Solitaire Quinze
A one carat round brilliant in four hand-cut claws, on a shank of the same body of metal.
- ReferenceSR-1102-01
- Stone1.02 ct round brilliant, D, VS1
- Carat1.02
- MetalPlatinum 950
- CollectionSolitaires
€26,400
Each piece is finished by one setter and leaves with their name on the certificate. Nothing here is made twice — where a design is repeated, the stone is not.
- Table56.5%
- Crown34.6°
- Pavilion40.8°
- Facets58
This stone is normally traced live from its own recorded proportions. Your device is being spared the arithmetic — the measured angles are listed alongside.
This stone, not a stock one
The gem beside this text is not a photograph and not a video. It is built from the proportions recorded against this piece and traced facet by facet, so the light coming back out of it is the light this geometry actually returns.
Cut is the one variable a photograph cannot show and the one that costs the most. A stone a degree shallow in the pavilion leaks light through its own back and goes dull in the hand, which is exactly the thing a retouched product shot hides.
- Stone Ø6.54 mm
- Piece Ø10.80 mm
- Price€26,400
- Lead timeFour to nine weeks
Actually this big
The circle is the girdle of the stone at 6.54 mm; the finished piece measures 10.80 mm across. If you have set your screen against a bank card, this is life size. If you have not, it is the browser's guess of 96 pixels to the inch — and it is almost certainly wrong.
The Quinze is named for a count, not a year. The head is offered up to the stone fifteen times between the first cut and the last polish, and the ring is not finished until the fifteenth reading is the same as the fourteenth.
The four claws are carved from the same cast body as the shank rather than soldered to it. A soldered claw is quicker to make and it is the joint that fails first, usually thirty years later, usually while the ring is being taken off. The shoulders taper from 2.1mm at the head to 1.8mm at the back so the band sits down between the fingers instead of riding up.
The stone is cut a little steep in the pavilion and a little open in the table — 40.8° against 56.5% — which returns slightly less light straight up the table and rather more of it at the angle you actually see a ring from, which is from across a table, at arm’s length, at about thirty degrees.
- Enquiries[email protected]
- Telephone+33 1 42 60 00 00
- ReplyWithin two working days
- RegardingSR-1102-01
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