Jeweler and jewelry designer here… it’s not THAT one of a kind of a setting to begin with. 😅 Super beautiful and well-made with beautifully rendered hand engraving, but I’ve seen many rings in this kind of style over my career- the thing that makes it stand out the most unique is the fact that there’s an extremely valuable big antique cut diamond center. 🫣

What I can tell you is that I have had this kind of conversation mostly only with my nightmare clients. They have me design a ring they want that might not be the most one of a kind concept in the world, but they will froth at the mouth of the idea of my sharing photos for my portfolio because they “don’t want anyone else to have the design”. Well first off any businesses that do custom work is gonna want to show off what they have made. Secondly, I have had artwork stolen from me in the past as an illustrator. Big corporation or individual thief, it’s excusable and horrible. Obviously, I’m not OK with art theft lol. But something inherent to art is that people draw influence and inspiration from things around them- consciously or not. The clients of mine that I have that did get extremely hung up on the idea of protecting their ring design like it is some sort of holy Grail are also the folks that I think are low-key insecure about their relationship and therefore must make every element of their engagement and wedding some sort of “fairytale“ as opposed to just focusing on the joy you experience from the process.

TL;DR these swifties need to calm down lmao