Triple Marquise Sapphire Ring with .38cttw Diamond Halo in 14k Yellow Gold

Three marquise sapphires, a deep blue, set point to point in a row across this ring — a larger centre stone in four prongs between two smaller ones — inside a frame of small round diamonds that follows the pointed outline: a single diamond at the top and bottom points, three at each shoulder and a row along either side. The diamonds total .38 carat. The shoulders split and taper into a plain polished shank. 3.00 grams of 14k yellow gold.

Set three marquises end to end and they stop being three stones and become one long line of blue; frame that line in diamonds and the whole head takes the pointed shape of a single big navette. That is how this ring gets the spread of a much heavier piece on three grams of gold — the shape does the work, not the weight. Sapphire is the fifth-anniversary stone, and three of them in a row say it plainly. You’ve got a date in mind for it, haven’t you?