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London · Liverpool, since 1798

Boodles

A Liverpool family firm, six generations in, whose head of design Rebecca Hawkins takes her cues from weather, gardens and paintings. Diamonds scattered like rain across open platinum bands, a ring of diamonds that flips over to plain gold, petals beaded with dew.

Ideas from €2,502. Boodles site

Raindance Classic ring in platinum: round diamonds of different sizes in collet settings scattered across open bands
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Raindance

2000 From €5,128
Roulette flip ring in white gold: a small circle of diamonds held upright on a pavé diamond band
Image © Boodles

Roulette

From €3,127
Blossom Triple ring in white gold: three linked blossoms with diamond-set petals across the top of the band
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Blossom

2016 From €2,502

The conversation

Boodles answering

  • Possession ring in rose gold: a turning band chased with fine vertical lines and set with one diamond, on a transparent ground.

    Roulette after Possession, Piaget

    Boodles takes the ring you turn and makes it flip: a circle of diamonds swivels on the band to show its other face.

  • Frivole

    Blossom after Frivole, Van Cleef & Arpels

    Blossom keeps the gold flowers small and beads their petals with diamonds like dew.

  • Winston Cluster

    Raindance after Winston Cluster, Harry Winston

    Raindance shares the Cluster's rule that the stones, not the metal, draw the piece, and scatters them like rain across open bands.