Round Opal Flower Cluster Ring with Scalloped Frame in 14k Yellow Gold

A round flower cluster of eleven opals: one larger round cabochon at the centre and ten smaller round cabochons around it, each in its own prong head and each sitting in its own scallop of an openwork frame cut like the outline of a flower. The opals are white with flashes of green, pink and blue. The head stands high above the finger; a polished collar at each shoulder steps down to a plain shank. 7.40 grams of 14k yellow gold.

One opal shows you one flash. Eleven of them, each turned a little differently on its prong, means the head never looks the same twice — tilt the hand and a different stone lights up green, then pink, then blue. The scalloped frame turns that into a flower, and the raised head lets light in from the sides so the stones keep flashing in a dim room. October’s stone, worn as a bouquet rather than a single bloom — which would you rather be handed?