0.58 ct Diamond & Ruby Lobe Stud Earrings in 14k Yellow and White Gold | Diamond Tales

14k Yellow and White Gold Stud Earrings. 34 Round Diamonds, 0.27 carats. 68 Round Rubies, 0.31 carats. 0.58 carats total.

One hundred and two stones in a pair of earrings that still sit flat against the lobe. That is the quiet achievement here — 34 round diamonds and 68 round rubies set into two-tone 14k gold, close enough together that the surface reads as continuous color and light rather than as individual stones.

Rubies at this size are cut from the same corundum that produces sapphire; the red comes from chromium, and it is chromium that also makes ruby fluoresce faintly under daylight, which is why good rubies seem to glow from within rather than simply reflect. Paired against white diamonds, the contrast does something neither stone does alone.

These are the earrings you put in before you decide what you are wearing. They work with everything, and they carry more presence than their size suggests.

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