When Hugo passed away last year, I wanted something to remember him by and though I looked through countless pieces of “pet grief” jewelry, ultimately I wanted something that was also relatively pretty and didn’t feel too cheesy. Luckily, I work at a wonderful Canadian establishment called Birks that offers a custom design option called “Birks Bespoke” that allows you to create a piece from scratch like I did or transform an existing piece. I thought I would share my experience as I receive the question often at work as well as help clients with their custom design pieces.
One thing that I encounter with clients who are new to custom design is that custom is generally never going to be cheaper than buying out of the showcase so if you are trying to copy something from Harry Winston or Tiffany’s, you are most likely going to pay at least what it is in the showcase or more. This comes down mostly to the fact that custom is made just for you and getting a piece from a store is mass produced (to a certain degree). There is just one wax/mould that is made for your piece vs. multiples that are made for a retailer which means that costs are amortized over many vs. your one custom piece absorbing all of the costs.
So, with all of this in mind, I set off to design a ring that would honour Hugo. Since he was born in August, I decided that a birthstone ring might be nice and then when I remembered that both Hugo and Hemingway were born in August, I wanted a ring with two stones to honour the foster brothers I adopted together in 2015. Hemingway LOVED being with Hugo so much and they were often together whenever I came home from work so it made me smile thinking they could be “together with me” in this way.
Initially, I had also been thinking of doing a more asymmetrical look using one pear-shaped peridot and one oval-shaped spinel (both August birthstones) to represent each of the boys, but upon reviewing I decided to keep them both the same stones. I do not own any peridot rings so I thought it would be more unique to have a green stone ring. There was quite a bit of back and forth and eventually, I decided on two 0.70ct pear-shaped peridots that would be surrounded by pave diamonds. I chose to have the ring made in 14K white gold vs 18K or platinum to keep the cost down. This wasn’t going to be an everyday ring so I knew that going with white gold wouldn’t be too much of an issue when it came to the rhodium coming off (when the rhodium wears off, white gold jewelry looks yellowish). Platinum would have been around $1000 more and because I went with a predominantly metal-showing design, as platinum wears, it gets a bit of a brushed finish (white gold stays shiny) which I did not want.
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