Hand Jewellery with that “Wow Factor”

What does this site and Saturn have in common? The answer is rings – as both Saturn and this site have more than their fair share of them. At Thoughts from the Sidelines we are no strangers to rings, indeed we have featured more than a few of the more bizarre creations currently available – from rings with memory and rings that transmit a virtual business cards on a simple handshake to rings that could give you that extra loving boost whenever you may need it courtesy of a hidden Viagra pill (no, really).

The time has come, then, to offer a post dedicated to even more items of hand jewelery that slips just outside of the norm as far as styling is concerned for that extra “wow” factor. After all, let’s face it, on the whole rings are rather boring items that seem, in the main, wholly devoid of character. But, as I hope to show in this post, this need not be the case.

The BLT Ring

This highly original, somewhat tongue in cheek ring that allows you to wear an entire BLT sandwich – made up of its separate components – on your finger. Consisting of five individual rings – the bacon ring, the lettuce ring and the tomato ring all sandwiched (excuse the pun) between two bread rings – this somewhat curious item is available at $150 USD in Sterling Silver or $750 USD in gold. Without doubt this is the most expensive BLT you’ll ever pay for.

The BLT Ring’s Elements
(Bread, bacon, lettuce, tomato and bread)

Unfortunately, I cannot establish whether the veggies amongst you can purchase the ring as a four piece set – i.e., without the bacon – or whether those with wheat allergies can leave to two bread rings out and just but a 3 set (thus cutting down on cost).

For more information you can access the corresponding website via this link.

The Two in One Ring

In all honesty, the name does not do this ring any justice at all – which is a shame as I think that this is probably one of the most inspired ring designs I have ever come across. Available from Schmuck-Kunst in either stainless steel, stainless steel and silver or stainless steel and gold this is in essence two rings that slot together to form a whole (which, for a wedding ring, is obviously highly metaphoric).

These rings will set you back from 2000 to 3500 Swiss francs (£847 – £1355 / $1571 – $2514 USD).

There are many more variations (all of which are as visually stunning) available from the official website which you can access here.

The Silver and Concrete Ring

This site offers a host of rings that stray from the established norm in ring design which, lets face it, is hardly a bad thing. Of the numerous designs available via this site this one stuck me as being particularly noteworthy.

Created by the designer Karen Konzuk, this is an urban ring in every way, mixing traditional silver with concrete in a very distinct design which can also be engraved to order, and costs a very reasonable $150 USD.

For a direct link to corresponding page,click here.

The Raw Quartz Ring

An increasing trend of late – and one which either works (and works well) or fails miserably – is the exploration of the fusion between the modern and the natural and the rings available via Cosa Fina Jewellery are particularly fine examples of this new trend.

Featuring explicitly modern rings with raw, uncut crystals, these rings serve to celebrate the natural form of semi-precious and non-precious crystal formations and, though they could no doubt cause some considerable damage in the wrong hands (due to the sharpness of the formations), they look truly wonderful.

The ring in the image above is the Raw Quartz ring, which features natural crystal quartz embedded into a 14 caret peach gold ring and it will set you back $1700 USD. There are many other variations of ring available at the site – from gold topaz to black hematite – which you can link to directly by clicking here.