Kite-Cut On Bedrock
A kite-shaped salt-and-pepper diamond, on a shank modelled from rock.
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BESPOKE ENGAGEMENT RINGS · SINGAPORE
ENGAGEMENT RINGS
One ring. One moment she'll remember for the rest of her life. Skip the sales pitch — here's what actually matters.
ONE OF ONE
SHE IS NOT LIKE ANYONE ELSE. THE RING SHOULD NOT BE EITHER.
Before You Buy An Engagement Ring
SHE ALREADY KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS
The hard part of this is not choosing a diamond. It is deciding how much she gets to see before the day.
96%
of women in serious relationships said they wanted some involvement in choosing the ring — not a total surprise.
The Knot × De Beers Group — Engagement Expectations study, 2021She has already pictured it
Three in four had already thought about their ring before anyone started shopping. Learning what she likes is not spoiling it. It is catching up.
The surprise belongs to the proposal
Two-thirds wanted it planned in advance and somewhere private. Guard the when, the where and the how. The shape of a setting is not a secret worth keeping.
You decide how much she sees
Some bring her in from the first sketch. Others bring only her saved posts and her sister's phone number. Both end at the same ring.
Guessing wrong costs more than asking
A ring she quietly wants altered is the expensive outcome. An afternoon of paying attention removes almost all of that risk.
Which means the real question was never what to buy. It is what she is like.
How To Choose An Engagement Ring
WHAT ACTUALLY GOES INTO THE RING
You do not need to know anything about jewellery. You need to know her. Bring us these six things and we can design from them.
01
Her Hand
An elongated stone flatters a shorter finger. A heavy band overwhelms a slim one. Almost nobody thinks about this, and she feels it every single day.
02
Her Jewellery Box
Warm gold or white metal. Delicate or deliberate. She has been telling you for years. Platinum on a woman who only wears yellow gold reads as somebody else's.
03
Her Habits
A surgeon, a climber and a pianist do not wear the same setting. Anything that snags comes off, and a ring that lives in a drawer is the only real waste.
04
Her Dream Ring
Not the carat. The shape. Screenshots, saved posts, the friend who already knows. Shape is the decision every other decision hangs off.
05
Her Story
The flower from her tattoo. The book she has reread four times. The place she is from. This is the part that makes her cry, and the one thing no display case can sell you.
06
Your Budget
Tell us the number honestly and early. We design to it rather than around it — the difference between considered and compromised.
Bring us four of the six and we have enough to start.
Start The Conversation
Engagement Ring Settings
SIX WAYS TO HOLD A STONE
The setting decides how a ring reads across a room, and how it lives on a hand that never takes it off. Start here — or bring us something that is not on this list.
01The Classic
Solitaire · Prongs
One stone, held up in the air, with nothing else in the frame. Claws use the least metal of any setting, so the most light reaches the diamond.
02The Most Protective
Solitaire · Bezel
The stone rimmed completely in metal. That rim guards the whole edge of the diamond — the one to choose for a hand that works, climbs, and never comes off.
03The Most Presence
Halo
A crown of small stones ringing the centre. It makes the centre stone read noticeably larger than its carat alone, and catches light from every angle.
04The Most Architectural
Three-Stone
Past, present, future — or simply three stones that balance. Wide across the finger, and the side stones can be cut differently to the centre.
05The Most Personal
Toi et Moi
You and me. Two stones, two cuts, side by side — traditionally opposites, like a marquise set against a baguette.
06The Best Profile
Cathedral
Arched shoulders lift the stone like vaulting. This is the setting you notice from the side, not just from above.
None of these is a catalogue number. Each one gets built around your stone, your hand, your idea.
Start Your Ring
ARCHIVE
ENGAGEMENT RINGS WE HAVE MADE
Leaves Of Lórien
An emerald-cut centre, with marquise diamonds cut as leaves on the shoulders.
Ruby Three-Stone, Held By A Letter
A ruby centre between two emerald-cut diamonds, on a gallery formed by the Hebrew letter Hei.
The Maki Halo
An emerald-cut diamond ringed in rounds — proportioned to read as a maki roll.
Kite-Cut On Bedrock
A kite-shaped salt-and-pepper diamond, on a shank modelled from rock.
