Cushion Peridot Freeform Ring with .50cttw Diamond Bypass Rows in 14k White Gold

A cushion peridot, a bright yellow-green, set on the diagonal in four prongs at the centre of this ring. The band splits into two, and each half curves up and around the stone carrying a double row of small round diamonds — .50 carat in all — that sweep past the peridot in a bypass without meeting, leaving open space above and below it. The two halves rejoin into a single shank at the back. 5.60 grams of 14k white gold.

The trick of this ring is the air in it. Most stones this size sit in a solid head; this one sits in a window, with the two diamond rows passing on either side like a current parting round a rock. That gives it the spread of a wide ring across the finger without the weight or the bulk of one, and it puts the peridot’s colour against white metal and white diamonds with nothing else to compete. August’s stone, in a setting that does not look like anything else in the case — why settle for a catalog ring everyone owns?