Triple Split Shank 1.25cttw Round Diamond Cluster Ring in 14k White Gold

The head is a long pointed navette, and every stone in it is a round brilliant — the largest at the centre, then rows stepping out to the widest part and back in to a single stone at each tip. All of them are individually prong-set. What happens below the head is the unusual part: the shank divides into three separate thin rails on each side, which fan apart as they climb and run up into the cluster with clear gaps between them. One and a quarter carats of diamonds in all, on 4.60 grams of 14k white gold.

Those three rails are doing something to the shape, not just holding it up. They start as one narrow shank at the back of the finger and spread as they rise, so the eye reads a widening progression that carries straight on into the point of the navette — the shoulders extend the outline instead of stopping at its edge, and the head ends up looking longer than it measures. Elongation is the entire reason anyone chooses a navette in the first place. There is a second thing the layout buys: spread across many small stones rather than concentrated in one, a carat and a quarter covers far more of the finger than the same weight ever could. Which matters more to you, the number or the look of it?