Écrin

The single stone

Etincelle de Cartier or Albion

Cartier · David Yurman

Étincelle de Cartier solitaire in platinum: a brilliant-cut diamond on a thin band paved with small diamonds, on a pale ground.
Image © Cartier

Cartier

Etincelle de Cartier

A band about a millimetre and a half wide, paved with small diamonds and carrying a larger stone in the same line, so the ring reads as one spark.

Albion ring in 18k yellow gold, 11 mm: a cushion-cut Hampton blue topaz in a frame of pavé diamonds on a split cable shank, on a white ground.
Image © David Yurman

David Yurman

Albion

One generous coloured stone cut as a soft-cornered cushion, held in a slim bezel and often ringed with pavé diamonds.

Everything starts at the band. Cartier paves the shank of Etincelle with small diamonds and runs it straight into the centre stone, princess, pear, emerald or brilliant cut, so that nothing interrupts the line. David Yurman twists the house cable instead and splits it on his Albion rings to lift a cushion of coloured stone in a slim bezel. The Cartier ring reads as one line of light, the Yurman ring as a meeting of texture and colour at the top of the finger.

Cartier Etincelle de Cartier vs David Yurman Albion, facts side by side
FactEtincelle de CartierAlbion
SchoolPlace VendômeNew York
Materialsyellow gold, rose gold, white gold, platinum, diamondsilver, yellow gold, diamond, topaz, quartz, amethyst, onyx, malachite, turquoise
MovesNoNo
From€3,300€900
Top of line€3,300€10,550

Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.