Hi everybody. This is my first post in Pricescope but I've been a long time lurker in this forum. I have to thank everybody for their help and insight into what we all love; diamonds. In me and my mother's search for her 25th anniversary ring we've been reading the forums here, shopping around and looking at all the jewelry out there (that was a lot of fun itself 
. We had a basic idea of what we had in mind (we were thinking of going with Leon Mege that's been really talked about in this forum) but we were introduced to an acqueintence of a friend of mine who this designer had created a beautiful ring for in the past. He's located in Los Angeles and because we live not too far away in San Marino, we drove out to visit him. Anyway we told him what we had in mind, we wanted a more classic looking piece maybe a three stone look without any halos that I've seen so much of on this forum. My mother is in her 50s and she likes the more classic looking rings. After a lot of feedback from the designer as well, he showed us some other rings, most had halos around the center and we basically picked out parts of the rings that we liked and others that we didn't. We settled on a 9.27carat I-VS1 square Radiant diamond with side stones and pave around the band of the ring. After a month of waiting my mother's ring was ready and neither of us could have imagined the piece to turn out as beautiful as it did.
I just wanted to share the ring with everybody on this forum that helped me learn more about jewelry.
I don't know if I can share the name of the designer of our ring with people yet, I need to see whether he would be comfortable with that, I don't see why he wouldn't but I just want to check with him first.
Anyway he did provide us with a couple of professional shots of the ring for our insurance appraisal and I'm including them with this post and I'm going to post some hand shots of the ring later on.
Let me know what you guys think.
Update 8-30-06
Ring: Dan Williams design: danwilliamsjewels at hotmail.com
Center: 9.27ct GIA I-VS1 with trapezoid like side stones on a hand forged platinum ring
Sylvia
. We had a basic idea of what we had in mind (we were thinking of going with Leon Mege that's been really talked about in this forum) but we were introduced to an acqueintence of a friend of mine who this designer had created a beautiful ring for in the past. He's located in Los Angeles and because we live not too far away in San Marino, we drove out to visit him. Anyway we told him what we had in mind, we wanted a more classic looking piece maybe a three stone look without any halos that I've seen so much of on this forum. My mother is in her 50s and she likes the more classic looking rings. After a lot of feedback from the designer as well, he showed us some other rings, most had halos around the center and we basically picked out parts of the rings that we liked and others that we didn't. We settled on a 9.27carat I-VS1 square Radiant diamond with side stones and pave around the band of the ring. After a month of waiting my mother's ring was ready and neither of us could have imagined the piece to turn out as beautiful as it did. I just wanted to share the ring with everybody on this forum that helped me learn more about jewelry.
I don't know if I can share the name of the designer of our ring with people yet, I need to see whether he would be comfortable with that, I don't see why he wouldn't but I just want to check with him first.
Anyway he did provide us with a couple of professional shots of the ring for our insurance appraisal and I'm including them with this post and I'm going to post some hand shots of the ring later on.
Let me know what you guys think.
Update 8-30-06
Ring: Dan Williams design: danwilliamsjewels at hotmail.com
Center: 9.27ct GIA I-VS1 with trapezoid like side stones on a hand forged platinum ring
Sylvia
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