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A total of 98 metalwork-related pieces are included here, offering inspiration for bespoke design through colour, proportion and craftsmanship.

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If I Could Keep Only One Ring, I Would Choose Tricolour Gold
Ring · Metalwork

If I Could Keep Only One Ring, I Would Choose Tricolour Gold

This time, two clients chose to make tricolour gold rings almost at the same moment. Another client said that when she gets married, she absolutely wants a tricolour gold wedding ring. It is also the ring I wear most often in daily life. For jewellery, no matter how dazzling the array, nothing surpasses one ring that feels just right. If I could keep only one ring, I would definitely choose tricolour gold. Yellow gold carries weight, white gold...

Ruby Ring
Ring · Ruby

Ruby Ring

It is the cinnabar mole in one’s heart. The red of the centre stone is intense and unabashedly vivid. The princess-cut diamonds on either side are set seamlessly, leaving the face of the ring smooth and level. Clear and restrained, they make the centre stone seem even more composed. The 18K gold ring shank sits on the hand with comfortable softness, yet carries an undeniable nobility. It is not the kind of jewellery that dazzles at first sight, but rather like a cloth-bound volume...

The Perfect Fusion of Natural Pearls and Carved Gold Ring
Ring · Pearl

The Perfect Fusion of Natural Pearls and Carved Gold Ring

Seeing this ring, I imagined a young woman walking barefoot along a golden sacred path strewn with petals. The pearl’s smooth surface shimmers with a soft iridescence, while chased gold motifs wind like classical colonnades, carrying the whispers of mythology. In the client’s photographs, the halo of light at four o’clock makes the ring feel like a token left on earth by a muse. As dusk descends over the Acropolis and the setting sun...

A Biscuit-Gold Australian South Sea Pearl Ring: Balancing Retro and Elegance
Ring · Pearl

A Biscuit-Gold Australian South Sea Pearl Ring: Balancing Retro and Elegance

When the cool Australian South Sea pearl meets a warm biscuit-gold mount, it carries a softer, misted warmth than the natural tone of 18K gold, and more of a vintage afterglow than white gold. The dignity of the Australian South Sea pearl, the retro character of biscuit gold and the brilliance of diamonds are woven together into a jewellery aesthetic that can be passed down, and into elegance one can touch at one’s fingertips.

One piece, two uses - a different kind of ease necklace
Necklaces · Jadeite and hardstone

One piece, two uses - a different kind of ease necklace

Natural textures with a milky white base and a hint of sugar tone are framed in 18K gold, which not only supports the organic curves of the rough stone, but also conceals an ingenious detachable mechanism. It can be worn as a warm wrist ornament beside the ear, and when removed it becomes a unique pendant at the neck. No need to choose between occasions, and no need to struggle over style - much like the ancient Chinese devotion to jade, 'if there is no good reason, never leave it from the body'. One object, two...

The Deep-Sea Song of Paraíba Ring
Ring · Paraíba Tourmaline

The Deep-Sea Song of Paraíba Ring

The electric blue-green of Paraíba tourmaline is the phosphorescent shimmer moving through the deep sea. The classic outward-sweeping form of the ring shank is like the curve of a hull cutting through waves. Step-cut and round diamonds in full pavé are the silver spray thrown up by the wave tops. The cool tone of 18k gold supports this vivid blue, as though one can hear a low hum from the depths. It is not a static ring, but more like a vessel carrying...

Gentle yet steadfast, you Hetian jade pendant necklace
Necklaces · Jadeite and hardstone

Gentle yet steadfast, you Hetian jade pendant necklace

Wading the river to pick hibiscus, the orchid marsh thick with fragrant grasses. The pinkish-white jade texture is like lotus root soup just beginning to melt in a pond - softly luminous, restrained, yet quietly full of tender strength. The 18K gold rim lends elegance through simplicity, while the coloured cotton cord holds together a softness from Jiangnan, giving Wu dialect’s gentle cadence a touch more freedom. This clear Eastern romance is the tenderness preserved by time, and also the poetry hidden in a small space.

A Soft-Glow Akoya Pearl Ring
Ring · Pearl

A Soft-Glow Akoya Pearl Ring

This Akoya pearl’s gentle warmth is not a deliberate embellishment. It is the quiet gathered over years in the deep sea, and the almost-imperceptible rainbow sheen within its iridescence. Like the morning light in a snowy country, it is clean and tender. The 18K gold ring shank is densely pavé-set with tiny diamonds, as though scattered stars have been worked into the curve, holding this pearl of sea-coloured light with steady grace. It need not shout, nor compete...

