Without giving it much thought, we tend to offer a firm, quick answer: yes. Except that, if we pause for a moment and look more closely, the answer is not quite so simple.
After a few dozen clicks through more or less friendly corners of the web (read: rather dubious websites), we landed on diamante.ro. And we stayed there not only because it has a friendlier look and feel, in terms of design, but because we were about to discover a Romanian success story behind it. Diamond jewellery handcrafted in Romania. The cleverly conceived collections and the inspired designs made us genuinely curious to hear the views of people who have been making jewellery for over 23 years. Lucian Constantinescu (Diamante.ro/FIRESQ): "We are proud of what we have created. Every day, fresh design ideas and the quality we offer are confirmed by the delight of our customers. From the very first day we chose to offer premium quality, from the precious metal to the internationally certified diamonds we work with." But the subject of this article has more to do with the idea of "fashion" in jewellery, and we wanted an informed opinion on it. We asked Constantinescu how things look through the eyes of a Romanian jewellery maker. "We are not really keen on this idea of fashion. It might apply to the jewellery you pay 10-15 lei for, those bracelets or pendants you pick up from the mall and take to the beach. Diamante.ro is something else entirely. We create engagement rings and wedding rings and some of the designs can end up costing as much as a city car. We make both series pieces and bespoke designs but, I repeat, we do not sell jewellery because it happens to be fashionable. We have a collection of wedding rings, for instance, inspired by the decorative friezes of the Holy Three Hierarchs Monastery in Iași. It looks absolutely magnificent. These are expensive pieces made only to order. How could such a piece of jewellery ever go out of fashion? It cannot." It sounds rather convincing, especially since we saw on diamante.ro the very jewellery Lucian Constantinescu refers to. In the end, it is a mindset we choose for ourselves. If we get it into our heads that a piece of jewellery has to be fashionable, then so it is. But if we have in mind the idea of investing money and feelings into a work of art made of gold and diamonds, we should make the purchase knowing that a grandchild or great-grandchild will one day look at that ring and fondly remember their great-grandfather or great-grandmother. In the end, a gold and diamond piece of jewellery is forever. Source:https://www.gasestebijuterii.ro/inele-de-logodna-2024/
