Men's 14th Degree Scottish Rite Masonic 8mm Band with Enamel Yod in 10k Yellow Gold

A plain, flat 8mm band of polished yellow gold carrying a single emblem: a black enamel triangle enclosing the Hebrew letter yod, the mark of the Scottish Rite’s fourteenth degree. The enamel is crisp and intact, the band is otherwise unadorned inside and out, and the surface shows the light wear of a ring that has been worn rather than kept in a box. 5.70 grams of 10k yellow gold.

This is the ring that says exactly one thing, to exactly the right people. To almost everyone it is a plain gold band; to a brother of the Rite the yod in its triangle is read from across a room, and it says the fourteenth degree has been taken and the ring received. That is the whole design, and it is why the band is left plain — nothing else on it should compete with the one mark that matters. An eight-millimetre flat band also wears the way a working ring should: nothing to catch, nothing to lose, and enough gold to feel it on the hand. You’d rather wear it than explain it, wouldn’t you?