The Lead Essay
What if my girlfriend accidentally finds the ring before I propose?
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...
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...
I had a client last August-Elena-who was planning a proposal on a sailboat off the Amalfi coast. She was dead set on a delicate 0.8mm pavé band with a...
The short list: an appraisal, a receipt or bill of sale, good photographs, and your policy paperwork. The slightly longer list, which I give every client...
The word “trend” makes me wince, but I understand the question. Clients come in holding saved Instagram folders, and I spend a lot of time untangling what...
Rose gold is a perfectly reasonable choice for an everyday engagement ring, and I make more of them now than I did ten years ago. It's durable. It ages...
Last October a client named Ben flew from Seattle to Boston with a 2.7 carat oval diamond in his carry-on. He’d wrapped the ring in a sock, stuffed it in a...
Daniel walked into the studio on a humid July afternoon with his left hand held up like a wounded bird. The ring-a 2.8mm comfort-fit 14k white gold band-had...
Lauren came in on a Thursday morning last March, holding her engagement ring a little too carefully. The center diamond, a 0.90 carat round, was still in...
No. A half-carat is not too small, and I wish fewer clients felt like they needed to ask. The question itself is a weird artifact of the last fifteen years...
Last month a client named Daniel forwarded me six listings for near-identical 1.5‑carat round diamonds. Every stone was graded F/VS2, every one claimed...
I get this question about once a week, and it always starts the same way. Someone walks in holding a ring they found in a drawer or inherited from an aunt....
We started this journal because the most interesting thing about a ring isn’t the ring. It’s the choice to make one in the first place.
One essay, one object, one quiet recommendation — delivered slowly, the way these things ought to be.