Victoria

A cathedral setting raises a five-carat lab-grown diamond in D colour, VS1 clarity, high off the hand, where its size is impossible to miss. A halo rings the centre and side stones run down the band, so the light does not stop at the diamond but spreads out along the whole setting. The height is what gives Victoria its sense of occasion: the stone is held up and presented rather than simply worn. It has the bearing of old court jewellery, scaled for someone who means to be seen wearing it.