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I found an Irish goldsmith who has a small workshop and an even smaller showroom. He does custom Celtic designs and gets the diamonds set for you. I saved about $300 over what the ring is valued at and I imagine it would have cost buckets more if I bought something similar at a corporate chain store--not to mention the fact that I wouldn't have found this ring there anyway. Oh, the ring was made in about a week, too.
If you want both value and worth, I suggest going the custom tradesman route as I did. Then you can ask for what you want, rather than ask for what they have.
Just be sure to do the usual checking out and shopping around, of course.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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