Celeste Jewellery collectibles Share your favourites with fellow enthusiasts bracelet
Bracelet · Jadeite and hardstone

Celeste Jewellery collectibles Share your favourites with fellow enthusiasts bracelet

Collecting and appreciating traditional objects has always been my own hobby. Gradually, old clients and friends began asking me to help them with bead strings too, so I decided to organise a batch of ready stock at year-end and share it with fellow enthusiasts as a little benefit~ Every strand is assembled according to the standards I use for my own pieces: I would not claim the quality is absolutely top-tier, but I can guarantee there is no synthetic trickery. The mellow richness of agarwood, the honeyed warmth of amber,...

Jadeite Lucky Bean Ring
Ring · Jadeite & Jade

Jadeite Lucky Bean Ring

The subtle life of plants and trees each carries its own essence. An ice-type vivid green lucky bean is set among clusters of diamonds, like spring still unfallen in the garden. The curve of the 18k gold ring shank resembles flowing water around branches, while the light of the diamonds is like morning mist drifting over leaf tips. The warmth of jadeite is the restrained elegance of Eastern aesthetics, blending with the crispness of diamond light; it is not deliberate ornament, but the wish for smoothness and ease, hidden in a small space of green.

Carved Gold and Cut Flame: Texture at Your Fingertips Ring
Ring · Ruby

Carved Gold and Cut Flame: Texture at Your Fingertips Ring

Mu Xin said, “Craft is the trace of beauty.” This ring uses carved-gold craftsmanship to shape the metal’s texture, allowing the gold surface to bloom into natural folds, with a ruby set among them like a flame lifted from Yeats’s lines. There is no deliberate polishing; the carving lines are allowed to grow along the bones of the metal. The roughness of cool gold and the brilliance of ruby collide, turning handcraft into...

Adults Do Not Make Choices: Yin-Yang Hotpot Ruby Ring
Ring · Ruby

Adults Do Not Make Choices: Yin-Yang Hotpot Ruby Ring

Craving something is a taste with a threshold. This Pigeon Blood ring puts that taste into practice. The richness of the Pigeon Blood ruby collides with the clarity of diamonds, much like the red and white broths of a yin-yang hotpot: one half blazing, one half clear. The supporting 18k gold is like the texture of the steam and heat around a hotpot. With no elaborate embellishment, it uses the clever contrast of red and white to capture the everyday warmth of the four seasons...

Stanley, Under the Dome of Fiery Radiance
Other Creations · Emerald

Stanley, Under the Dome of Fiery Radiance

Maupassant described the Grand Palais in Paris as “the glass dome lifting up the whole sweep of daylight, steel bones threaded with an artistic galaxy”. The 18k gold structure echoes the Grand Palais’ steel framework, while step-cut diamonds are arranged in classical columns, recreating the power of order and authority in architecture, like the pillars of ancient Rome bearing the justice of the city-state, shaping the authoritative outline of the ring shank; the centre emerald...

A Perfect Match for Layering Ring
Ring · Diamond

A Perfect Match for Layering Ring

Though the facets of old-cut diamonds do not follow modern regularity, they unfold into broad, gentle fire with depth. The three-stone structure leaves nothing to fault: the centre and accents support one another. It is also an excellent choice for layering with gold; paired with a plain band it looks elegant, and with coloured gemstones it remains entirely harmonious. Its sparkle is not flashy; when the hand lifts, it leaks a sense of time, holding the romance of another era.

The Beauty of Ruby Is Visible to the Naked Eye Ring
Ring · Ruby

The Beauty of Ruby Is Visible to the Naked Eye Ring

The 18K gold supports the Pigeon Blood ruby, and the warm golden light spills over the setting, like afternoon sun slipping through an old wooden window frame, gently wrapping the flame-red stone. The facets of the old-cut diamonds have been polished by time; light falls into the texture of the 18K gold, then turns back towards the ruby’s heart. It is not a harsh brilliance, but a softened warmth. The softness of gold, the coolness of diamonds, the richness of red, all entwined around the finger, like an enduring...

