This is a little rough shaped Watermelon Tourmaline. It started out as an alluvial pebble from Zambia. The stone is minimally faceted from the outside just to reveal the multicolours inside. If one looks closely one can see the outer greenish “rind” enclosing the reddish inside, hence the name watermelon.
I decided to use red gold claws on 18ct yellow gold and to make an irregular meandering shape ring shank, to set the little 1ct stone off. It has been on a longer journey on planet earth than any of us will ever take.
