Lepage Zénith ring in white gold, yellow diamond and white diamonds

The essentials

• Ring in 750 millièmes white gold
• Setting in 750 millièmes yellow gold
• Emerald-cut yellow diamond, 2.3 carats, GIA-certified Fancy Vivid Yellow, SI1 clarity
• Surround: 74 brilliant-cut diamonds F VS2, 0.73 carat (total weight)
• Surround: 8 baguette-cut diamonds F VS2, 0.63 carat (total weight)
• Mount weight: 7.84 grams
• Ring size: 53

The Zénith ring

The Zénith ring is built around a 2.3-carat emerald-cut yellow diamond, GIA-certified Fancy Vivid Yellow — the highest classification awarded to the most intensely coloured yellow diamonds. Its yellow gold setting, nestled within a white gold mount, plays an essential role: it reflects and amplifies the solar hue of the stone, where white gold alone would simply underscore the contrast. Around it, 82 brilliant-cut and baguette-cut white diamonds form a surround of absolute precision, designed to bring the central stone into its fullest light without ever competing with it.

The yellow diamond

A yellow diamond owes its colour to the presence of nitrogen within its crystal structure, captured during its formation billions of years underground. The higher the concentration, the more intense the hue. The Fancy Vivid Yellow classification awarded by the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) represents the highest level of intensity recognised in international gemology — a designation granted to a vanishingly small proportion of yellow diamonds ever mined. The emerald cut, with its wide stepped facets, opens a window onto the depth of the stone: it does not chase the sparkle of brilliance, it reveals colour in its fullest expression.