Front view: the square openwork dome, with the Princess diamond in the bezel at the centre

Collection Prestige·Anello·Florentine mesh work

Prestige ring in white and yellow gold, openwork mesh with GIA certified Princess diamond

Name: Prestige ring in white and yellow gold, openwork mesh with GIA certified Princess diamond
Brand: Anna Gioielli
SKU: A919b
Price: 6070.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Thirty points of Princess at the center of the net, color E, GIA certified.

€6.070,00 A919b

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

The head of the ring is a square dome with beveled corners, and it is not solid: the metal is pierced right through in a close mesh, and in many of those meshes a brilliant is set. Across the center runs a lozenge frame in yellow gold, made of small round rings one beside the other, and inside the lozenge a Princess-cut diamond sits in a square setting. On the two shoulders, where the dome comes down onto the shank, there is a yellow gold rosette with a diamond in the middle; the shank is engraved with a burin right round under the finger.

Thirteen grams ten of eighteen-carat gold, white for the net and yellow for the lozenge and the rosettes. The Princess at the center weighs thirty points of a carat, color E and clarity VVS2, and for those two figures there is a GIA report. The brilliants set into the piercing come to fifty-one points in all, color F-G and clarity VVS. Under the dome there is no back: looking at the ring edge-on you see through it.

The material

Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.

13,10 gramsWhite gold 18kt 750‰ with yellow gold inserts

0,30 carats Diamonds · center

0,51 carats Diamonds · in the net piercing

Metals: White gold 18kt 750‰ with yellow gold inserts
Style: Florentine mesh work
Technique: Entirely artisan-made, with burin engraving.

The diamonds

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

Center 0,30ct Princess E-VVS2Natural diamond · GIA certified

In the net piercing 0,51ct Brilliant F-G · VVSNatural diamonds, total carats

Certificate GIA-certified center diamond

Close-up of the openwork mesh and of the lozenge frame in yellow gold

The top seen from above, with the brilliants set in the openings of the mesh

The square bezel of the Princess, between the small yellow gold rings of the lozenge

Close-up of the dome: the dense weave of openings and stones

Three-quarter view from above: the dome and the shank running down

The ring standing: the yellow gold rosettes on the shoulders

Three-quarter view from the left, with the whole shank in view

Front view on axis: the height of the dome and the circle of the band

From behind, in three-quarter view: how far the dome projects beyond the shank

Shot from above and from behind: the top and the ring of the band

The inside: the openwork goes right through, and under the dome the metal is engraved

The ring on the finger, in three-quarter view: how high it stands off the hand

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 from the inside with a very fine piercing saw, until the solid sheet becomes a design of voids. It is a technique 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 of them, and every mesh has to carry the weight of the others. Getting one cut wrong means weakening the whole net.
Burin engraving: The burin is a goldsmith's graver pushed by hand. It does not scratch: it lifts a chip of metal and leaves a clean groove that catches the light. It is the mark that for five centuries has distinguished the Florentine goldsmith's school.
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 the same way under the flame, and making them meet without the joint showing.
Princess cut: A square cut with the facets of the brilliant. It was born in the 1970s to waste less rough: from an octahedron you get much more of it than from a round, where the corners end up as dust. The weak point is the corners, which stay sharp: that is where a knock chips the stone, and for that reason the setting takes it on all four sides.
Brilliant cut: Fifty-seven facets calculated so that the light entering from above comes back from the same side. It is the cut that makes a diamond sparkle, and the reason a badly cut diamond stays dull.
GIA certification: The Gemological Institute of America is the laboratory that in the 1950s defined the color and clarity scale used today all over the world. A GIA report is not a seller's guarantee: it is the measurement of a third party with no interest in the sale.

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 to the size of the person who will wear it: we settle it together before 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.

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