The engagement ruby ring is one of those unusual pieces of jewelry that seems quite out of the ordinary when it comes to bridal jewelry. When most people think of engagement rings, they think of diamonds and not the other precious stones like Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire. This would be a mistake because although no stone is as durable as diamond, each of these three precious stones have their own appeal.

When it comes to precious colored stone, it is more of an emotional response to the beauty of the color than the perfection of the cut. Ruby is a part of the Corundum mineral family is second only to diamond in hardness. It is also called the Lord of gems for a reason. This is because it is practically priceless if it is a clean stone in the pure pigeon blood red color in sizes larger than 2 carats. You are not likely to see very many five carat and above sizes in a relatively inclusion free, nice colored Ruby. This is why you don’t see many women with plus size ruby engagement rings.

This makes it an ideal precious stone to be used as a center stone in a beautiful engagement ring. You may remember when the late Princess Diana got engaged to Prince Charles and her engagement ring had a beautiful oval blue sapphire center stone surrounded by diamonds. This was no ordinary sapphire. It was a prized, untreated , and fabulously rare Kashmiri sapphire of the purest cornflower blue. This rare sapphire would be astronomically priced today, but if you can imagine an equally clear and pure colored Ruby of the same size you’d be talking about a price many times that of the sapphire simply because such rubies are quite rare.

The antique ruby ring has a rather sordid role in history as being one of the most misidentified gemstones important pieces of jewelry. The gemstone spinel with its orangey red color and hardness close that of the ruby was often inadvertently used in ruby and diamond rings in antiquity. These pieces were later identified in modern times as having a spinel center stone rather than a ruby. Now that we can identify rubies as rubies and even clear up confusion with ruby treatments and synthetic rubies, there is no need to fear that when we buy ruby jewelry from a reputable store that we are buying the genuine gemstone.

A ruby and diamond ring is the natural combination of stones to be used in a ruby engagement ring. The most common style in this type of ruby diamond ring is that of an oval ruby center stone with either a matched pair of diamond side stones or smaller diamonds studding areas of the mounting or combination of both.

Oval rubies are the most common shape that you will find in a diamond and ruby ring. This is the shape that saves the most weight for the Ruby cutter. Other cuts that you will commonly see our emerald cut, cushion cut, marquis cut, round and pear. Oval however gives you the most bang for the buck. To the right this is a round ruby ring with two matched pear shape diamonds. An oval or cushion would look slightly better with the diamonds if you can imagine that.

The trilliant shaped diamonds offer a nice contrast to the softness of the cushion shaped Ruby or in this case an emerald cut . If the side diamonds are especially white, then this helps to bring out the beautiful red color of the ruby.The other common shapes of matched side stone diamonds that you will find in a ruby ring our rounds, pears and baguettes. Round diamonds have better optics than the other shapes and are a good contrast to the subdued red of most medium to higher quality rubies.

Chocolate diamonds have been in vogue for the past 5 years now and was popularized by the promotion of brown colored diamonds to precious stone status. Prevously, about a decade ago, no one looked at champage, cognac and brown colored diamonds. They were considered non gem material and highly flawed. Today that has changed with Argyles constant promotional efforts to present these earth colored diamonds as being beautiful and desirable diamonds.

I would say that they exceeded their ambition because nowdays even uncut diamonds of all colors are being used in jewelry and can be actually more expensive than white faceted diamonds.Chocolate diamonds have fed off the promotion of colored pearls notably the chocolate and pistachio colored variety from Tahiti. Check out the chocolate diamond wedding ring to the left. There are now many designers that design chocolate diamond rings and chocolate diamond earrings in a multiple of styles.

Most notable is The brand called Eddie Levian. I would say this brand has single handedly pursued colored diamond jewelry and has brought it to a point where earth colored diamonds are now being combined in many different ways with white diamonds. A chocolate diamond is set in prongs that are typically black rhodiumed because this brings out the true color of the chocolate diamond as it scintillates. White prongs reflect a lot of light and so would compete with the minimal amount of light return coming out of chocolate diamond jewelry.

