Two round pearls sitting side by side at the top of an open band, close enough to touch but each on its own arm of gold. The band splits below them and comes back together behind the finger, which is where the name comes from.

The difficulty in a ring with two pearls is that the eye immediately measures one against the other. I carve the two arms in wax so both pearls sit at exactly the same height, and the pair reads as one form rather than two separate stones. Any lean you see in a photograph is the angle of the camera, not the ring.

Each pearl is drilled and pinned to its own arm with a gold post bonded with a dedicated pearl adhesive. Nothing crosses either surface.

One face of the gold carries a fine brushed texture; the other is left highly polished, so the two arms separate visually as they wind around the finger.

The pearls are white freshwater rounds, 7 to 8 mm, matched by hand for size and lustre. The ring measures about 17 mm across at its widest point, and the open back lets it sit close against other rings on the same finger.

Not currently in stock. I make it to order with another matched pair from my own stock. Made in 18K or 14K gold, in yellow, white, or rose.

Two more open rings built around a pair of pearls: Face To Face, where the pearls sit on a twist facing opposite ways, and Toi et Moi, where the two pearls are deliberately unequal.

Made by hand in my Jerusalem studio.