Leaves Of Lórien
An emerald-cut centre, with marquise diamonds cut as leaves on the shoulders.
Ruby Three-Stone, Held By A Letter
A ruby centre between two emerald-cut diamonds, on a gallery formed by the Hebrew letter Hei.
The Maki Halo
An emerald-cut diamond ringed in rounds — proportioned to read as a maki roll.
Kite-Cut On Bedrock
A kite-shaped salt-and-pepper diamond, on a shank modelled from rock.
Leaves Of Lórien
An emerald-cut centre, with marquise diamonds cut as leaves on the shoulders.
Ruby Three-Stone, Held By A Letter
A ruby centre between two emerald-cut diamonds, on a gallery formed by the Hebrew letter Hei.
The Maki Halo
An emerald-cut diamond ringed in rounds — proportioned to read as a maki roll.
Four real commissions. Open any one for the film, the 3D file it was cut from, and the story it came out of.
THE NARRATIVE // ENGAGEMENT // 001
Kite-Cut On Bedrock
He is the calm one. She is the one who moves. The ring had to hold both.
The shank is modelled on rock texture — the bedrock she leans on. The centre is a kite-cut salt-and-pepper diamond, chosen deliberately over the clean white round everybody else picks.
THE NARRATIVE // ENGAGEMENT // 002
Leaves Of Lórien
The books they both grew up on, made wearable.
A shared love of literature — both devoted readers of the same trilogy, with a particular attachment to the original editions. The marquise shoulder diamonds are shaped after the Leaf of Lórien.
THE NARRATIVE // ENGAGEMENT // 003
Ruby Three-Stone, Held By A Letter
A shared faith, holding the ring up from underneath.
The ruby is her birthstone. The gallery is the Hei — the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and a symbol shared by their faith and their church. It carries the stones.
THE NARRATIVE // ENGAGEMENT // 004
The Maki Halo
They bonded over food. Japanese, and maki above all.
The emerald-cut centre is the fill. The halo of round diamonds is the rice around it. Nobody has to be told — but they know.
Choosing The Diamond Or Gemstone
SHAPE FIRST, THEN THE FOUR CS
Asked what mattered most about the stone, women in the Engagement Expectations study pointed to shape, style and setting — not carat. So start where she starts.
Cuts We Set
Round
Oval
Emerald
Princess
Cushion
Marquise
Pear
Radiant
Trillion
Baguette
Not a menu — a starting vocabulary. Mixed shapes in one ring are routine here, and a stone you already own can be reset into any of them.
The Grading Scales, And Where We Sit On Them
Cut
How well it was faceted. Governs sparkle more than anything else, and the only grade readable across a room.
IdealExcellentVery GoodGoodFairPoor
Colour
D to F is colourless, G to J near colourless, K to M faintly warm, N to Z visibly tinted.
DEFGHIJKLMN–RS–Z
Clarity
The marks inside the stone. From VS upward you need magnification to find them at all.
FLIFVVS1VVS2VS1VS2SI1SI2I1I2I3
Carat
Weight, not size. An oval wears larger than a round of equal weight.
Under 0.15ct, GIA will not issue a grading report at all
A stone that is already set cannot be graded — the mounting hides colour and clarity, and makes an exact weight impossible. Any stone you want certified has to be graded loose, before it goes anywhere near a setting.
Our Minimum Standards
Full diamond guide
- D Colour
- VVS2 Clarity
- Excellent Cut
That is the bottom of our range, not the top of it.
It matters most with lab-grown. The technology has moved fast enough that top grades are no longer the premium they were — so there is no good reason to accept less. If a lab-grown stone is being offered to you below D and VVS, you are being sold older output at current prices.
It Does Not Have To Be A Diamond
SapphireEmeraldRubySpinelTourmalineMorganiteAquamarineBlack JadeBirthstones
Coloured stones are not a downgrade — they are a different decision. We have set spinel and tourmalines, black jade, and a ring carrying one birthstone for each of a client's five children. If she has a colour she has loved since she was a child, start there instead.
Custom Engagement Ring Design
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE PUT INTO A RING
Nobody has ever walked in and asked us for a six-prong solitaire. They arrive with something true about the two of them, and the design work is turning that into metal. These are seven of them.
