diagnosed with a serious illness and needed surgery and treatment. Our family’s focus became finding the best Dr.’s, and hospitals while also trying to celebrate the upcoming high school graduation. That summer came and went and then Steven sent me an email asking if I would prefer for him to ship me back my stone. I called and explained the situation with our DD and he told me to go take care of my family and he would hold my stone till whenever I was ready to work on a design.
In January, we took a last minute trip to NYC to see some shows and I contacted Steven to see if we could meet and talk about moving forward again. He was so kind and he was so understanding and concerned about everything we had been through. We exchanged ideas and I knew that I wanted a halo with bigger stones and 3 sided pave diamond band. I didn’t want it to look like an engagement ring and knew I would be wearing it as a right hand ring. I am 5’10” and wear a size 6 ½ so I knew I could pull of a bigger looking style. We came up with a split shank and halo design.
A couple of weeks later Steven sent me some information about his design and I got nervous about some of the design and was feeling overwhelmed with some of the decisions and our oldest DD had run into more complications. Steven told me to trust him and he would design me a beautiful ring and to go take care of my family. Which is exactly what I did. Once again sounds crazy but I trusted him and let him decide the rest of the details. I checked in a couple of times and several weeks later Steven told me he was finished and sent me a picture of the final project. At first when I saw the photo I worried that the halo was too big and I called and talked with Steven and he told me he knew that it might look that way in photos but IRL it was perfectly proportioned.
A few days later my ring arrived and it is beautiful! It is elegant and I think the halo enhances the beauty of the emerald cut stone. Since I didn’t have any paper work for my Mom’s stone I am not quite sure of the specs. I’m getting the ring appraised so I would have some more information.
Emerald cut stone? 1.34
? VS1
? H color
Setting:
Platinum setting
185 stones
Total diamond weight 1.73ct GVS1 melees
Total weight 3.07
Steven sent me the nicest email about how grateful he was to work with me and how he felt with everything we had gone through the least he could do was make me a beautiful ring. So if you are still with this long story I hope you can understand that I don’t think most jewelers would have done all of this for their customers. Sometimes life throws you unexpected challenges and then you meet people who do the unexpected.
With college searching behind us, still no design in mind, the end of senior year was approaching and then our lives took a very difficult turn. Our oldest DD was diagnosed with a serious illness and needed surgery and treatment. Our family’s focus became finding the best Dr.’s, and hospitals while also trying to celebrate the upcoming high school graduation. That summer came and went and then Steven sent me an email asking if I would prefer for him to ship me back my stone. I called and explained the situation with our DD and he told me to go take care of my family and he would hold my stone till whenever I was ready to work on a design.
In January, we took a last minute trip to NYC to see some shows and I contacted Steven to see if we could meet and talk about moving forward again. He was so kind and he was so understanding and concerned about everything we had been through. We exchanged ideas and I knew that I wanted a halo with bigger stones and 3 sided pave diamond band. I didn’t want it to look like an engagement ring and knew I would be wearing it as a right hand ring. I am 5’10” and wear a size 6 ½ so I knew I could pull of a bigger looking style. We came up with a split shank and halo design.
A couple of weeks later Steven sent me some information about his design and I got nervous about some of the design and was feeling overwhelmed with some of the decisions and our oldest DD had run into more complications. Steven told me to trust him and he would design me a beautiful ring and to go take care of my family. Which is exactly what I did. Once again sounds crazy but I trusted him and let him decide the rest of the details. I checked in a couple of times and several weeks later Steven told me he was finished and sent me a picture of the final project. At first when I saw the photo I worried that the halo was too big and I called and talked with Steven and he told me he knew that it might look that way in photos but IRL it was perfectly proportioned.
A few days later my ring arrived and it is beautiful! It is elegant and I think the halo enhances the beauty of the emerald cut stone. Since I didn’t have any paper work for my Mom’s stone I am not quite sure of the specs. I’m getting the ring appraised so I would have some more information.
Emerald cut stone? 1.34
? VS1
? H color
Setting:
Platinum setting
185 stones
Total diamond weight 1.73ct GVS1 melees
Total weight 3.07
Steven sent me the nicest email about how grateful he was to work with me and how he felt with everything we had gone through the least he could do was make me a beautiful ring. So if you are still with this long story I hope you can understand that I don’t think most jewelers would have done all of this for their customers. Sometimes life throws you unexpected challenges and then you meet people who do the unexpected.
Wishing your family lots of health! 
(in a good way!)
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