Help finding a similar ring?

[diamondcrazed]

Hello all!

My fiance and I have been looking at wedding rings and he has found one that he loves. It is a Steven Kretchmer design - polarium angle band with 24K gold inlay, pictured at http://www.pearlmansjewelers.com/Product.asp?DesignerID=17&ItemTypeID=1&ItemID=1425&start=42

The question I have is: Does anyone know of any rings that are similar to this one out there? The design is simple, but the inlay adds a special something to the overall look of the ring with the crystallized look of the gold. We would like to stay with a platinum and gold combination, as he doesn''t care for titanium. He also doesn''t like the traditional two tone rings...

Any help is appreciated!
THANKS
Diamondcrazed

 

[valeria101]

Take a thick0ish confort fit platinum band, carve a channel and inlay high carat gold... honestly, this does not sound like rocket science. It would be way cheaper to have one custom made.

However, those rings seem to have a strange story. This is what the presentation says:

"Magic can happen when opposites attract. Polarium Angle bands for him with 24K fine gold inlay possess an attraction as powerful as love. With a simple flip, the force drawing these bands together is reversed, causing them to literally float apart."

From the descriptions of other rings in the same line, it seems that the magic relies on these bands being magnetized somehow, so that his and hers stick to each other. If there is some flat surface on them, the hold might be rather strong. How this was acheived I have no idea - there are a number of ways. Platinum is not magnetic, of course. If you'd want your wedding band to attract all paperclips, nails and needles around is yet another question

This is the first time I see that finish on gold. It is difficult to obtain true crystalized gold and that does not have the look. Whatever it is, it surely looks lovely. My guess would involve filing random patches somehow. As for crystalized gold, it is found in native ore sheets and looks like this:

Those are layer upon layer of very small triangles (trigonal crystals) more or less blunted, distorted or melted into each other. The picture is very magnified, the real scale appears clearly from more photographs of the entire native gold specimen (from Trinityminerals). The same shop presents a dozen of such pieces each with a different looking surface, of course.

Just for the beauty of the show... individual gold crystals might look like these:

in most cases these basic shapes would be contorted and overlayed.

If the purpose of the ring design is to look like native gold, these samples might serve as inspiration. I doubt anyone could crystalize the surface of a piece of jewelry...

 

[perry]

I believe that you will find the base metal in the rings to be one of the "exotic" 400 Stainless Steel series of metals. They are magnaized so that they either stick together - or repel depending on which side is presented to each other.

Alternately (and much more expensive) either white gold or platinum could be formed arrond a more normal magnetic material.

Gold "inlay" is then applied to provide the coloring. I suspect that it is rather thin and will redily wear off (especially 24 Karat gold inlay).

Perry