Pink Star — Lab-Grown Star Ruby Flower Ring

Carried for

Pink Star — Lab-Grown Star Ruby Flower Ring

History and folklore, offered as such.

A cabochon star ruby does not sparkle — it holds a six-rayed line of light that moves across the dome as your hand moves. The effect is called asterism, and it comes from needle inclusions crossing inside the stone.

£289.00~~£309.00~~

Made after you order it · up to 20 days · 925 sterling silver

Ring size

Not sure of your size? Measure it in two minutes

Two minutes with a strip of paper now saves three weeks later. Everything is made after you order, so a size change afterwards means starting again.

1. Cut a strip of paper about 5 mm wide.

2. Wrap it round the base of the finger — snug, but it should pass the knuckle with a little resistance.

3. Mark the overlap, lay it flat, measure in millimetres. Find that number in the circumference column below.

Ring size	Circumference	Inside ø	UK	EU
4.5	48.0 mm	15.3 mm	J	48
5	49.3 mm	15.7 mm	K	49
5.5	50.6 mm	16.1 mm	L	50
6	51.9 mm	16.5 mm	M	52
6.5	53.1 mm	16.9 mm	N	53
7	54.4 mm	17.3 mm	O	54
7.5	55.7 mm	17.7 mm	P	56
8	57.0 mm	18.1 mm	Q	57
8.5	58.3 mm	18.5 mm	R	58
9	59.5 mm	18.9 mm	S	60
9.5	60.8 mm	19.4 mm	T	61
10	62.1 mm	19.8 mm	U	62

Measure in the evening. Fingers are largest at the end of the day. Measuring at 8am in January is the single most common reason a ring turns out tight.
Between two sizes? Take the larger. A ring you cannot get off is a worse problem than one that turns.
Wide bands run small. 6 mm or wider, go up half a size.
Adjustable pieces need no size at all — they open a little and hold.

Not sure? Email your measurement to asi8@gmail.com and we will tell you which number to choose. We would far rather spend five minutes on that than remake a ring.

The millimetres are the inside circumference of the band. Between two sizes, take the larger.

Add the gift box Linen-lined, wax sealed, with the stone card set into the lid. +£25

01 A stone is chosen for your order by hand, held to the light.
02 It is set in solid silver and cut to your size, finished, and checked.
03 It rests, and is wrapped by hand with its card — the stone, and the date it was finished.
04 Dispatched with tracking. Up to twenty days.

Free delivery, no minimum
Tracked worldwide
14-day returns

The story

This one is lab-grown. We say so plainly: the crystal is grown rather than mined, the chemistry is the same, and the price reflects it. Around it, a band opens into small flowers and leaves in two tones.

Materials

Lab-grown pink star ruby, 13 × 18 mm oval cabochon
17.27 cttw total; accent stones white cubic zirconia and lab-grown ruby
Solid 925 sterling silver, two-tone plated finish

Made to order. Supplier ring sizes for this design run US 5–10; tell us your UK size at checkout and we will match it.

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Seen closer

Pink Star — Lab-Grown Star Ruby Flower Ring

Every frame is the piece itself, photographed as it is — ruby, set in solid sterling silver.

01 Lab-grown pink star ruby flower ring in sterling silver

03 Pink star ruby ring, three-quarter view

04 Pink Star lab-grown star ruby ring worn on the hand

05 Pink Star ring resting on pale stone, showing the cabochon and the flower shoulders

Made after you order it Take this one

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What it has been carried for

Ruby

The same mineral as sapphire, and it was worth more than a diamond for most of recorded history.

01
The one everybody knows
Blood, courage, life

Carried by soldiers in more traditions than can be usefully listed, on the plainest of all associations: the stone is the colour of the thing you are trying not to lose.
Near-universal folklore
02
Less known
The king of stones

Sanskrit calls it ratnaraj, king of precious stones. In Burma warriors are recorded inserting rubies beneath the skin, on the belief the stone made them unwoundable. Almost every historic “ruby” in a European crown - including the Black Prince’s Ruby - turned out to be spinel.
Sanskrit tradition; Burmese practice
03
Almost nobody knows
One atom in a hundred

Ruby is corundum with roughly one aluminium atom in a hundred replaced by chromium. That single substitution is the whole difference between a colourless stone and the most valuable red in the world. And the same chromium is what made the first working laser, in 1960, out of a synthetic ruby rod.
Maiman, first laser, 1960

All of the above is history and folklore, written down because it is real and it is interesting. It is not a claim about what the stone will do. Some people feel something. Some don’t. More in The Codex

Before you decide

Everything we can tell you

01
The stone

Ruby. What we know about the material in this piece is written on the page above, in the measurements we were given. Where a stone is lab-grown or treated we say so by name. We never call a treated stone natural, and we never use the phrase “semi-precious”.
Read what it has been carried for →
02
The metal

Solid 925 sterling silver. This design carries a plated finish over that silver. Plating is a surface, and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not. We never plate base metal, and we never describe plating as solid gold.
How to keep it →
03
Made after you order

Nothing here sits in a warehouse. Work begins when the order does, and the piece takes up to 20 days before it ships. Your ring size is cut at that point, which is why we ask for it at checkout.
Making & delivery →
04
Size & fit

Ring sizes run 4.5 to 10 (UK J to U). Measure warm, at the end of the day, and take the reading three times.
How to measure at home →