Most of what people think about how to clean an engagement ring at home is wrong, and the wrong advice is usually what brings a ring to my bench. Last March...
It's not about more light. It's about better contrast. An extra sparkly diamond photo needs less light, not more. Most people photographing a diamond turn...
I don't believe in luck. I believe in ring shanks, knuckles, and gravity. You want to know if it's okay to try on someone else's engagement ring for luck....
A ring that slips on at 8 a.m. can turn into something that feels too tight by 6 p.m. Fingers change size constantly. Heat, salt, hormones, and plain old...
A loose diamond rarely falls out without warning. It gives you a week, sometimes two, of small signals before the prong lets go. You can tell if your...
A 1.5 carat equivalent round moissanite has a refractive index of about 2.65 and a dispersion of 0.104. Diamond sits at 2.42 and 0.044. Those numbers...
Most people will tell you a three-stone engagement ring symbolizes past, present, and future . That line came from a De Beers campaign around 2001, and it...
Last March a client named Daniel sat in my studio with a ring his fiancée handed back to him after two days. Not the proposal. The ring. He kept apologizing...
Most engagement ring damage happens at home, not out in the world. A ring gets dropped on a tile floor while being cleaned, or left on a nightstand where a...
Three pieces of paper matter when you buy an engagement ring. The rest is padding. The paperwork you should get when buying an engagement ring starts with...
One essay, one object, one quiet recommendation — delivered slowly, the way these things ought to be.