Apple’s Jony Ive designs gaudy diamond ring

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• Apple chief design officer
  Jony Ive has designed a
  diamond ring that’s made entirely out of diamond.
• It’s expected to sell for $150,000 to $250,000 with the
  proceeds going to charity. 

If you like the way that Apple products look and feel, you’re
admiring Jony Ive’s work.

As Apple’s chief design officer, he’s responsible for the
materials and form enclosing your iPhone, MacBook, and
iPad. 

Increasingly, he’s also designing things that
aren’t computers. For his latest creation, he teamed up with
his buddy, the famous designer Marc Newson, and designed a
diamond ring — made entirely out of diamond.

Yes, there are ton of chamfered edges. 

It’s expected to raise between $150,000 and $250,000 for charity
at an
auction at Sotheby’s.

Behold:

Sotheby’s

Here’s how Sotheby’s describes the ring:

Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s Chief Design Officer, and renowned
industrial designer Marc Newson – having curated the (RED)
auction five years ago – have, this year, designed a unique ring,
made exclusively for (RED) by Diamond Foundry®. Consistent with
their mutual obsession with transforming raw material into
objects of value, Ive & Newson’s design is singular, clear
and un-compromised by the traditional metal settings and bands
that have previously been required to create ‘diamond rings’.
Theirs will be created by removing material rather than adding –
an ambition made possible by the extraordinary scale of the stone
which will enable the ring to be completely made of this
material.

Creating a ring-shaped diamond is no small feat; the diamond
block will be faceted with several thousand facets, some of which
are as small as several hundred micrometers. The interior ring
will be cylindrically cut out for the desired smoothness using a
micrometer thick water jet inside which a laser beam is cast. The
finished ring will have between 2000-3000 facets which has never
been seen before on a single piece.

The gemstone will be created by Diamond Foundry®, the certified
carbon neutral diamond producer who has pioneered and developed
the proprietary technology to form diamonds safely and
sustainably.

If you must have a diamond ring made out of diamond, the
auction begins on December 5, 2018 in Miami. Note that it’s
going to be made to fit the buyer — up to a size 5, which is
pretty small, so make sure it will fit the hand you have in mind
for it before spending hundreds of thousands on a diamond
ring.