Rubies have always travelled with stories attached. In the old trade, names like Burma and Ceylon were shorthand for entire worlds (mines, caravans, ledgers), and a fine red stone reaching a European workshop had usually crossed several of them. We tell you this as history, not as a label: what any ring here can actually claim is written in its own documentation, and nowhere else.

The collection runs from Victorian rings, where a ruby often sits shoulder to shoulder with old cut diamonds, to Art Déco pieces that set red against platinum and straight lines. Every ring is one-of-a-kind, scouted by our founder, then documented at our Milan showroom with hallmark, provenance and gemmological review. If you like to place a piece of vintage jewellery in its decade before you commit to it, our guide to the jewellery eras is the right companion.