Most engagement rings are not gym-safe. I'll say that flat out. The insurance companies see the claims data every January: bent prongs, lost melee, chipped...
Pull the ring off and wash the area with mild soap. This is not a time for jewelry. Most reactions are irritant contact dermatitis - soap, lotion, or the...
It starts as a little redness, then maybe some itching or peeling. By the time a client emails me, they’re usually worried they’re allergic to their...
Jake came in last August, a week before a three-day backpacking trip through the Wind River Range. He'd been planning the proposal for months, and he pulled...
Last March, a client named Rachel walked in with a ring her fiancé had bought from a big online retailer. The center stone was a half carat round, set in...
Most people do this wrong. Not maliciously - they just don't think about it until a prong is bent or a diamond comes loose. A few months ago a client named...
Rachel came in last fall with a ring she'd owned for three months. The center diamond sat nearly 7mm off her finger-a standard peg head mounted on a 1.6mm...
From two feet away? Nothing. Not a thing. I've set thousands of stones and I can't tell them apart with my eyes alone. No jeweler can, not reliably. The...
Yes. Almost always yes. I've reset hundreds of stones in twenty-two years and I can count on one hand the number of times the answer was no - and the answer...
Marcus texted me at 11:14 on a Tuesday last winter. The message was short: “She found it.” He’d hidden the 2.1-carat oval in a shoebox-not the sock drawer...
One essay, one object, one quiet recommendation — delivered slowly, the way these things ought to be.