Remember, it is the deep hue of the diamond that is of interest in colored diamonds and not so much the fire and brilliance as is the case with white diamonds. True, you need your chocolate diamond ring to have well cut diamonds so that the chocolate hue comes bursting out but you’re still also interested in the purity of color and how well the chocolate diamonds match and blend together. This is important because in most colored diamond jewelry the beauty of the design comes fom the juxtaposition of the chocolate diamonds in their black prongs against the bright white diamonds in their brightly rhodiumed prongs.

For instance in a chocolate diamond engagement ring the design usually calls for a richly hued chocolate diamond center stone. This is only possible if the stone is cut well enough so that there is good reflection on the pavilion facets for nice even light return. This will give the true hue of the diamond and bring out the beauty of the mounting as well.

In the case of a cocktail brown diamond ring (like the one to the right) or also known as a chocolate right hand ring, the chocolate hue is created with multiple small round diamonds set in rows or patterns and immediately juxtaposed by white diamonds of similar size. This brings out the pattern and design of the ring as well as the rich chocolatey color of the brown diamonds.

The diamond cluster ring is perhaps the most replicated diamond ring style since the 1970s. Many women from the baby boom generation probably own at least one diamond cluster ring. Theappeal of this type of diamond ring is the fact that multiple small diamonds are set close to each other covering a huge swath of ring area.

The most common shape is the circle with diamonds concentrically placed from a lower outer base building up towards the center of the head of the ring till all you need is one diamond at dead center to finish off the ring.

The beauty of the gold diamond cluster ring is that it scintillates with flashes of brilliance from all angles. Also, it has a very feminine look because usually each diamond is set for three prongs with one prong always pointing away from the ring giving it a nice dainty look like the rose gold cluster ring to the right.

Not all diamond cluster rings are round. One of the most popular styles is the waterfall diamond ring which has rows upon rows of diamonds three diamonds wide running up and down the center of the ring in a North South fashion. It simulates the look of a cascading waterfall and you will see this style on many women.

The other type of cluster diamond ring is the one shaped like a rosette with one small diamond in the middle surrounded by five or six diamonds of the same size or smaller as if to simulate petals on a flower. Check out the ring to the left which is a rosette ring in a bypass style. It is simply one diamond surrounded by six “petals” .

This style is also done in a bezel set finish especially when bigger diamonds are used. The image of the flower is a bit clearer when the diamonds are set in bezels.

The more modern type of ring is a white gold diamond cluster ring in a square shape. A central square shape with about four, nine or 16 diamonds set in prongs is surrounded by a square ledge set with smaller diamonds around the periphery either channel set or prong set.

This style is a bit more geometric which many modern women seem to go for. This style can also use princess cut diamonds invisibly set so that they’re no prongs showing except the outer lip running around the edge of the outer diamonds. You can see this in the ring to the right.

This was a great style during the 1980s and 1990s which has since fallen out of favor because this type of ring was difficult to size without having the diamonds become loose with a tendency to fall out.

This problem was difficult to correct because of the nature of invisible set diamonds which require that the diamond seats should fit into a groove burrowed by a laser on the underside of the diamonds. Because this was such a precise fit, any damage to this setting would jar the diamonds loose and would be difficult for a jeweler to put back by hand. Most jewelers would not touch a repair that involved invisibly set diamonds especially in cluster diamond rings.

Interest in antiques who we styles especially diamond jewelry has been on the rise particularly because rose cut diamonds and old miners cut diamonds have become exceedingly rare because many of them were seen as old-fashioned and were we cut into more contemporary styles like the?round brilliant.

As far as popular blue gemstones go, tanzanite second only to blue sapphire is very well known in the Western world.

