Featured HUGE, Mid-Century Modern? Citrine ring?

Bought this huge ring the other day. It appears to me to be mid century modern? Weighs a whopping 22 grams! I think the stone could be citrine but may also be glass? Does anyone know anything more about it? I don't think I have bought a bigger ring than this before! Must have had big hands as I can fit two of my fingers through the ring.

 

Are photos on the way? Great. Excellent. My feeling is that it is an actual stone. Something about the cut is different from the way I have seen glass stones faceted. Citrine with this deep color has always been treated & often starts life as amethyst. The real gemstone people will get here with more informed opinions. Quite a knuckle duster!

 

made for Andre the Giant......

 

Impossible to date without a maker's mark,it could have been made 20 years ago or 2 years ago.Nothing special about the stone,what is the inside diameter of the ring? If you have a lot of time you could search the 4 pattern catalogs for your ring design... http://www.waxpatterns.com/2014 Website/Catalogs on Line.html

 

I would wear that in a New York minute.

 

Age unknown IMO but I know someone who’s making rings just like this today. Almost identical. Same construction, same over the top proportions.

 

When you think about it, how did maker get the stone in there? Think there's a small hole for the culet (the point on the bottom) & then 2 little slots holding the stone at the girdle. There are 'tension' settings, which are what they sound like, the stone held by pressure, but that's not what this is. I'm sure Holly will explain the trick of it.

 

I'd say it's from the 80's.....maybe 70's...
it takes a lot of honest wear ...to show the wear it has....

 

I see a paperweight in your future!

 

No trick,it's just a channel set stone.Cut a couple grooves for the girdle and "hammer" a bit on top of the channel tops to tighten the stone in place.Tension set rings are more involved and too many people copied Stephen's process.

 

It's the bit of 'hammering' I would not have thought of. Thanks for the explanation. Who's Stephen & where is his work sold?

 

I misspelled his name,it is Steven Kretchmer,he passed away in 2006 and his family still operates the business. https://stevenkretchmer.com/

https://www.imagesjewelers.com/steven-kretchmer/

 

A shame about the fatal accident. He looks vibrant & obviously was really thinking about the craft & not just doing the same old. I have 1 tension set ring, but jeweller 'borrowed' the technique.

 

Very nice ring, spart.

Just a note, in jewellery we don't generally speak of MCM. The style is Modernist, and as the others said, it could have been made from the 70s (or 60s) until now.
The Modernist style in jewellery is not as decade defined as in furniture, for instance, hence no MCM.

 

I wasn’t familiar either (I have very little knowledge on contemporary jewelry) but just read his story. The rings I saw were in LA and now I bet they were his. I have never seen anything like them scalewise.

 

OK, where'd you buy it ?
It must have been made special order......for a BIG boy !!

 

Big enough to be a napkin ring!