Black Hills Style Grape Leaf Band in 10k Yellow, Rose and Green Gold

A grape-leaf band in the Black Hills style, in three colours of 10k gold: four frosted leaves with engraved veins — two in rose gold, two in green gold — laid along a yellow gold vine, with clusters of polished yellow gold beads between them for the grapes. The top is wide and gently domed and tapers to a plain shank. No stones. 5.90 grams of 10k gold.

The colour here is the metal, not a finish — the rose and the green are different gold alloys, so they stay rose and green for as long as the ring exists. Grapes and leaves in three golds is the pattern a whole region built its name on, and it is one of the few designs that reads right on a man’s hand and a woman’s alike. Nearly six grams, worn as softly as the frosting on the leaves. Isn’t that the ring you reach for every morning?