It is often termed as a semi precious gemstone which is a bit of a misnomer because a nice quality tanzanite ring with just a few carats of tanzanite as a center stone can cost in the thousands at retail.

What is most attractive about tanzanite is its deep purplish blue velevety color that looks great in combination with other accent gems as you would find in tanzanite diamond rings and tanzanite engagement rings.

The bright background of white metal and diamonds that you find in a white gold tanzanite ring is the best backdrop for the color of tanzanite.

Tanzanite’s Exotic Color
Also called blue green zoisite, (yes, it does come in green as well albeit more rarely) its deep color is a great match for sparkly diamonds of all sizes.

Yes, as you have heard, the beautiful color is the result of heat treatment that is used on the gemstone. It normally comes out of the ground in a brown color and then the purplish blue or bluish purple color is coaxed out of it by heat.

You will find it used in mens tanzanite rings since men prefer white metals and this gemstone, especially in a aaa tanzanite ring is simply to die for.

Because tanzanite is a class 3 gemstone, meaning it generally comes clean without inclusion, it typically is graded on quality based primarily on the carat weight, cut, hue, tone and color saturation.

Clarity is generally assumed to be acceptable in top grade stones that get set in a high quality tanzanite and diamond ring.

The Rise Of the Tanzanite Engagement Ring
Among tanzanite rings that are most popular among women these days is the tanzanite engagement ring.

It is basically a tanzanite gold ring or even platinum ring with a top quality tanzanite center stone usually surrounded by accent diamonds or in a three stone configuration with a matched pair of side diamonds flanking the tanzanite.

Today women are beginning to use colored stones a bit differently than from in the past. Engagement rings are one category of jewelry that was previously restricted to white diamonds and white metals for the most part.

Most young women that you see getting married would be shopping for a white diamond engagement ring. However, a small minority now prefer a colored stone as the center stone in their engagement ring.

First, there was the craze for a fancy yellow diamond as the center stone which then progressed to other diamond colors like blue, pink and then on into the earth color diamonds like champagne diamonds, cognac diamonds and brown diamonds.

Tanzanite Vs Sapphire Ruby and Emerald
This set the stage for the use of other precious colored gemstones as center stones in a diamond engagement ring.

Initially high quality sapphire, emerald and ruby were the gemstones most commonly used because they were the most well-known on this side of the world.

Then more and more women became attracted to tanzanite 15 years ago because it’s bluish purplish color was so velvety and intoxicating and could not be found in any other gemstone.

Tanzanite became the first semi precious stone to merit serious consideration for use as a center stone in an engagement ring.

Tanzanite is also a gemstone that comes in a wide range of sizes and with slight deviations to its hue with some stones exhibiting a more blue color while others showed a more purplish color. This was always a great conversation piece with any tanzanite piece of jewelry.

The debate always was whether it was more blue or more purple. This fueled the attraction for tanzanite as an actual gemstone worthy of being mounted in a woman’s engagement ring. It had character, beauty and a story.

The Best Cuts and Shapes For Tanzanite Rings
stone shapes. The beauty and versatilty of tanzanite was in the many different shapes that the rough could be cut into.

The trilliant shape became one of the most popular tanzanite shapes to be used as an engagement ring center stone. It was very different from the traditional round diamonds that most other women had.

Also, this tanzanite shape was available in sizes larger than 5 carats at a reasonable price and the gemstone was very clean to boot.

Tanzanite is a gemstone like aquamarine that generally comes clean from the ground. So women had it all in this gemstone. They had a clean, beautifully colored gemstone in an exotic color and shape that signaled a fashionable departure from the traditional norm in engagement rings.

You’ve been told to start your diamond shopping online before hitting the local jewelers and now you’re lost in a sea of paperwork. You have pages of GIA and EGL reports for all the diamonds you’ve seen on Bluenile strewn in front of you and you have no idea what’s the really important information here. I mean, who knows if that extra thick girdle really affects the brilliance on diamond A, it’s still a better deal than that other one which is slightly off of “ideal” in table percentage.