The symbol that brought them together
They told us
A faith they share was what drew them close in the first place. They wanted it in the ring, but not stuck on the side as an ornament.
So the ring
The head that holds the diamond is the symbol itself. The stone sits inside it — so the thing that brought them together is the thing carrying the stone.
Her initials, holding the stone
They told us
She had always loved Harry Winston. He did not want her wearing another house’s monogram for the rest of her life — he wanted the ring to be about her.
So the ring
Her own initials became the prongs. His are hidden along the gallery rail underneath, out of sight, holding the whole setting up.
Two temperaments, one ring
They told us
She is outgoing and adventurous. He is her bedrock — steady, patient, hard to move.
So the ring
A kite-cut salt-and-pepper diamond for her, set into a shank carved like rock for him. She sits on top of what he is.
Both star signs, structurally
They told us
She is a Gemini. He is a Capricorn, and his part in this has always been to hold her up.
So the ring
Her sign forms the prongs around the stone. His forms the gallery directly beneath them, carrying the setting from below.
A Gengar, holding the diamond
They told us
A diamond engagement ring, with Gengar in it.
So the ring
The character is the setting. He wraps around the stone and carries it — arms, ears and tail doing the work prongs would normally do, rather than sitting beside the diamond as a charm.
Two Thinkers, holding her birthstone
They told us
She loves philosophy. He wanted the ring to say that, not just be pretty.
So the ring
Two seated figures of Rodin's Thinker face each other across the setting, on a band carved end to end with Roman acanthus. The topaz between them — her birthstone — is what they are both contemplating.
The classic, done properly
Not every commission is a sculpture. An emerald-cut stone ringed in a full halo, on pave shoulders — the most traditional thing we make, and the least forgiving. There is nowhere to hide on a ring like this: every small stone has to sit level and evenly spaced, or the eye catches it instantly.
Where People Usually Start
A faith you shareA place you keep going back toHer initialsYour initialsA star signA tattooA book you both loveA petA texture from somewhere realA date only you two useA flower that means something
Not one of these started with a setting. They started with something true about two people, and the metal came afterwards.
Tell Us YoursWhere The Money Leaks
YOU ARE BEING SOLD THINGS NOBODY CAN SEE
We own the magnifier, the UV lamp and the calibrated light box. They are real instruments and we use them every week — to grade stones before we buy them. What they are not is a reason for you to spend more. Every demonstration in a viewing room shows you a version of the diamond that stops existing the moment it goes on her hand.
What you are paying extra for
- A flawless grade you need 10× magnification to confirm
- A colour grade that vanishes once the stone is set in gold
- Fluorescence, demonstrated under a lamp that exists in no restaurant
- A laser serial number too small to read without a scope
- Forty minutes spent on a mark the size of a full stop
What she will actually see
- Cut — the only thing readable from across a room
- How it catches restaurant light on a hand that is moving
- Whether it suits her hand and the way she uses it
- Whether it is a ring nobody else has
- Whether you were thinking about her when you chose it
The rule we give every client: buy the cut, then stop where the eye stops. As a rule of thumb that is around VS2 clarity and G to H colour — past that you are buying a number on a certificate, not a better ring.
This is not an argument against grading. We grade every stone we buy, and we will hand you an independent GIA or IGI report for yours — never our own appraisal. The instruments are how a jeweller does the job properly. The performance around them is how a shop moves your budget onto the parts you will never see again.
Engagement Ring Cost In Singapore
WHAT TO SPEND, AND WHERE IT SHOWS
There is no rule. The one you have heard was written by an advertising department.
The salary rule is a slogan
Two or three months' salary was a twentieth-century advertising campaign, not etiquette. Nobody is checking, and nobody worth marrying will ask.
Cut is where money becomes visible
A smaller, superbly cut stone beats a larger dull one in every light she will ever stand in. Spend here before anywhere else.
Colour and clarity are where it hides
Above VS clarity you need magnification to find anything. Above roughly G colour, the metal changes what you see more than the grade does.
Shape buys presence more cheaply than carat
Oval, marquise and pear spread their weight along the finger, so they read larger than a round of the same carat. The cheapest way to gain size.
