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How to Insure Your Engagement Ring in Singapore

You spent months deciding on the ring. You chose the diamond carefully, designed the setting, and watched it come to life. The last thing anyone wants to think about in that moment is what happens ...

Coloured Gemstone Engagement Rings Singapore: Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald

The assumption that an engagement ring must feature a white diamond is a relatively recent convention. For most of jewellery history, coloured gemstones — sapphires, rubies, emeralds — were the sto...

Asscher Cut Diamonds Singapore: The Step-Cut Stone Making a Comeback

The Asscher cut is one of the most architecturally distinctive diamond shapes in existence. Square with deeply cut corners, it belongs to the step-cut family — the same family as the emerald cut — ...

East-West Ring Settings Singapore: When the Stone Goes Sideways

Most engagement rings are oriented the same way: the diamond points up, the length of the stone running from knuckle to base of finger. The east-west setting flips this entirely. The stone is rotat...

Toi et Moi Rings Singapore: The Two-Stone Trend Explained

Toi et moi — French for "you and me" — is one of the oldest and most romantic ring concepts in jewellery history. Napoleon Bonaparte gave Joséphine a toi et moi ring in 1796. Ariana Grande wore one...

The Proposal Ring and the Engagement Ring: Do They Have to Be the Same?

The conventional expectation is that the ring presented at the proposal is the engagement ring that will be worn from that moment onward. This works well when you know exactly what your partner wan...

Diamond Inclusions Explained: Feathers, Crystals, Clouds and What They Mean

Every diamond grading certificate lists the inclusions present in a specific stone. The terms — feathers, crystals, clouds, needles, twinning wisps — describe very different things in terms of what...

Buying an Engagement Ring as a Surprise: How to Get It Right

Buying an engagement ring without your partner’s input is one of the more logistically involved things a person undertakes. You are making design decisions on behalf of someone else, guessing a siz...

East-West Ring Settings: The Case for a Horizontal Diamond

The east-west setting orients the centre stone horizontally across the finger rather than vertically along it. Where a traditional engagement ring points the length of an oval or pear toward the na...

Salt and Pepper Diamonds: What They Are and Who They Are For

A salt and pepper diamond is one that contains visible inclusions — the “salt” being white or light reflective inclusions, and the “pepper” being dark carbon inclusions — distributed throughout the...