Diamond Earring Settings, 18K White Gold
Product code: BT-11187
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A pair of 18K white gold earring settings sold without center stones: in the middle of each is an upright four-post-prong head taking a round stone of about four to five millimeters. Around it are two halo rings of natural diamonds, the small inner ring sitting high and the larger outer ring lower, creating a lobed outline. On the back, a five-lobed flower base and screw backs.
Jewelry details
This is a pair of earring settings — a piece sold in an unfinished state. In the middle of each are four post prongs standing upright, tips cut flat, and beneath them a still-empty head. The customer chooses their own pair of center stones, and the jeweler sets them afterward. Around that empty head are two pre-set rings of stones: the small inner ring sitting high, the larger outer ring sitting lower, creating a lobed outline like a flower.
The listed price does NOT include the pair of center stones
This piece is sold as a setting: the gold and all the accent stones in both halo rings are already there, while the two center stones are not. The head takes round stones of about four to five millimeters. Photos may make you picture a stone in the middle — but that spot is empty, and that's the intention of the design.
With earring settings, the buying order should be reversed
Buying a ring setting, either path works: choose the setting first and then find a stone, or have a stone and then order the setting. Earring settings are different. They need two center stones, and those two must match — so it isn't searching for one stone twice, but searching for a pair once.
The difference lies in supply. A single stone of the right size is always available. A matching pair within exactly the size range this head takes depends on the lot and the timing — some weeks yes, some weeks no. So:
The way people get stuck
Take the settings home first, then leisurely look for a pair of stones. The result is usually waiting — the settings sit in their box for months because no satisfying pair in the right size range has been found.
The way to do it
Settle the pair of stones first — or have the store reserve a pair — and then take the settings. Settings can always be made; the pair of stones is what you have to wait for.
If you already have a pair of loose stones at home, bring both in to measure before deciding. It takes just a few minutes to know whether they fall within the range this head takes, and whether the jeweler needs to adjust anything.
An empty head is the only chance to see inside
This is a benefit of buying settings that almost no one mentions. On earrings with the center stones already set, the stone sits sealing the mouth of the head — everything beneath is hidden forever. Buy the settings and it's the opposite: you can look straight down to the base of the head, just once, before it closes for good.
Three spots worth examining while you still can:
Once checked, you can be fully at ease, since the inside can never be checked again. That's also why a well-made setting costs more than a carelessly made one, in places photos never show.
Two halo rings, two stone sizes — and the ratio between them is a narrow window
The outer ring uses stones about one and a half times larger than the inner ring. That number sounds arbitrary, but in fact it falls within a fairly narrow range, and straying from that range fails in two opposite directions.
At one and a half times, the two rings are just different enough for the eye to separate, yet close enough to read as one continuous mass. Also, because the outer ring uses large stones, each one protrudes a little past the gold body — they're what draw the lobed outline, which makes this piece look like a flower rather than a circle.
How to check: step back about an arm's length. At that distance you should still be able to count two layers of light around the empty spot — if you see only one patch, the ratio between the two rings is off.
The flower-shaped base at the back isn't for looks
Turn it over and you'll see a flat base pierced into five lobes, and only then the post. No one sees this detail when worn, and it doesn't make the piece any more beautiful. It's there for bearing area.
A face with two rings of stones is a fairly heavy mass for its size. If there were only the post at the back, all that weight would concentrate on a point as small as a pen tip, and the earlobe would be pressed into a dip around it. The base spreads the force over a much wider area — but made as a solid round disc it would add weight and be stuffy. Piercing it into lobes gets both:
A wide footprint without adding gold — the lobes reach far from the center so they rest on a wide area of skin, while the gold removed between the lobes keeps the piece light.
Gaps between the lobes keep it airy — the back of the earlobe is a spot that sweats often. Metal pressed flat across the whole area is stuffy and easily leaves red marks.
In exchange: the lobe edges must be rounded — five lobes are ten edges, and any edge not rounded presses into the skin. Run a fingertip around the base and you'll know at once.
Behind the base is a threaded post and a screw disc — the most secure fastening for a heavy-faced piece, since the disc grips the thread rather than holding by spring tension alone.
Buy at Thảo Linh Jewelry
A pair of 18K white gold earring settings, two halo rings set with natural diamonds, with four-prong heads awaiting a pair of center stones. See them and try sizing stones in person at our showroom, 120 Pham Thi Tanh, Chanh Hung Ward, Ho Chi Minh City — hotline 0945 006 001.
Advice on choosing a pair of center stones to fit the heads, and we set stones customers bring in.
12-month warranty, free lifetime polishing and ultrasonic cleaning.
An open buy-back and exchange policy at fixed rates, stated clearly at the time of purchase.
Visit the showroom, hold one and look straight down into the head — three seconds that say more about the craftsmanship than any photo.
Lab-grown diamonds that fit this setting
Round shape · 6 in stock
