Guides
Comparisons for buyers weighing options
Straight comparisons with the trade-offs left in: vintage against new and lab-grown, solitaire against halo and cluster, gold against platinum.
Vintage vs new vs lab-grown engagement rings
Three genuinely different propositions. What each one is good at, and who should buy which.
7 min read
Solitaire vs halo vs cluster
Three ways to spend the same money, and what each one actually gives you on the hand.
7 min read
Gold vs platinum settings
Two metals that age in opposite directions, and what that means for an antique setting.
7 min read
Written in the workshop
Everything here is written by the people who buy and restore these pieces
No stock copy and no invented history: if a fact is not on the piece or in its paperwork, we say so.
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