5 stone graduated halo??

[amsmeq]

Hi everyone

Ive been negotiating with my DH about upgrading my engagement ring and am torn between two options.

I currently have a small 3 stone G VS2 .33 .44 .33 ring set in white gold

I would like to incorporate the existing stones into a new design and think the easiest way to do this is to move to a graduated 5 stone. (.33 .44 1.2 .44 .33)

The problem is that i LOVE halos

Has anyone ever seen a Halo centred stone with graduated side stones??? and did it look over the top?

Ive looked everywhere and can find 5 stone halos but they are not graduated and all stones are haloed

Thanks in advance

 

[liaerfbv]

I've never seen anything like that, but I'm sure you could find a way to do it tastefully if you can't find a stock setting. You might be able to find a Stuller setting and have it slightly modified by a vendor also. There are so many people here who can find needles in haystacks - hopefully someone will pipe in with some options for you!

 

[kb1gra]

Hi everyone

Ive been negotiating with my DH about upgrading my engagement ring and am torn between two options.

I currently have a small 3 stone G VS2 .33 .44 .33 ring set in white gold

I would like to incorporate the existing stones into a new design and think the easiest way to do this is to move to a graduated 5 stone. (.33 .44 1.2 .44 .33)

The problem is that i LOVE halos

Has anyone ever seen a Halo centred stone with graduated side stones??? and did it look over the top?

Ive looked everywhere and can find 5 stone halos but they are not graduated and all stones are haloed

Thanks in advance

I wouldn't halo the center-- but you could halo the whole ring, as seen on this ring that's listed on loupetroop:

http://img1.loupetroop.com/photos/imgs/000/002/457/full/28248.jpg

I've seen several 3-stones on DBL before, so you may want to talk to David about a piece like this. I think that putting a halo on just the center would look weird, tbh.

 

[Dee*Jay]

Here's an example of a three stone graduated halo. If you can do it with 3 you can do it with 5, but at some point you're going to run out of finger width.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

I think a 5 stone without halo is going to be too much with a 1.2, .44 and .33. plenty of people here have full finger coverage with five .33's. So certainly you cannot halo those 5 stones and have it work. I do think you could do a three stone and halo them or not.

a 1.2 is about 6.8mm, a .44 is about 4.9mm, and a .33 is about 4.45. For the five stones, that would be 25.5mm across the top of the finger. My size 5.5 finger looks like it can take 15-18mm if the stones are curved around the top. So you need to measure to see if you can even handle the 5 stones without a halo first!

 

[Niel]

Hi everyone

Ive been negotiating with my DH about upgrading my engagement ring and am torn between two options.

I currently have a small 3 stone G VS2 .33 .44 .33 ring set in white gold

I would like to incorporate the existing stones into a new design and think the easiest way to do this is to move to a graduated 5 stone. (.33 .44 1.2 .44 .33)

The problem is that i LOVE halos

Has anyone ever seen a Halo centred stone with graduated side stones??? and did it look over the top?

Ive looked everywhere and can find 5 stone halos but they are not graduated and all stones are haloed

Thanks in advance

I wouldn't halo the center-- but you could halo the whole ring, as seen on this ring that's listed on loupetroop:

http://img1.loupetroop.com/photos/imgs/000/002/457/full/28248.jpg

I've seen several 3-stones on DBL before, so you may want to talk to David about a piece like this. I think that putting a halo on just the center would look weird, tbh.

That's the exact thing I was thinking. Halo only the center or halo the. All in one band of pave. I'm sorry if I missed it but what's the size of your finger?

 

[Niel]

so ill ignore the idea that 1.2 ct might be a bit too big for this design, but in general, I believe the side stones would have to be incorporated into the halo to accomplish this. here is a terrible photoshop (actually i use a free version called gimp, so thats how cool i am ) of what i am talking about


this then reduces the issue of taking up vertical finger coverage, which actually does matter. As a five stone will usually occupy all of that vertical space. ( a nice problem to have!)
heres a photo of someone using larger stones as a part of there halo, in real life, as another example