Rubini Jewelers Blog — Diamonds

This engagement ring project was brought to us by a couple who had all of their own family diamonds.  The woman wanted a very bold, very wide, magical ring. She brought us samples of her style and a drawing of what she wanted, which was an 18mm across on top white gold ring with yellow gold leaves, swirls, bezels and 1 rim.  We had never tackled such a behemoth 2 tone creation, so we tackled it several different ways to handle our naïveté. What we discovered was, soldering thin yellow gold details to a heavy white gold band results in...

Welcome to August 2020. We are in the midst of a planet wide awakening. Which means that we all don't have to follow the established norm any longer, including choices for wedding jewelry: how to wear it, where to wear it. Traditionally in North America, wedding rings are worn on the left ring finger, with the wedding ring first (closest to the heart) and the engagement next. Now, some people just use one big wide ring. This 18kt white gold diamond wave design ring is a perfect candidate for wearing a single ring rather than 2 rings.  Another trend: freedom of color,...

Let's take a walk thru sparkly stones land and try to discern what is right for you. Cubic Zirconia>>Good for kick around jewelry that is not necessarily worn often, or that is even worn daily but is meant to simply add sparkle without commitment and meaning, will work with CZs. They will survive best in jewelry incurring the least abrasion: earrings, pins, pendants. And storing them apart from other jewelry and abrasive items will increase their brilliance life expectancy. Given their low cost, if they do get scratched, replacement is not as dear as other sparkly stones, but also given their...

Diamonds are carbon: very organized and stable carbon, that is. A very scientific description can be found here but simplified vastly, natural diamonds were created when carbon dioxide got trapped far below the earth's surface millions of years ago, was subjected to massive pressure from all the earth above it, was then forced at a high speed back up to the surface via volatile volcanic action which prevented the natural conversion of carbon dioxide into graphite and instead produced a very stable strong carbon compound aka diamond, or so the theory goes.  With synthetic diamonds AKA lab grown diamonds, that process...