Ring Types

The style of a ring is its architecture — how many diamonds it carries and how they are arranged around the hand. Before the metal, before the setting, this is the decision that gives a ring its character. Each silhouette below is a classic, refined over generations, and each carries a feeling of its own.

Solitaire

A single diamond, alone and unrivalled. The solitaire is the purest statement in all of jewellery: nothing competes with the stone, nothing distracts from it. Raised on claws or held in a clean band, it puts the whole weight of the piece on the cut, the colour and the fire of one diamond. It is the ring most people picture when they close their eyes — and the hardest to improve upon.

Pavé

A surface paved with tiny diamonds, set so close that the metal beneath them all but disappears and the ring seems dusted in light. Pavé runs along the band, around a centre stone or across the shoulders, adding a low, continuous shimmer that flatters whatever it surrounds. Micro-pavé takes the idea to its finest grain, the stones so small and so tightly held that the band reads as pure brilliance.

Channel-Set

A row of diamonds sunk flush between two walls of metal, edge to edge, with nothing breaking the line. The channel-set ring offers an unbroken ribbon of light with a smooth, snag-free surface — elegant, practical and quietly luxurious. It suits the band itself or the shoulders of a centre stone, and it wears as gracefully as it looks.

Sidestone

A principal diamond flanked by smaller stones at its shoulders, lending it scale and a sense of occasion. Sidestones draw the eye inward toward the centre and make the whole ring read larger and more present on the hand. The flanking stones can echo the centre’s shape or play against it — tapered baguettes for a clean architectural line, round brilliants for added sparkle.

Three-Stone

A central diamond set between two companions of its own — read by many as past, present and future, the three chapters of a shared life. The three-stone ring is at once symbolic and generous: three diamonds in conversation, the centre raised between two that frame and lift it. It carries more brilliance than a solitaire and a meaning that has made it a favourite for engagements and milestones alike.

Tension

A diamond held by the spring of the metal alone, seeming to float between two ends of the band with no visible support. The tension ring is the most modern of the silhouettes — sculptural, minimal, and quietly astonishing to the eye. With light reaching the stone from nearly every side, it reads as a single gesture, the diamond suspended in air.

Halo

A centre diamond ringed by a circle of smaller stones, a halo of light that frames it and makes it sing. The surrounding stones catch and throw light inward, so the centre appears larger and more luminous than it would stand alone. The halo is romantic and full of presence — the most generous of the classic silhouettes, and the one that gives a stone the grandest stage.