OCEAN FANGS
Some rings are simply beautiful. This one is something more unsettling than that.
Ocean Fangs was built around a 3.32 carat blue spinel of unknown origin, its colour capturing the depth of open water where light no longer reaches. Within the stone sit rounded crystal inclusions that read like air bubbles suspended mid-rise, frozen on their way to the surface. The deeper you look, the further away the bottom seems.
The setting is a decagonal 950 platinum halo, ten-sided and deliberate, with ten individual pointed fangs gripping the stone from above. It is not a comfortable ring. It is not meant to be. It is meant to be noticed, and then looked at again.
No heat. No treatment. What you see is exactly what was found.
Ocean Fangs comes with a GIA certificate and is presented in an original Orloff of Denmark ring box.
ONE OF A KIND.
ORLOFF OF DENMARK.
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About Spinel
Spinel is one of the most underappreciated gemstones in the world, and among collectors, that is precisely what makes it so desirable.
For centuries, the finest red spinels were mistaken for rubies. The Black Prince's Ruby, one of the most famous gemstones in the British Crown Jewels, is in fact a spinel. It was only in the late 18th century that science caught up with what the stone actually was.
Spinel forms in a wide range of colours, from intense reds and vivid pinks to deep blues, grays and violets. It occurs naturally without the heat treatment that is standard practice for sapphires and rubies, meaning a no-heat spinel is genuinely rare and genuinely natural. What you see in the stone is what the earth made.
The finest specimens come from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Vietnam. Mahenge spinels from Tanzania are particularly prized for their intense neon pink, while Ceylon spinels from Sri Lanka are known for their soft, complex violets and blues.
For those who know gemstones, spinel needs no introduction. For those who are discovering it for the first time, consider the ones we offer.