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The Tiffany Setting engagement ring: a round brilliant diamond held by six prongs on a platinum band engraved Tiffany & Co., on a white ground.
Image © Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co. · 1886

The Tiffany Setting

Six slender prongs lift a round brilliant diamond clear of the band, so the stone, not the mount, carries the ring.

Introduced
1886
Designer
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Idea
The single stone
School
New York
Materials
platinum, diamond

The Tiffany Setting at Tiffany & Co.

The story

Charles Lewis Tiffany introduced the setting in 1886, when engagement stones still sat low in heavily ornamented gold. Raising the diamond on six prongs let light reach it from every side, and the design was copied so widely that the house issued public warnings against counterfeits. It became the outline most people still draw when they draw an engagement ring.

The ladder

  1. Signature The Tiffany Setting engagement ring in platinum with a round brilliant diamond Not published

Prices as published by Tiffany & Co. in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Solitaire 1895 in platinum: a brilliant-cut diamond held by four claws on a plain band, on a pale ground.

    Answered by · 1895

    Solitaire 1895, Cartier (1895)

    Nine years after Tiffany's six prongs, Cartier raised its one stone on four claws above a plain band.

  • Le Cube Diamant open ring in yellow gold: two small open cubes, each holding a diamond, facing each other, on a white ground.

    Answered by · 1971

    Le Cube Diamant, dinh van (1971)

    Dinh Van keeps the single round diamond but holds it inside an open gold cube, the circle set against the square.

  • Serti sur Vide ring in white gold: two open bands joined by a short bar, with a pear-cut diamond held above them, on a light grey ground.

    Answered by · 2014

    Serti sur Vide, Repossi (2014)

    Repossi takes the stone lifted clear of the band to its limit and hides the setting, so the diamond hovers on nothing.

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