2cttw 19 Diamond Kentucky Cluster Ring with Open Scroll Sides in 10k Yellow Gold

Nineteen round diamonds, two carats in total, set in white-metal prong heads across a round domed plate at the top of this ring, with a polished yellow bezel running around the outside of the head. The shoulders are pierced right through into open scrollwork — curls and leaf shapes you can see daylight through — that taper down to a plain shank. 8.40 grams of 10k yellow gold.

Two carats on a Kentucky cluster is the full-size version of the style, and this one is built the way the old ones were: heavy in the head, where the weight shows, and cut open at the shoulders, where it would only sit on the hand. The white plate under the stones does a job too — it keeps the diamonds reading white against all that yellow instead of picking up the gold around them. Over eight grams, nineteen stones, and a design that has meant the same thing in this state for a hundred years. Wear your colors or explain them?