There’s no doubt that hundreds of diamonds; important diamonds ; are bought and sold for the most part on what a diamond certificate says. Does this mean they’re to be trusted ? What about the scandal that rocked GIA last year with the grader who was accepting money to assign good grades to some diamonds.

For the most part, the top Independent diamond grading labs have certain standards and may emphasize different aspects of diamond grading one over the other, but it all comes down to an opinion, albeit an expert opinion but an opinion nonetheless. That’s why you can get 2 different color grades on the same diamond from two different labs each with competent graders. Heck, you can even send the same stone back to the same lab 6 months later and get a slightly different report in terms of color and clarity and even a few measurements here and there.

So, I’m kicking off a series on Diamond Grading reports that will cover the ins and outs of different types of grading reports and the different labs that put out these grading reports.

First off let’s start with a list of the world’s major gemological laboratories whose products range from diamond grading documents to light performance reports

1. American Gem Society Laboratories- Reputation for credibility,consistency, and thoroghness
2. American Gemological laboratories- Primarily deals with colored stones
3. GCAL-Gem Certification and Assurance Lab- Provides more technical certs, recent to the Grading industry
4. EGL USA-European gemological laboratory- Has a mixed reputation for grading reports, not as highly regarded as GIA and AGS in terms of thoroughness, consistency, and rigor in diamond grading
5. Gemex Systems- The gemex report is a different animal in that it measures and grades the light performance of a diamond directly using a spectrophotometer instead of using parameters of cut in attempting to predict performance and beauty of a diamond
6. GIA Gemological Institute of America- Often considered the international benchmark for diamond grading and independent third party diamond evaluation

Channel set eternity bands make a great “stand-in” wedding band. I wear a stand-in eternity band instead of the one that matches my engagement for the simple reason that sometimes when I’m going out and I don’t want to wear the “big rock” I slip on my one and a half carat white gold eternity band on my left hand ring finger where my engagement ring would normally go.

During the winter I can sometimes get it on my right hand ring finger and I’ll do that and wear my tanzanite or sapphire ring on my left hand ring finger.

What else is great about a channel eternity band ?

• For one it’s smooth and if I’m putting on a sweater or gloves I don’t have to worry about it catching on anything.
• It has a little more metal in it, (18kt white gold) because channels generally will have more metal than prongs so it feels substantial on.
• Yes, it still turns like any other eternity band but I feel a little safer accidentally hitting my band clad finger against a wall or something because I don’t feel like I might have bent a prong.
• Although I don’t wear my channel band with my engagement ring, the channel band is a good choice for an after thought band when you can’t get something exactly matching your engagement ring because at least it looks clean and won’t sustain any damage rubbing against your engagement ring.
• being one of the most popular styles of diamond band it’s available in a vast range of heights, widths and carat weights so you can get a pretty close match up against your engagement ring .

A good place to get an eternity channel band is your local jeweler. Some of the benefits of going to your local jeweler are:

1. You’ll be able to see a selection of channel bands and try them on to see how well they match up against your engagement ring.
2. If they’re good people you’ll get some good after sales service if you need it.

Some of the drawbacks with going to your local jeweler are

1. For a product like a diamond eternity band you can expect to pay a healthy markup.
2. Expect to wait anywhere from 4 to 12 weeks for them to get your ring custom made
3. Don’t expect to have any return options. You’ll have to sign their receipt acknowledging that it’s a final sale which means you’re stuck with it if you don’t like it.
4. Don’t expect to have a resize option if your ring doesn’t fit when you finally get it. They’ll tell you that eternity bands cannot be sized which for the most part is true, however you are ultimately responsible for telling them what size feels best and they will write something like “customer requests size 6 1/4″ on the custom order and have you sign it and so absolve themselves of any responsibility for correctly measuring your finger size.

