Jeweler breaks record with 12,638 diamonds set in one ring

UPI ^ | Jan. 5, 2021 / 11:25 AM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

An Indian jeweler broke a Guinness World Record by setting 12,638 diamonds in a single ring. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records

Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A jeweler in India broke a Guinness World Records when he set 12,638 diamonds in a single ring.

Harshit Bansal, founder of Renani Jewels in Meerut, said he was studying jewelry design in Surat in 2018 when he started considering attempting the Guinness record for most diamonds set in one ring.

Bansal's company has now unveiled the Marigold, also known as the "Ring of Prosperity," which features thousands of 38.08-carat natural diamonds.

"My target was always more than 10,000 diamonds. I trashed many designs and concepts over the years to finally zero in on this," Bansal said.

Guinness certified the ring as a record-breaker when the diamonds were officially counted at 12,638. The previous record was a ring from India's Hallmark Jewellers with 7,801 diamonds.

[monkeybrau]

"thousands of 38.08-carat natural diamonds"

Something tells me it's worth slightly less than that.

[Leaning Right]

Aw, heck. I just finished working on a ring with 12,637 diamonds in it. Maybe I’ll just get some super glue, and glue two more diamonds on the top.

[DannyTN]

I think I might just get mine at Walmart's bicycle department.

[ClearCase_guy]

And is this new Death Star fully operational?

[A_perfect_lady]

“You’d have gone straight to the bottom!”

[Albion Wilde]

And it’s still ugly.

[MomwithHope]

BWAHAHAHAHA!

[DUMBGRUNT]

I think I might just get mine at Walmart's bicycle department. You may want to look beyond Walmart. The last time I looked 12 speeds (cogs) were widely available. Yours appears to be a 9 speed.

[tflabo]

Try wearing that ring in a DemoRat hellhole area and see diamonds en masse fly off the finger in record time.

[LibWhacker]

A jeweler who’s hoping to get a job at Black & Decker? Or one of those companies that makes demolition tools? Scaled up, his ring looks like it’d be good for chewing through something.

[Red Badger]

[moovova]

“Harshit Bansal, founder of Renani Jewels in Meerut...”

Probably a good thing Hairshit doesn’t live in America...

[LibWhacker]

Tunneling! There you go, he wants to dig tunnels!

[know.your.why]

Pretty cool looking disco ball...

[DannyTN]

Yours has a nice shine!

[Veto!]

You’re right. Seriously ugly. I wonder whether it was about winning some gem-setter contest, because I can’t imagine anyone wanting to wear it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

38.08 carat diamonds? Just how big is this ring? I don’t think you could fit 12,000 diamonds that size on a manhole cover.

[Swordmaker]

Don’t let my lady see that one... it eclipses the engagement ring I just got her!

I haven’t counted the diamonds in this one, but they are bigger than all those itty-bitty pavé rocks in that Indian ring. . . but I think this one isn’t the size of a saucer.

[Svartalfiar]

Bansal's company has now unveiled the Marigold, also known as the "Ring of Prosperity," which features thousands of 38.08-carat natural diamonds.

So, at firth I thought they had a typo, and meant .38 carat diamonds, not 38 carat. But, the fact that they go into decimals: 38.08 carat, tells me that probably wasn't a typo..?

But it's certainly impossible that it is 12M 38 carat diamonds. A round diamond of fingernail width is about 3-4 carats. So a 38 caret diamond is going to be just shy of an inch wide. Something isn't correct here.. maybe 38.08 carets is the total weight of all the diamonds added together? That'd make each of them ~.8mm big, which is probably about what those are if that picture is a ring-sized object.