Designing and Repurposing a Diamond Ring into a Diamond Pendant
Designing and making a diamond pendant
Restoring jewelry has been in Gray and Sons DNA since the doors opened in 1980. Our staff provides innovative solutions to restore the luster and appeal to all your jewelry needs. We recently had a client of ours bring us an old ring that didn't appeal to her anymore and wished to utilize the stones in a different setting. During the collaboration with our master jeweler and the client's aspiration for the stones, we determined that we should have the diamonds displayed as a necklace rather than a ring for the remainder of the stone's life. The client was inspired by an item in our catalog that showed a large diamond displayed on a pendant necklace with bunny ears hanging from a chain. We thought it'd be an excellent idea to utilize the diamond as the centerpiece for the necklace and baguettes as the bunny ears to hold the pieces together. Let's take a look at the process to accomplish this unique task for our client.
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Our jeweler first began by carefully removing the diamonds from its current ring setting and handing the stones over to our inhouse diamond expert to determine quality and clarity of the stones. It was determined that the pear-shaped stone was 5.40 CT, between an O - P color and an SI1. Afterward, the dimensions of the stones were measured to create the setting basket for the diamond. Our jeweler chooses platinum as the precious metal for this entire project for its durability and how the color of the diamond would accent the metal. Our jeweler began forging the basket setting from scratch creating the prongs that will house this diamond in its setting. He then moved to measure the baguettes to determine the diameter of the bunny setting that will hang from the chain. He fabricated two loops behind the bunnies that the chain will run through to hang from the necklace. The jeweler checks for stability first to ensure the safety of the pieces. It's then hand-polished to bring out its luster and shine for a clean elegant look. Finally we choose an 18inch box chain which collaborated well together.
The bar is then soaked in acid to remove impurities and some of the borak left behind during the melting process. Once cleaned and polished the bar is prepared to be flattened in a rolling mill. This machinery is precisely calibrated to thin the bar out to its desired measurement with each turn. This process is repeated several times to be within millimeters of the requested thickness of your piece.
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Once the required measurement is met our jeweler begins his cutting and molding procedure to meet the exact measurement for our anchor pendant onto our money clip. The money clip has dimensions of 56.4 MM length and 28.7 MM width completely flat. From this point, the flatten and polished piece is placed into a vice where our jeweler uses a steel cylinder punch to manipulate the gold and create the fold over that will create the springiness for the tension of the money clip. This takes an immense amount of patience by the jeweler to not overextend the metal and distort this nearly completed jewelry accessory. We took the anchor and polished it to return it's luster for an added pop to this money clip. We decided to enlarge the center diamond and replaced it with a GIA certified .47 carat stone with J color and SI2 clarity placed in a white gold setting. The pendant is soldered onto the clip and cleaned for a final pass of our quality control. Gray and Sons are always interested in the creation of all types of jewelry for the public and would love to take on your next project.
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Once you receive the box and send your watch, one of our Master Watchmakers will evaluate it and contact you with a free estimate. If you approve of the estimate we will proceed with the repair, which generally takes 2-3 weeks.
If you wish to repair at a different time we will ship the watch back to you at no cost to you.