Toi et Moi
Out Of This World Beauty.
Description
Toi et Moi is an Antique Platinum Engagement Ring from the Art Deco Era. This Ring features a Shield Step Cut Diamond gauged in setting at .70 carats bezel set and graded F-G Color and SI2 Clarity. A Shield Step Cut Natural Sapphire is mirrored on the opposite side and gauged at .80 carats. Between the Shield Cut stones is a bezel set Baguette Diamond gauged at .35 carats and graded F-G Color and VS Clarity. This Ring if further adorned by two bezel set baguette Diamonds on the shoulders and fifty (50) prong set single cut Diamonds with an additional combined total weight of .95 carats and graded F-G Color and VS Clarity. Milgrained edges complete the setting. This Ring is a size 5 1/4″. Circa 1920.
This centuries-old engagement ring dates to 1796, when Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to Empress Josephine de Beauharnais with the first ‘Toi et Moi’ ring. Meaning ‘you and me’ in French, this classic style comprises two diamonds or gemstones; sitting side by side on a band to represent the meeting of two lovers.
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