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Kohestar Engagement Ring | Sapphire Shamseh Star Setting

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Collection

Vasl

Metal

18ct yellow gold

Gemstone

Sapphire

Motif

Shamseh

Occasion

Bridal

Reference

SL-MH-ER05

Lead time

4 to 6 weeks from order confirmation

Craftsmanship

Made to order, by commission

Studio

Designed in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

Shown as a design visualisation. Made to order, by commission.

Some stars live in mountains.

Persian astronomers believed the Alborz peaks held stars within them, visible only to those willing to climb. کوه‌ستار (Kohestar): the mountain star. Not metaphor, but a cosmology that placed the sacred inside the physical world.

At the heart of this ring sits a deep cornflower oval blue sapphire, natural and unheated, encircled by an eighteen-carat white gold frame shaped as a شمسه (shamseh): the eight-pointed Persian star found in the tilework of Isfahan’s Friday Mosque and repeated across five centuries of architectural devotion. The sapphire is the star. The shamseh is the mountain.

Every point of the octagram is set with round brilliant diamonds in pavé and grain settings, the white gold carrying their fire outward from the blue centre. A split-shank band twists gently before joining the setting, a quiet reference to mountain paths that converge at a single peak.

I designed Kohestar as a piece of wearable cosmology: a named thing with a specific story, not a category. If you choose this ring, I will source the sapphire personally, present you with candidates, and build the piece around the stone that belongs to you.

Specification

Centre stone: Oval blue sapphire, natural, 2.0–3.0ct, cornflower to royal blue, eye-clean

Origin preference: Kashmir, Ceylon, or Madagascar

Setting: Bezel-and-claw hybrid within an eight-pointed شمسه (shamseh) star frame

Accent diamonds: Round brilliant, pavé and grain-set throughout all eight star points, approx. 0.75–0.85ct total

Metal: 18ct white gold

Shank: Split-shank, gently twisted

Profile: Medium-high, statement centrepiece

Pricing Guide

2.0ct Ceylon sapphire: from £4,500

2.5ct Kashmir origin sapphire: from £5,500

Bespoke (customer-supplied stone): consultation

Each Kohestar is made to order. Please select your ring size and contact me to begin the stone selection process.

Guaranteed, by the maker

The What-You-Approved Guarantee

The piece that reaches you is the piece you approved, or it is remade at my cost.

The Maker's Lifetime Guarantee

Any fault in the making, put right at my cost, for the life of the piece. No registration, no strings.

Set Stones, Guaranteed

Accent stones replaced and reset free for two years, and a free first-anniversary check and clean.

The File for Life

Your piece keeps its studio file for as long as you own it, and its design work is never charged twice.

Every guarantee here is in addition to your statutory rights, never in place of them. The full wording.