Diamond right hand rings became a favorite of many designers as a canvas upon which to display their design prowess. What easier way than to take a publicly advertised diamond product theme with De Beers dollars behind it and design their way into the limelight.

After all, right hand rings were about the individual with all their styling quirks. Right hand rings in this way allowed designers to go beyond their standard collections and expand their range to showcase traditional styling all the way to the audacious and ahead of their time styling and material.

Here is a piece from the manufacturer/designer Andin which is fairly basic in concept but simply elegant in excecution. At first blush it would seem to have more in common with a solitaire engagement ring rather then a right hand diamond ring.

First there is a mounting and second there is a single center stone. Now if a matching band came with it then perhaps but without that, all indications are that this could be called a right hand ring. It has a tailored one of a kind look despite its simplicity. A right hand does not always have to be showy and larger than life.

Contrary to the the previous ring, here is a larger than life diamond right hand ring with brown diamonds in the center set in Rose gold and white diamonds set in white gold. This is more typical of right hand rings in terms of scale. Previously this would have been called a diamond cuff ring but now this could definitely be called a right hand ring.

The centre motif is rose shaped and is appropriately rose gold. Wide cuff rings like this are not for everyone’s fingers because of the extra width.

If you have short finger you may want to consider a different style of right hand ring. In fact you may want to try the next style of ring shown below from the designer Diamonds in the rough if you have short stubby looking fingers. It features cognac diamonds in the rough set in 18k rose gold with small pink diamonds on the periphery.Rough diamonds are big now in the jewelry design world. Their prices have skyrocketed as a number of jewelry designers have introduced styles of their own only to realise that the prices have gone way up in the past three years.

Five years ago nobody was even looking at rough diamonds, diamond ring design was based on the premise of cut and polished diamonds whether modern or period cuts. Now rough diamonds are being paired with raw look gold for an inspired back to nature look. This coincides well with the green movement.

A variation on this trend is the not so rough look with an original design by La Reina to the left using included diamonds with a flattened rose cut to serve as petals on this right hand diamond flower ring.

The design is lavish with an inspired vision and quite an original among unique right hand diamond rings with a style that is neither vintage nor modern.

Right hand rings can also look designer without having a designer label and looking totally original. Black diamond right hand rings were perhaps the first type of colored diamond ring or rather right hand ring that became widely available with a diamonds that were not white. Black diamonds are actually much less expensive than the raw uncut off color diamonds now prized by designers and their followers.

It turned up en masse in black and white diamond jewelry in jeweler’s showcases back in 2000 and has had its ups and downs as popularity waxed and waned ?as designers favored other colors.Check out the ring below, a simple black diamond right hand ring in a band style with a twist.

Although black diamonds are not colored diamonds per se since black is not a hue but a shade or tint this takes nothing away from their popularity with designers of all calibres since black diamonds of all sizes are very reasonably priced all things considered.

Although treated blue diamonds have turned out to be just as popular, black diamond jewelry is till a great combination to wear with any kind of dress because it has a neutral appeal. ?There is a huge variety available at retail and at virtually any price point. It is even mounted in silver for a more casual luxe look.

Cushion cut diamond engagement rings first started out as old miner cuts dating from the 1700s. This was the start of brilliant cutting as far as diamonds were concerned because most diamond cutting before this was predominantly the step cutting technique that you see today in emerald and asscher cuts.

What happened was that diamond cutters would keep the basic form of the rough octahedron and flatten the top of one pyramid and round out the edges giving rise to the cushion shape or old miners cut. Antique cushion cut engagement rings arise from this vintage diamond cut which is characterized by a thick and high crown and a deep pavilion giving it a very blocky look. Many of these vintage cushion cut engagement rings were recut into modern round brilliants as they would surface and so many lost their antique value which is now even more prized today. The old miners cut eventually morphed into the old European cut as cutters took off more of the squareness to form the precursor to the modern round brilliant shape.

