Look at it twice
Straight on, Nell is a four claw oval solitaire on a flat band. Turn it and the shoulders cross underneath the stone instead of meeting it head on, so the gallery reads as two arms passing rather than one solid head. It is a small piece of drawing that changes the whole silhouette from the side, and most people don't catch it until the second look.
This is the setting only. You choose the centre diamond yourself from our live inventory, natural or lab grown, GIA or IGI certified, and we set it for you. The band is 3.5mm, flat with rounded edges, which is the profile that wears best on a hand that is never without the ring.
Available in 14ct or 18ct white, yellow or rose gold, or 950 platinum. 14ct is harder and takes daily wear slightly better. 18ct holds richer colour and is what most of our customers choose. Platinum is heavier on the hand and white the whole way through, so it never needs re-plating.
Every Monroe Yorke ring goes through ten distinct stages over four to eight weeks. Design refinement. Three-dimensional modelling. Casting. Stone sourcing. Cleaning. Polishing. Setting. About eight hours of bench-level finishing. Quality control. And the final approval our master jeweller signs off himself. Made in Australia, ten stages, no shortcuts.
A wider band under a long stone
Ovals are long. Put one on a wire-thin band and the stone looks borrowed. Nell runs a wider flat shank deliberately so the proportions hold, which also means it takes a knock better than a slim band and keeps its shape over twenty years. The cost is that it won't sit flush against every wedding band, so if you already own one, bring it in and we'll check the fit before we cast.
The same design with a lab grown centre diamond already set is on the Nell lab grown page.
