You’ve
seen the ring. You know what it looks like. But do you know how it came to be?
No, it wasn’t made from the fires of Mount
Doom
Initially, the idea was just to get a ring from a jewelry store. However, I couldn’t find a sapphire that was round in shape. Most shops had them shaped like an egg. Plus they were placed on a ring with a star-shaped crown. While it did look fancy, it was a design that was all too common. Practically almost every store had one in varying sizes. Thankfully, my Uncle Ponch - who accompanied me the whole time I was having the ring made - offered a solution: build the damn thing from scratch.
First, the stone. We went to different jewelry stores asking if they sold loose stones. As expected, most of them said no. Those that did say yes weren’t able to give us something as big as the one my uncle and I got. Luckily, we found what we were looking for in Greenhills, of all places. Had that failed, we probably would’ve ended up somewhere in Binondo, which was something I really didn’t want to put myself through. With the “rock” secured, we moved on to the next item on the list - the ring itself.
Initially, the idea was just to get a ring from a jewelry store. However, I couldn’t find a sapphire that was round in shape. Most shops had them shaped like an egg. Plus they were placed on a ring with a star-shaped crown. While it did look fancy, it was a design that was all too common. Practically almost every store had one in varying sizes. Thankfully, my Uncle Ponch - who accompanied me the whole time I was having the ring made - offered a solution: build the damn thing from scratch.
First, the stone. We went to different jewelry stores asking if they sold loose stones. As expected, most of them said no. Those that did say yes weren’t able to give us something as big as the one my uncle and I got. Luckily, we found what we were looking for in Greenhills, of all places. Had that failed, we probably would’ve ended up somewhere in Binondo, which was something I really didn’t want to put myself through. With the “rock” secured, we moved on to the next item on the list - the ring itself.
