For cocktail rings, going up a half size is the standard recommendation. It is a practical adjustment for settings whose wider bases require more room at the finger than a narrow band would.
Origin Story
Natural diamonds come from a limited geography, including Russia's Yakutia, Botswana, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Angola, and Namibia. Each source produces material with distinctive trace element profiles. For buyers who want to know where a stone was formed, those profiles can sometimes function as provenance indicators in gemological analysis.
Expertise & Authority
Sourcing high-quality jewelry requires relationships built over time. Ross-Simons' expert buyers have spent decades doing exactly that across global jewelry markets, and our accumulated knowledge from that experience shapes every buying decision we make.