Display Your Diamond with Style
Executive Summary about Diamond Ring Settings by Peter Leigh

Diamond ring settings can influence the appearance and character of your ring as much as the diamond itself. Good diamond ring settings show off your diamond.

Simple settings, like the prong setting, are more commonly available. The prong setting is most commonly used for solitaire rings, and can set a single stone off perfectly. This kind of setting can allow your diamond to sit either close to the hand, or elevate it for further prominence. A prong setting, which creates a sort of basket shape in which the diamond rests, exposes more of the diamond than other types of diamond ring settings, and while this can display a diamond beautifully, it also leaves the stone more exposed, and vulnerable to damage.

Another diamond ring setting is known as the bezel setting, in which the diamond is surrounded by a kind of collar. This setting is more secure than the prong setting, and is a popular choice for this reason. This type of setting can provide a ring with a more streamlined, understated look.

A channel set ring is one in which several stones are aligned in a channel - this setting is ideal for those who would like more than one stone in their ring. This style is popularly chosen for engagement rings, as the tidy line created by this setting allows for the easy matching of a wedding ring. A setting similar in appearance to this setting is the invisible setting, in which gemstones also sit alongside one another.

Setting A Diamond - What To Know
Executive Summary about Diamond Ring Settings by Brock Hammill

The more prongs, the more secure the diamond will be. Platinum is much stronger and heavier than gold. Gold prongs can get bent and over time wear down. White gold is made by mixing gold, silver, nickel, palladium and platinum. the white gold electroplated with rhodium to make it look much whiter. The only problem with this method is that the electroplating only attaches a thin layer of rhodium that wears off in about a year and needs to be redone in order to get the original shine back. This will cost about $35 dollars if it is an all white gold item that can be plated all at once. Since white gold is not an element but an alloy of a number of different metals the mixture can be change to suit the application. If a hard metal is needed it can be mixed with nickel or if a softer metal is needed for setting stones it can be mixed with palladium. So remember not all white gold is the same.

Interesting note: Since gold is a yellow color the more gold in white gold the more yellow it will look. A 14k white gold ring will look more yellow than a 10k white gold ring.

Platinum is way more expensive than white gold. Platinum has many advantages over white gold. First, it is more scratch resistant and will not wear down over time. Second it is much heavier than white gold so when you put it on you feel like you are putting on a major piece of jewelry. Third as it gets older it will hold its color and shape much better than gold. Since platinum is naturally a nice white color if it gets a scratch or dinged it will still look white.

Both materials will need to be cleaned and polished to keep them looking good as new.

Get a higher color grade diamond with these 2 materials. Since they are so white they will make a slightly yellow diamond look even more yellow. If the diamond you are getting has a low color grade you might want to go for yellow gold which tends to hide a yellow diamond better since the metal is yellow.

Yellow gold is the standard ring but seems to be quickly losing ground.

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