Lab-grown or natural — we set both
Both are chemically diamond. Most of our clients now choose lab-grown — the same budget buys noticeably more stone. Natural costs more and holds resale better.
Set the ceiling before you fall in love
Every decision after the number is easier. Tell us first rather than last, and the design comes back inside your range instead of above it.
Spend it where she will see it. Save it where she never will.
5 Steps To Getting Engaged
How We Make Your Ring
5 STEPS TO GETTING ENGAGED
01
01 // CONSULTATION
Uncovering your vision, style, and story.
02
02 // PROTOTYPE
Try on a physical model to ensure you absolutely love the fit and look before we cast it in solid gold.
03
03 // CRAFTSMANSHIP
Meticulously handcrafted using the finest 18k gold and brilliant gemstones.
04
04 // THE REVEAL
Your fantasy, materialized and ready for collection.
05
05 // THE PROPOSAL
The one part we do not build. Everything above exists so this moment only has to be about her.
Our Past Commissions
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ASKED TO MAKE
Not a catalogue. These are engagement rings and bands real people asked us for.
01Engagement Ring
Two of Rodin's Thinkers, holding her birthstone between them.
02Engagement Ring
Lord of the Rings — the shoulder diamonds cut as the Leaf of Lórien.
03Engagement Ring
Their shared faith as the gallery — the Hebrew letter Hei, holding up a ruby.
04Engagement Ring
A kite-cut salt-and-pepper diamond, on a shank textured like bedrock.
05Engagement Ring
Their favourite maki roll, as an emerald cut ringed in diamonds.
06Engagement Ring
Her initial, hidden in the head of the setting where only she would find it.
07Engagement Ring
Five carats, oval, on pavé prongs. Size mattered.
08Engagement Ring
Prongs formed from her initials, with his hidden under the stone.
Not one of these existed before someone asked.
Tell Us Yours
IN A CLIENT'S WORDS
— Samuel Chong — Custom Engagement Ring
The team took time to get to know us personally and our story before weaving these elements into the most beautiful ring. With NDAG, the only limit is your imagination.
Real Commissions, Real Clients
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Engagement Ring FAQ
WHAT EVERYONE ASKS FIRST
How do I find out her ring size without asking her?
Borrow a ring she already wears on that finger and have it measured, or ask whoever knows her hands best. Our ring size guide covers the methods that actually work and the ones that quietly don't. Size can also be confirmed at the prototype stage, before anything is cast.
See The Ring Size GuideShould she be involved in choosing the ring?
The research says most women want to be. In The Knot and De Beers Group's Engagement Expectations study, 96% wanted some involvement in choosing the ring, and three in four had already thought about it. Involving her in the design does not spoil the proposal — the date, the place and the moment stay entirely yours.
How far in advance should I start?
It depends on the design. Resetting an existing stone moves faster than a sculpted piece modelled from scratch. Tell us your proposal date in the first conversation and we will tell you honestly what is achievable before you commit to anything.
What if she doesn't like it?
You see it long before she does. Every commission goes through a physical prototype you can hold and try on before anything is cast in gold or platinum, so nothing is committed while it can still be changed.
Lab-grown or natural?
We set both. A lab-grown diamond is a real diamond — same composition, same behaviour in light, not an imitation — and it is what most of our clients now choose, because the same budget buys a noticeably larger or better stone. Natural costs more and holds its resale value better. Neither answer is wrong; tell us which of those matters more to you and we will work to it.
How do I know the stone is what I'm told it is?
Ask for an independent laboratory report — GIA or IGI — rather than an in-house appraisal written by whoever is selling it to you. A seller's own appraisal is not a neutral document. That advice applies to us as much as to anyone else you talk to.
Can you use a stone or a ring we already own?
Often, yes. Bring it in and we will tell you honestly what can be reused, what cannot, and what it could become. Inherited stones frequently make better rings than new ones because the story is already in them.
Can the ring be resized later?
Most can. Some cannot: full eternity bands, tension settings and heavily patterned shanks all resist resizing by design. If her size is likely to change, say so early and we will design for it rather than around it.
Do you make the matching wedding band?
Yes, and it is easier when both are considered together — a band designed afterwards has to work around a ring that never anticipated it. Several of our commissions have been the engagement ring and the bands as a single project.
See Wedding Bands
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