Diamond ring is mostly a creation of the 20th century. The boom of diamond rings started about a decade before year 1900 and is still in march at first decade after year 2000, with one hundred years in between. Diamonds were known 500 years ago, but because of their rarity, diamond ring was a jewelry affordable only by royalty and very wealthy people

Diamond ring came out to masses and raises its popularity with industrialization of the world. At that time, diamonds supply was sufficient, due to new sources discovered in South America and South Africa. With steady supply, jewelry makers in Europe and America marked a new start in making diamond jewelry. It was a run up and diamond ring was ahead of all. The favorability of diamond rings increases significantly just before and after World War Two. From that time up to today, diamond ring popularity raises each decade

Ring with diamonds became the preferred ring to be presented as an engagement ring; diamond wedding rings became an often used accessory at wedding ceremonies. Diamond rings are, in fact, the newest anniversary rings. And also diamond ring became a perfect and common gift to be presented to a love one at any occasion

Diamond rings are usually made of gold, platinum, silver, titanium and of course, they're ornate with diamonds, which is the most important part of their composition. Diamonds present the ultimate adornment in contemporary time. The ability of diamonds to sparkle on sunlight, the durability making them to last forever, the beauty of their look, built up the cense of perfection. People associate diamonds with best fillings like love, charm, adornment, trust, commitment. Diamond in a beautiful diamond mounting makes all these fillings even stronger, as a diamond ring accentuates, points to an event as an engagement proposal, a wedding or an anniversary celebration, a birthday date or simply an expression of respect and love to someone

Diamonds appear in spectacular shapes and cuts. Most often in the nature diamonds are found round or oval shaped. In shops diamonds are cut in many shapes, like brilliant cut, princess cut, marquise cut, emerald cut and also pear, heart, oval, round cut and other. A princess-cut diamond may have from 57 to 70 facets. A perfect diamond is a brilliant cut, having 58 facets. Diamonds are measured by size and carat weight. One carat is equal to 0.05 grams. Clarity is how clear a diamond is, the best one is considered, if no inclusions can be seen. The clarity grades price diamonds and the best popular are from FL to SI2. Diamonds are colorless or near colorless. The value of diamonds is determined based on brilliance of the cut, size, weight, clarity and colorlessness

Gold, platinum and silver also known as precious metals and titanium are base materials for diamond rings. Gold is well known in jewelry for millenniums. The pure gold is 24K and is not used in jewelry due to its malleability. To obtain harder versions of gold is added cupper, silver or nickel so it make 14K, 18K gold which means 14 or 18 parts of gold from total 24 parts. In other countries different standards are used for diamond mountings, like 10K, 9K gold which, of course, is less pure gold. Jewelry gold is usially yellow and white. Red gold is mostly used in Russia.

Platinum, is also a common material for diamond rings. It was discovered in 18th century, is durable and strong, is white and shine, is a rare metal, more expensive than gold. Platinum 900 is used for quality jewelry, and means 900 parts mixed with 100 parts of other metals like palladium and iridium. Platinum is practically non scratch metal.

Titanium is the most recant material used in jewelry, specifically in ring making. There are various titanium grades, like aircraft Ti-6/4, extra hard Ti-6/6/2, commercial pure titanium Ti-999. This metal has the highest strength, the lowest weight, is neutral to human body, and does not irritate even the most sensitive skin. Titanium rings usually have white color just like white gold, they a lot lighter then platinum rings, they more durable than any other rings. Titanium rings mostly come with tension settings for diamonds, pearls, sapphires, and other gemstones. A large variety of titanium diamond rings, engagement rings, wedding rings, wedding bands are in demand this days and becoming popular all over the world. Because of low weight, nice look, easy to clean, titanium rings are very practicable and can be wearied in every day base.

Silver was used for jewelry since the Bronze Age. Silvers malleability, ductility and availability made it ideal for people to use it in ornamental jewelry from even prehistorically times. Pure silver is usually mixed with other metals. Silver has a white sheen and tarnishes after exposure to air, it oxidizes. In our days there are many variations of silver, depending of how many parts of pure silver it contains in one thousand parts. The most often for jewelry is used silver 925, what means 92.5% silver. Silver 800, 80% silver is used primarily for casting purposes