Cushion cut engagement rings have become quite popular recently as women now are looking for something different from the traditional round diamond and something away from the oldertraditional fancy cuts like emerald, pear and oval. The shape and faceting is shown to the right

Diamonds with a squarish shape appeal like the princess cut, radiant, asscher and emerald cut have experienced more demand over the years as women who received a diamond engagement ring in the past have looked to these cuts for some of their avnniversary rings and other diamond jewelry.

As a center diamond in a ring, the princess cut diamond is overall the second most popular diamond cut after the round and is the most popular square cut for square diamond engagement rings. For 2009 the cushion cut engagement ring has bested the radiant cut in terms of popularity as square shaped center stone engagement rings go according to JCK magazine’s survey of American jewelry retailers.

Cushion cut diamonds have a softer look compared to princesses and radiants because of their rounded corners and shallower cut. Although the cushion cut diamond engagement ring will not scintillate as much as the other squares mentioned because of fewer facets, nevertheless its old world shape appeal coupled with the fact that its corners will not chip as easily as the princess and is not as bottom heavy as the princess or radiant means that it has a larger face up than the others for a given carat weight. To some degree it makes up for the lack of scintillation with the broader flashes that originate from its larger pavilion facets.

Despite their recent popularity the cushion cut engagement ring can be hard to find at your local jewelers unless it is a jeweler that specializes in square diamonds. You are far more likely to see the asscher cut than the cushion cut. At first, the asscher cut seems to be the prettier diamond. The asscher is the more well endowed cousin of the emerald cut sporting a deeper step cut pavilion that has more scintillation. However in the end it is still a step cut. A finely cut cushion, especially some of the branded cushion cuts like the Cushette by Vision Cut of New York who are the patent holders for this cushion cut have a brillaince and scintillation that many women find more appealing than the square step cuts.

Instaed of the normal 60 or so facets of a normal cushion, the cushette has a total of 77 facets and each one that comes from Vision Cut is branded and numbered. Another company with their own proprietory cushion cut diamond is harry Kotlar and Company. Gabrielle Tolkowski also has a proprietory square cut of his own called the Carre which is produced by Suberi Brothers of New York although it does not have the shape appeal of a cushion but rather a princess cut.

Cushion cut solitaire engagement rings come in many types of settings. Antique looking hand engraved mountings are popular with the cushion, rekindling its old miners cut heritage.

Cushion cut micro pave engagement rings on the other hand are more popular than most others as micro pave continues to dominate engagement ring design in white gold and platinum.

Check out this classic pave cushion engagement ring style to the right. It’s a simple?classic?of an engagement ring that has a wide appeal

Various side stones can be used with a cushion shaped diamond however straight edges side diamonds like trilliants and princesses tend not to be used because they can distract from the?softness of the cushion shape. Instead, curvaceous half moons ?are more commonly used like this ring to the left.

Instead of side stones, the cushion shape can also be emphasized by ?setting it in a bezel surrounded by channel set diamonds or even pave set diamonds surrounding a prong set cushion diamond.

Care must be taken that the prongs are not so thick that distract from the diamond. With cushions especially it is far better to use the double claw prongs at the corners than thick beaded prongs like this ring down below.

Prices on cushion cut diamonds run the gamut. They are generally less expensive than a comparable round brilliant although given their hard to find nature and fewer specimensexhibiting really nice optics it can pretty much be dependent on supply and demand.

Sometimes it can be so difficult to find premium cut cushion diamonds in the sizes and quality required that many purchasers end up getting the branded cushions talked about earlier.

Silver hoop earrings are versatile type of jewelry that is eminently affordable and fashionable. They are also quite versatile in the type of look you want to create ranging in sizes from shoulder dusters to small huggy type hoops that cling to your ear.

Before it was the gold hoop that was the basic item of jewelry in a woman’s wardrobe. Nowadays because the price of gold is so high, a gold hoop often has an entry level price point in the mid $200 range.

