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Four Installations Photographed By The Factory
Client names, contract values and quantities are not published by the manufacturer and are not stated here. What each page describes is what is visible in the photograph, what the published specification says, and what the specification decisions behind that kind of installation actually are.
Matched Stone Work: An Eternity Band And A Tennis Line
On a full eternity band every stone sits beside two others at the same height under the same light, on a curve that meets itself. On a tennis line the row has to read identically for seven inches while bending. In both cases a stone a shade warmer or a fraction longer is visible from across a table.
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Certified Centre Stones: Two GIA Solitaires And A Ceylon Sapphire
When the stone is chosen from a report, every remaining decision is in the mount, and the two that matter are height and weight. A high cathedral head levers the stone every time the hand catches something. A mount cast too light flexes, and flexing is what loosens prongs.
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Jade And Pearl: Mounting Material Nobody At The Bench Chose
None of this material can be ordered to a size. A carving arrives finished, a cabochon is hand cut, a bangle is whatever the rough allowed, and a pearl is drilled exactly once. The mount has to be drawn around what exists rather than the stone being adjusted to a standard seat.
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Private Label: A Five Motif Bracelet And A Pave Statement Piece
Repeatability. A motif bracelet has to bead identically across five separate panels, and a pave form has to close its stone rows down a taper without the bead work going ragged. Both have to be buildable again, months later, to the same standard.
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Hand Assembly: A Working Spinner Ring And A Sculpted Shank
A spinner is a mechanical assembly that has to keep turning for years without seizing, loosening or catching a stone, and each one is assembled by hand. A sculpted shoulder has to read as its shape from above while still sitting flat against the next finger.
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