The Ring that Love Built

I’m shooting Claire and Christopher’s wedding next weekend.  But before the wedding, they asked me to photograph Claire’s ring.  It’s a stunning piece of art, a unique piece that perfectly suits them, and the story behind the ring is incredible.  Christopher envisioned the ring he wanted to give Claire when he proposed to her.  But the problem was he wanted to create a unique mount that would show off the beautiful red Padparadscha Sapphire he had gotten.  Two different jewelers told him they couldn’t make a ring that would safely hold the stone.  So, he did what any creative engineer who works in a prototype lab would do, he made it himself.  He created the design in CAD and then ran a finite element analysis to ensure the ring would produce exactly the right amount of force to safely hold the sapphire, and precision machined it out of titanium. I asked Chris for the CAD images and am posting them below.  Amazing!