Marta McCue

A Private Commission

Harbor began as a one-of-a-kind request from a client close to the house — a ring that revealed its secret only to those who looked twice. The radiant fan of tapered baguettes hidden beneath the center stone was designed and inspired by our local Hillsboro Lighthouse. A private detail, worn against the skin, seen by few. 

There's a moment at a harbor when the early light fans out across the water — long, low rays breaking from a single bright point. The Harbor ring holds that moment.

At its heart sits a 4-carat oval diamond, set to rest across the finger where it catches the most light (all other shapes available). But the quiet brilliance of Harbor is what lives beneath the stone: a full basket of tapered baguette diamonds, channeled in splaying outward like rays from the center — a hidden architecture most will only glimpse from the side, and never forget once they have. It turns the underside of the ring, so often an afterthought, into the design's secret signature.

The cathedral shoulders rise to meet the center on a band of micro-pavé, sixteen round diamonds tracing each side so the whole ring reads as light in motion. Together, twenty-nine stones — roughly 5.70 total carats — yet the effect is air and radiance rather than weight.

Hand-fabricated in 14K white gold, with lab-grown diamonds in F/VS+. A solitaire reimagined: serene from above, breathtaking in profile.

The piece — 4ct oval center diamond, twelve tapered baguettes forming the radiant basket, sixteen round pavé diamonds along the cathedral shoulders. Approximately 5.70 total carats.