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Back in 2019 we bought a set of 3.60ctw blue sapphire earrings at an auction, including seeing them in person at a preview. They looked great in the catalog and in person.
For reasons we don't remember they looked so special DW didn't try them on. It was months later that DW tried them on and discovered the jeweler who made them actually worked for Hobbits.
See how much the sapphires angled to the ground catching no light at all.
This is a side view of the original setting, the entire lower half is designed to curve underneath your Hobbit ears.
It took us a couple of years to decide to do something about this, and about a month ago we approached Amy at DKJ to help solve our problem. We first asked if Amy could have the sides straightened out by force; well it turned there was not enough force on this earth to do that.
Amy suggested our best bet was to remove all the "too much stuff" at both ends, and revert to simple but sophisticated blue sapphires with the diamond halos. Here's the video Amy took with her phone of the sapphire earrings DKJ turned into something beautiful by "simple subtraction'.
Here are a couple of photos with the sapphires set first E-W and then N-S. I think prefers DW prefers set E-W.
Very kindly Amy's setter also changed the sapphire prongs from yellow to white gold to keep everything consistent. We think DKJ did an absolutely fabulous "fix" job.
For reasons we don't remember they looked so special DW didn't try them on. It was months later that DW tried them on and discovered the jeweler who made them actually worked for Hobbits.
See how much the sapphires angled to the ground catching no light at all.This is a side view of the original setting, the entire lower half is designed to curve underneath your Hobbit ears.
It took us a couple of years to decide to do something about this, and about a month ago we approached Amy at DKJ to help solve our problem. We first asked if Amy could have the sides straightened out by force; well it turned there was not enough force on this earth to do that.
Amy suggested our best bet was to remove all the "too much stuff" at both ends, and revert to simple but sophisticated blue sapphires with the diamond halos. Here's the video Amy took with her phone of the sapphire earrings DKJ turned into something beautiful by "simple subtraction'.Here are a couple of photos with the sapphires set first E-W and then N-S. I think prefers DW prefers set E-W.
Very kindly Amy's setter also changed the sapphire prongs from yellow to white gold to keep everything consistent. We think DKJ did an absolutely fabulous "fix" job.
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