The ring in three-quarter view: the white gold openwork mesh between the two engraved yellow gold edges

Collection Gioielli di Firenze·Anello·Florentine work, net pattern

White and yellow gold band ring with diamonds, openwork mesh between engraved borders

Name: White and yellow gold band ring with diamonds, openwork mesh between engraved borders
Brand: Anna Gioielli
SKU: A461Fb
Price: 3260.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Thirteen diamonds in the net, between two yellow gold rims engraved with the burin.

€3.260,00 A461Fb

Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.

The band is wide, and the two rims are in yellow gold: two circles engraved with the burin, one stroke after another. Between them, in white gold, runs a net pierced into round meshes, and on every crossing of the mesh a rayed rosette is engraved; in thirteen of those crossings a diamond is set. The piercing is open right through: against the light you look through the ring, and at the base, under the finger, the band goes back to solid and smooth.

Eight grams and twenty of eighteen-carat gold, divided between the two colors: the white of the net and the yellow of the rims, soldered together. The thirteen natural diamonds come to thirty-one hundredths of a carat in all, color F and clarity VVS: small stones, chosen to sit inside a mesh without breaking through it.

The material

Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.

8,20 gramsWhite and yellow gold 18kt 750‰

0,31 carats Diamonds · thirteen in the central net

Metals: White and yellow gold 18kt 750‰
Style: Florentine work, net pattern
Technique: Made entirely by hand, with piercing and burin engraving.

The diamonds

Natural. Position, cut, carats, colour and clarity.

Thirteen in the central net 0,31ct Brilliant F-VVSNatural diamonds

Front view of the band, with the diamonds spread through the mesh

The ring from above: the openwork is open and you look through the mesh

The two yellow gold circles closing the mesh above and below

The base of the band, where the white gold goes back to solid and smooth

On the slate: the contrast between the white of the mesh and the yellow of the edges

Close-up of the round-mesh openwork and of the rosettes engraved with rays

The yellow gold edge close up, engraved stroke by stroke

The ring worn, three-quarter view from above

The ring worn: how much of the finger the band covers

The ring on the goldsmith's bench, the openwork mesh before the stones are set

The workshop bench: the loupe and the brilliants waiting to be set

How it is made

The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.

Openwork: The metal is drilled and then cut out from the inside with a very fine saw, until the solid sheet becomes a design of voids. It is a process that allows no second attempt: what is taken away does not come back.
Mesh work: The piercing does not make a single hole: it makes a regular mesh, and every mesh has to carry the weight of the others. One wrong cut means weakening the whole net.
Burin engraving: The burin is a small goldsmith's chisel pushed by hand. It does not scratch: it lifts a shaving of metal and leaves a clean groove that catches the light. It is the mark that for five centuries has set the Florentine goldsmiths' school apart.
Two golds on the same piece: White and yellow have different hardnesses and soldering temperatures: mounting them together means working two metals that do not react in the same way under the flame, and making them meet without the joint showing.
Brilliant cut: Fifty-seven facets calculated so that light entering from above comes back out the same side. It is the cut that makes a diamond sparkle, and the reason a badly cut diamond stays dull.

I don't look at what others are doing: I would rather create in my own style. That is what makes our jewelry recognizable.
Fabio Gori — Anna Gioielli, Tosi

Made for you

Every ring is made in the size of the person who will wear it: we settle it together before the work begins.

The goldsmith's workshop is also the place where made-to-measure jewellery is created and family pieces are restored: if you have an idea, or something you want brought back to how it was, that is where it starts.

Ask for a made-to-measure piece

Made by

Anna Gioielli

A goldsmith's workshop in Tosi, on the slopes of the Pratomagno: Anna opened it in 1988, her sons Fabio and Francesco carry it on. Piercing, repoussé, chasing and burin engraving — the Florentine school, with the workshop in full view of the shop.

All the creations by Anna Gioielli