Lot 154
David Yurman: An 18ct gold diamond dress ring
Auction: Jewellery Day Two | Wed 3rd December 2025 | Lots 91 - 516
Description
Of coiled design with ribbed detail, each terminal pavé-set with round brilliant-cut diamonds, stamped DY 750, UK hallmark
Dimensions
Ring size: P/Q
Footnote
David Yurman (born in 1942) and his wife Sybil (born in 1942) grew up a few miles apart, but it was not until the late 1960s that they met. Both self-taught, David a sculptor and Sybil an artist, they worked in California and as David described it “I’m welding. She’s painting. Life is art”. They combined their artistic forces when it became clear customers wanted wearable sculpture and so they created the David Yurman company in 1979. David describes his form of direct welding as “drawing with molten metal”. In the early 1980s they created their Silver Ice Collection which set diamonds in silver and was seen as ground-breaking, not done before for fear diamonds would fall out of the settings. David Yurman liked the white metal background, as he felt it made diamonds “jump”. It was economically a good decision and played into his wish to make good quality, well made pieces at a reasonable price – the democratisation of luxury.
The now iconic Cable Collection, combining the natural world with fibres bound together, the industrial world of the strength of twisted metal and the modern world of technology and communication in this design ensures the Cable Collection's continued appeal thirty years after it was first launched.