Everything Can Be Three-Stone, Jadeite Too Ring
Ring · Jadeite & Jade

Everything Can Be Three-Stone, Jadeite Too Ring

The supple curved surface of a marquise full-green jadeite contrasts sharply with the cold, straight lines of the elongated step-cut side stones. 18K gold cleverly tempers this tension with a warm texture, preserving the edge of opposing forms while giving the whole piece a harmonious sense of luxury. This distinctive combination is precisely a gentle rebellion, a lonely kind of freedom - beyond the classic template, it hides a unique refusal to cater...

Classic by Nature, A Ring of Legacy and Versatility
Ring · Metalwork

Classic by Nature, A Ring of Legacy and Versatility

Beginning with Cartier’s first platinum ring in 1895, the design of a four-claw centre setting with diamond-set tiger-claw ring shank turned platinum craftsmanship into the mainstream of wedding rings for the next century. 130 years later, the neat symmetrical claws and the equally sized U-shaped settings remain our commitment to craftsmanship. Just like this client, who finds it comfortable to wear, easy to stack and endlessly versatile...

A South Sea old dream Australian South Sea pearl carved gold pendant necklace
Necklaces · Pearl

A South Sea old dream Australian South Sea pearl carved gold pendant necklace

18K gold casts a vintage dome, while layered gold rings stand like carved corridor columns in a Republican-era mansion, holding the Australian South Sea pearl’s mellow whiteness securely. The carved-gold back resembles the muted gold patterns on the opening pages of an old book; every trace of texture is infused with vintage Nanyang charm. When it hangs at the neck, it is the weight of gold shattering passing years, the vintage form awakening old dreams, and in the light and shadow, what flows is nothing but time...

A similar tennis bracelet - where should the money be spent?
Jewellery knowledge · Diamond

A similar tennis bracelet - where should the money be spent?

For us, the tennis bracelet has always been a signature bestseller. While enquiry rates remain high, the price often stops some clients in their tracks: 'All diamond bracelets are more or less the same, so why are yours so much more expensive?' Are they really that similar - and where does the extra cost come from? The arrangement, cut and size of the diamonds, and whether they are consistent, all directly affect the final result. This bracelet...

An Avant-Garde Balance of Angles and Softness Ring
Ring · Pearl

An Avant-Garde Balance of Angles and Softness Ring

18K gold takes structuralism as its core, chiselling out a geometric skeleton with crisp edges and corners, while the matte texture gives the metal an artistic warmth by hand. The Tahitian black pearl is a soft gift from the deep sea, its rounded surface spreading a green-toned rainbow sheen that creates a charged visual dialogue with the metal’s angularity. The tsavorite beside it flashes with a vivid green edge, like a break in the order of structure...

Wear This Pearl Ring and Let Your Fingertips Smell of Freedom
Ring · Pearl

Wear This Pearl Ring and Let Your Fingertips Smell of Freedom

As early as the 19th century, with the rise of the Art Nouveau movement, people began to pursue forms that replicated nature. Strictly speaking, this feather ring leans more towards deconstructing nature. Diamonds are interwoven through the middle of the feather lines to create a dense reflection of fire; along the main vein, we use diamond sandblasting to mimic the feather’s downy texture; at the tips, pneumatic gold carving outlines the feather...

A Rococo-Style Pearl Ring
Ring · Pearl

A Rococo-Style Pearl Ring

An 18K gold mount uses hand-beaded edging to recreate the folds of Rococo style. Hand-carved scrollwork dances like ribbons, forming a fine chain of tiny gold beads along the edge, much like lace covered in morning dew; diamonds tremble among the openwork leaf veins, lifting the soft rainbow sheen of a wild pearl. Every carved line traces the winding curves of maximalism, and when your fingertips touch it, the coldness of metal and the beauty of pearls...

Salute: A Tribute to the Golden Age Ring
Ring · Pearl

Salute: A Tribute to the Golden Age Ring

Celeste Jewellery original design, please do not criticise if you do not like it. The design inspiration comes from a 1960s Van Cleef & Arpels ring, with 18K yellow gold condensed into a “rope”. Golden cords thread through large diamonds, paired with a golden South Sea pearl. The client specially found a golden pearl and sent it to us so we could complete the design. This ring has also undergone ongoing craft improvements and upgrades...

