The Ruby Cluster
BURMESE RUBY · ROUND · 18K YELLOW · SEVEN STONES
Red corundum, the hardest colored stone after diamond. Every piece shown is a real work in the studio today. · 1 WORKS
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BURMESE RUBY · ROUND · 18K YELLOW · SEVEN STONES
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Before you choose
Long fingers carry tall settings; working hands want a bezel or a low prong. If you wear gloves or type all day, height is the first decision, not the last.
A ring worn daily needs 8 or harder on the Mohs scale: sapphire, spinel, diamond. Softer stones like opal and emerald are occasion stones, or need protective settings.
Fingers run a half size larger by evening and in summer. We size to your afternoon measurement and resize free within two sizes.
A well-cut smaller stone reads larger and livelier than a lazy big one. This is where our money goes, and where yours should.
The short answer
Ruby rings at Made With Color: one one of a kind work at $3,420, each built around a stone chosen loose, in daylight, in New York. Red corundum, the hardest colored stone after diamond. Every stone ships with a passport naming origin, carat, cut, and any treatment in plain words.
Red corundum, the hardest colored stone after diamond. We choose every stone loose, in daylight, and every work above carries a passport that says exactly what it is.
Ruby is 9 / 10 on the Mohs scale. Hard enough for daily wear in any setting, including rings.
Measure a ring you already own at the end of the day, when fingers run largest.
Decide setting height first. Hands that type, garden, or lift want the stone low.
Ruby is 9 / 10 on the Mohs scale. A ring takes more knocks than any other jewel. Below 8 on the Mohs scale, choose a bezel or a low setting.
Ruby is the Jul birthstone and the traditional stone of the 15th & 40th anniversary. We set it for both, and for no occasion at all.
Untreated unless the passport says otherwise. When a stone of ours is heated or grown in a lab, the passport says so in that word, in the same type size as everything else, and the price reflects it.
Today, one work at $3,420. Each is one of a kind, so the page moves as stones sell and new ones are set.
Ready-now works leave the studio within two business days, insured and signed for. Made to order pieces state their bench time on the page, most within three to four weeks.
Thirty days from delivery, in original condition, in the slate box. Resizing is free for life on rings, and any stone we set can be reset into a new mount as taste changes.
Kept for life
◆Cleaning and polishing◆Prongs tightened and retipped◆White gold re-plated◆Resizing◆Resetting into something newEvery page below is real: filtered from the works in the studio today, or an open invitation to commission the piece that is missing.
Client notes, unedited
“They talked me out of a bigger stone and into a better one. Who does that?”M. CHEN, SEATTLE · COMMISSION No. 114