Marte ring in domed silver band, round perforated dome with raised dots

Above the finger the band swells into a round dome: it rises at the center, falls away on both sides and narrows behind into a low shank, so the ring has a front and a back. The dome is not solid — it is a silver shell of a single wall, and the wall is pierced right through: looking inside the ring you see the light coming in through the voids on the opposite side. They are roundish voids but never round, all of different sizes, and the metal remaining between one and the next runs like a net of ridges. At every knot of the net there is a raised bead, re-polished, standing out from the ground. The recesses, on the other hand, stay oxidized almost to black: from a distance the top reads as a dark stippled with pale. Inside, against the finger, the wall is flattened, and the design of the net carries on lower and narrower right under the finger.

Ten grams and twenty of silver at nine hundred and twenty-five thousandths, and all of it is in the shell: inside it is hollow, and that is the reason a ring of this bulk can be worn. Among the silver Marte pieces it is the same idea in a different size, and what separates them is the shape of the top — the sphere in the same collection closes a shell round on every side and weighs fifteen grams and twenty, the dome cut flat on top weighs twelve and forty-five and has smooth ridges, the two straight bands do not swell at all. Here the curve is lower and wider, it ends round, and on every knot there is a bead. On a curved shell every void is opened on a surface that runs away under the tool, and behind it there is nothing to rest against: what holds the ring up is only the solid metal remaining between one void and the next, and where too much is taken away the wall gives at exactly that point. The company offers it for women. The presentation box is included, and on request the same model is made in gold.