South Sea Gold Pearl and Diamond Ring
Ring · Pearl

South Sea Gold Pearl and Diamond Ring

The 18K gold mount uses a symmetrical floral-leaf motif around the centre stone, with lines that combine geometric crispness and natural rhythm, echoing the design logic of vintage jewellery with its emphasis on proportion and symmetry. In material terms, the pearl’s organic warmth, the diamond’s mineral hardness and gold’s malleability create a textural contrast. In craftsmanship terms, the centre-stone "focal" layout and the accent-stone "framing"...

A platinum jadeite necklace hiding the secret of a hexagram
Necklaces · Jadeite and hardstone

A platinum jadeite necklace hiding the secret of a hexagram

The pure texture of platinum wraps around the mellow softness of glass-type jadeite. The stars-all-over design glitters across the chest like a sky full of stars. On the back, the engraved hexagram symbolises protection and luck. Jadeite already carries auspicious meaning; the three elements woven together condense one’s hopes for life into a piece of jewellery. It is not only visual brilliance, but also a tender wish to be guarded and accompanied.

What happens when Greek style meets Chinese-style bi jade earrings
Earrings · Jadeite and hardstone

What happens when Greek style meets Chinese-style bi jade earrings

When it comes to Greek-style jewellery, its glorious peak must be found in the history of Ancient Greece. During the Minoan civilisation, filigree and granulation techniques emerged. In the Mycenaean period, engraving also appeared. The use of semi-precious stones and abundant metal gave jewellery even more splendour. This pair of distinctive bi jade and gold earrings is a tribute to the art of the Ancient Greeks, and also a...

Beautiful Rings Are Truly Impossible to Put Down
Ring · Jadeite & Jade

Beautiful Rings Are Truly Impossible to Put Down

I think this jadeite twin-stone ring has brought together Eastern poetry and painting with Italian romance. The ice-type jadeite looks like a scoop of Jiangnan morning dew, so clear it seems to seep with poetry. The vivid green cabochon is like fresh spring shoots on a branch, alive enough to burst forth with green leaves 🍃 The Italian carved-gold craftsmanship on the side hides countless details. The beaded edge around the diamonds seems like vines gently winding around the two pieces of jadeite...

Old-Money Style Plain Gold Tiger’s Eye Ring
Ring · Jadeite & Jade

Old-Money Style Plain Gold Tiger’s Eye Ring

In the heat of summer, the best thing is to strip away heavy layers. Tiger’s eye with full old-money allure, paired with a textured plain-gold setting, suits every style. A simple ootd carries an effortless ease. Relaxed and comfortable dressing helps you focus on yourself. Paired with jadeite or jade bead strands, it becomes a new Chinese-style trend; layered with gold and diamond rings, it is unmistakably old-money style. It can even be paired with some...

Jade, A Summer Favourite
Other Creations · Jadeite & Jade

Jade, A Summer Favourite

In days when gold prices are soaring, we chose the ancient gold-and-silver layering technique. Its earliest origins can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. More than 2,000 years later, silver and 18K gold are combined today. Breaking through material boundaries, it is as though moonlight and sunlight have been fused into one. Italian woven engraving brings texture to the silver body, and the chased patterns are etched by time. There is...

Five-stone ring, timeless classic
Ring · Diamond

Five-stone ring, timeless classic

My first attempt at recreating the classic five-stone ring. In the Victorian era, five-stone rings were undeniably the darling of the age. They are also the antique jewellery design with the largest surviving number in circulation. This time we used lab-grown diamonds cut in old mine and old European styles for the setting. Different cuts help make up for the regrettable over-regularity of modern craftsmen copying antiques. The platinum setting is more...

Should you buy a ring in gold or K gold?
Jewellery knowledge · Metalwork

Should you buy a ring in gold or K gold?

A richly textured tri-colour gold ring. We respected the original by making it in separate parts, ensuring the effect while also avoiding any risk of wear. The clearly defined interior and exterior tri-colour metals perfectly express the designer’s original intention. The designer wanted to use the three colours to express family affection, friendship and love, and also to interpret the past, present and future. When it comes to 18K gold, people always say...

ct Royal Blue ring
Ring · Sapphire

ct Royal Blue ring

The centre stone is a 4 carat Royal Blue sapphire. Not content with a standard halo, we instead chose a design in which the accent diamonds gather around the centre stone. Twelve 25-point large pear-shaped diamonds were selected and arranged in an offset pattern that nonetheless all points towards the centre stone, cleverly forming a long oval silhouette. 'Love is countless tears, gathered into a deep blue eternity, and in the end remains true and complete.' Materials...