Replica antiqu setting

[dancingmelimel]

Ooooh, Glitterata your ering is gorgeous! I wish that I liked a the look of a larger band on me....There's so much more room for interesting design!

Mara, the price on Antiqueengagementrings.com is about $725, and it's for platinum. Very good deal! However, a few hundred more either to them or to another jeweler to make it exactly what I want would be well worth it.

Glitterata, do the prongs have little diamonds set into them? If so, I think I would just have the top split like you have. If not, I might consider a change. Don't know offhand.

As soon as they are back from vacation I will definitely be on the phone with them. Monday seems a long time away right now. I have a gorgeous diamond sitting in a box. I want to wear it! Now!

-Melissa

 

[Mara]

I think the price went up from when we were considering it, could have sworn in Dec of last year it was something like $625!

Oh well!

 

[nychic]

dancingmelimel -

i live in NY and plan to visit them (antiqueengagementrings.com) next week. there are several other "antique" jewelers in the NY area as well. i'll keep you updated.

in the meantime, check out gordonclark.com as well as www.richardlandi.com. i saw some rings in denver last week and really liked them. great detail work, a lot nicer than tacori.

 

[dancingmelimel]

Nychic,

I would love to hear your experience after you visit them. I just checked out both of the websites you mentioned, and both have a couple of settings I'd consider, but nothing that shouted at me. Any idea of the price ranges for their settings?

-Melissa

 

[nychic]

The Richard Landi setting that I liked ws $2400. Another one I was looking at was $1800. Not sure about the Gordon Clark's settings. Nothing really screamed out to me, so i didn't bother to ask about pricing.

 

[glitterata]

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On 7/11/2003 4:49:26 PM dancingmelimel wrote:

Ooooh, Glitterata your ering is gorgeous! I wish that I liked a the look of a larger band on me....There's so much more room for interesting design!


Mara, the price on Antiqueengagementrings.com is about $725, and it's for platinum. Very good deal! However, a few hundred more either to them or to another jeweler to make it exactly what I want would be well worth it.


Glitterata, do the prongs have little diamonds set into them? If so, I think I would just have the top split like you have. If not, I might consider a change. Don't know offhand.


As soon as they are back from vacation I will definitely be on the phone with them. Monday seems a long time away right now. I have a gorgeous diamond sitting in a box. I want to wear it! Now!

-Melissa
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Melissa,

The only diamonds in the setting are the six you see from above (plus the biggie, of course). When I went to pick out my setting, Leigh showed me a very similar one--an antique original--which he was about to reproduce. He told me he'd be adding diamonds along the edge of the basket leading to the prongs, if you know what I mean. Sounds like maybe what you're looking for? You might ask him about it.

The setting cost $650 or $675 when I bought it; the price went up the next week. He explained that the price of platinum had been rising. "So I guess I should have bought this a year ago, right?" I asked. "No," he said, "I didn't have that setting a year ago."

Actually, neither one is my ering. The deco one is my other grandmother's ering, in the original setting from 1929. (I don't have an ering of my own--how many diamond rings can one woman wear?--and besides, my husband hates diamonds. Believe it or not, I love him anyway.)

 

[glitterata]

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On 7/11/2003 4:31:47 PM Mara wrote:

glitter those rings are beautiful! Is the more delicate one on the right from antiqueengagementrings.com? I considered that setting, but it looks so much more beefy online!

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Mara,

Yes, that's the antiqueengagementrings.com setting on the right. I think you were right not to go with this setting--it's more delicate than what you were looking for. The band narrows to just 1 mm on the palm side.

 

[dancingmelimel]

Glitterata! The hatred of diamonds is always difficult for me to comprehend, but you're clearly doing extremely well without an ering anyway!

One millimeter is pretty darn tiny. My current setting is just below 2mm at its narrowest point. I'm thinking of getting a wedding band that's just 1.5 or so, though. Hmmmmm.

Kellbee, is there any way you can put me in touch with your jeweler before his shop opens, just so I could ask him a few questions?

-Melissa