When you just gotta have red, and don't feel like coughing up the $5,000 for the real thing, these lab created rubies are just the thing. Intense, bright red -- heck, I can't get the camera to catch the color -- they glow under the camera flash. But I can tell you this, they are red, red, red -- and well cut, throwing gobs of red fire.

This setting has a strong structure and is well built. Look at the thickness of the gold in the prongs and the ring shank. I don't mess around with wimpy rings.

This ring is fairly conservative, classic style. It has two 3pt CZ sidestones as accents, and 4 sets of double prongs. It holds this incredible stone well, without competing with it. A good strong mounting showing off a seriously cool stone.