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On 7/10/2003 3:26
4 PM dancingmelimel wrote:
Does the lack of crispness in the engraving bother you?...
I actually can't find a 1 carat version of this setting on their site. Hmph....
Glitterata, what style of wedding band do you wear with your ering? Does it sit flush, and if not, does it bother you?
, Melissa
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Melissa,
The lack of crispness only bothers me when I'm inspecting the setting obsessively through a loupe, and then only very slightly. With naked eyes (or, in my case, eyeglasses), it looks lovely.
I believe Leigh may not have put all his settings on his website. It's worth asking him when he gets back from vacation. Are you anywhere near NYC? I'm glad I went to see the settings in person. I was having trouble deciding from the website, but once I saw them I knew immediately which I liked best. (Of course, I still had to try them all on.)
Actually, this ring isn't my ering-- it's my grandmother's, or rather, the diamond from it. She had it reset for me in a necklace when I graduated from college. (Before that it spent many years as a pinky ring on my grandfather's finger.) But I don't really wear necklaces, so after I got married, I had it reset. I chose a setting from the period when Grandma got engaged--I wish I had her original setting, but it's long gone. (Nobody in my family even remembers what it looked like.)
Sometimes I wear the diamond ring with my own wedding band, which is plain beveled platinum, 3mm wide, but it looks a little too thick and modern next to the old style setting. Sometimes I wear the diamond ring on my right hand with Grandma's wedding band, a more delicate, 2mm engraved platinum band with a couple of tiny diamonds in it--they go together very well. Which is one of the reasons I chose that particular setting in the first place. And sometimes I wear it on its own. I think it looks happiest with Grandma's wedding band.
No, it doesn't sit completely flush with a straight band, but I actually like that. It's still pretty close to flush, and it looks much more authentic this way. Back in the 1920s they didn't make rings fit together like puzzle pieces. I find today's obsession with flushness kind of silly. If I wanted my rings to look like one ring, I'd go ahead and wear just one ring. To me, the symbol of the marriage is the wedding band; I want it to stand up proud and tall on its own. (That's how I see it, anyway. No offence meant to all you flush-ringed ladies.)