Perhaps eight years ago you would’ve been able to purchase a pair of white gold hoop earrings or yellow gold hoop earrings at an opening price point of $50 or $60.

This is no longer the case since gold hovers at the $1200 per ounce price point on the gold spot market. So silver is now the new gold and silver hoops are gaining in popularity as an essential part of the woman’s jewelry wardrobe.

Diamond and Sterling Silver Hoop Earrings
Diamond Silver hoop earrings have recently become quite popular because now diamond hoop earrings can occupy opening price points that are unheard of in today’s gold market.

One of the first companies that started mounting diamonds into sterling Silver was the company called Hot Diamonds.

This was at least eight years ago when mounting diamonds and sterling silver was considered heresy from a jeweler’s point of view.

Sterling silver at the time was not considered a very precious metal and was not considered worthy of mounting precious stones in it.

However now that the spot price of gold is over $1000 per ounce, it only makes sense from a jewelry retail point of view to Mount diamonds in sterling silver and create opening price points for diamond jewelry that are accessible to everyone.

Diamond Quality in Sterling Silver Earrings

Often men are to loss when they go out to buy diamond jewelry and are quite taken aback at the high prices that diamonds set in 14 carat gold and 18 karat gold command simply because gold is now double the price of what it was five years ago.

Sterling silver cubic zirconia earrings could be a viable alternative but not necessarily a good value for money. Although diamond prices have gone up some, it is nowhere near the rate at which gold prices have gone up.

Commercial quality diamonds in carat weights from two points to five points have remained steady in terms of pricing at retail.

So jewelry items like diamond sterling Silver hoop earrings have price points that are at least one quarter of the price of a similar item made out of gold.

So you can easily find a pair of one carat total weight sterling Silver diamond earrings for under $300.

Granted the diamonds will be of the highest quality and will have their share of inclusions and imperfections but it’ll still be a nice looking and glittery piece of diamond jewelry that a man can afford for his wife or girlfriend.

Sterling Silver Set With Diamonds Can Have The Same Look As White Gold

There are many types of diamond hoop earrings to be found if you’re shopping for a pair.

Women have their own preferences as far as diamond earring styles, more than likely she would prefer pave diamond silver hoops because of the way a pave setting emphasizes the scintillating nature of small diamonds catching light.

Sterling silver is just as easily set with diamonds in a pave style as gold is. Whatever types of diamond settings you see in gold hoop earrings can be achieved in sterling silver hoops earrings whether you are considering small or large silver hoop earrings.

The only limitation will be the cost factor since manufacturers are not like to put high-value, high quality diamonds suitable for diamond engagement rings and diamond wedding bands in gold into sterling Silver.

However it is still possible to find sterling Silver hoop earrings prong set with with two point to five point round diamonds just as you would find gold diamond hoop earrings set in a similar way.

This is a popular category and sterling silver earrings since women are always looking for better pricing on a high-quality diamond hoop earrings look without the expense of a precious metal like gold.

David Yurman silver hoop earrings

Silver hoop earrings achieve high style in David earing collections for women. His signature cable motif is what you commonly see in his hoop earring collection which are primarily plain sterling Silver and sterling silver paired with gold in a two tone style.

Of course his earing collections with gold are a bit pricier than the sterling silver but not so much because his pricing is more based on the fact that his jewelry is from a reputable designer as opposed to the actual materials used in the piece of jewelry.

His cable motif is well interpreted in his sterling Silver hoop earrings because hoops by their very nature are skinny circular pieces of metal that her good showcase for his cable finish.

The cable finish is nice because as the name suggests it is reminiscent of steel cable and with a bit of antiquing it exhibits a style and class that takes it beyond its simple origins in sterling silver.

Now all this famous designer needs to do is add a collection of mens silver hoop earrings using his signature cable motif that matches his new streamline collection of mens band rings.