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- [Steven] Hey, Kristin.
- Hi, how's it going?
- It's going well. - Oh my gosh, you're here.
- How are you doing?
- I'm doing great now.
- That's so nice of you.
(Kristin laughs)
We are gonna be doing the season finale
of Worth It: Lifestyle today,
and I thought you'd be the perfect cohost.
- Why is that?
- Well, we're doing engagement rings,
and obviously, you have a lot of experience
in the marriage world.
- I do.
I have been proposed to and I am married,
so I have one experience.
- And I have not much experience in that world.
- You seem very nervous.
- Which is why I'm gonna try to do this the right way.
Kristin Chirico, (Kristin laughs)
will you please come on this video with me?
- Oh my goodness,
I thought you'd never ask.
Yes! - Yay, woo!
(two talking over each other)
- What if I'd said no?
You'd have to reschedule a lot of stuff.
- Yeah.
- You ready to go, yeah?
- All right, here we go. - Let's go.
- Today on Worth It: Lifestyle,
we're gonna be checking out three different engagement rings
at three drastically different price points
to find out which one is the most worth it at its price.
- Woo.
It's, I don't, keep doing that.
I don't know what that means. - Worth it.
- Worth it!
- Worth it.
We're gonna learn about engagement rings today.
Neither of us are really shopping for this,
'cause you got one.
- I have one already.
- I don't got one, but I don't need one.
- I feel like you're gonna feel
a little bit more comfortable,
'cause right now,
you're kind of like (makes wordless sound),
and I want you to get down
to like a solid (makes wordless sound).
- I see, okay, okay, yeah.
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- My name's Cindy.
I'm the designer and owner of Ochre Objects,
and we're taking a look at my Diamond Ovate III ring.
The collection is based around this one shape
that I'm really interested in.
It's called ovate, which is a reference to like an egg
or a leaf shape,
and so I just play around with that shape
with different scales.
The materials that I source are gonna be different
from what you would find in a typical jewelry store
because all of my diamonds are reclaimed and recycled,
which means that they either come out of jewelry
that already exists,
or they're cut from the waste product of diamond minings.
I work with a casting shop that uses recycled metals,
so they get their gold from a refiner
that takes gold from the existing supply chain,
melts it down, alloys it.
There's no new mining of fresh gold in the process.
And then all of the colored stones that I use,
I try to work with suppliers
that use really short supply chains,
and that know exactly where the stones are coming from
just so that I can incorporate as much transparency
into my work as possible.
I think it's more about connecting with the person
who makes it, telling a story with it,
knowing its history,
and have it mean something rather than just a dollar amount.
- [Steven] How much does this Diamond Ovate III ring cost?
- [Cindy] The Diamond Ovate III ring costs 1,065.
- [Kristin] 1,065, like,
that's a really reasonable ring cost.
If it means something from that person
to another person.
- [Steven] Yes, it's like gift-giving.
- [Kristin] It literally is gift-giving.
- Oh. (laughs) (Kristin laughs)
- Are you ready to try on some rings?
- Oh, you're getting ready.
- The rings are coming off.
Oh, it's so pretty.
So, it has, like, this really interesting detail work
around the diamond.
Put it on. - So, if I put it on
my ring finger,
does that mean I'm engaged?
- Yes, to yourself.
- [Steven] Okay.
- [Kristin] Isn't it nice?
- [Steven] It is.
- It's subtle, but like, you an tell that
a lot of thought and work
and beauty and artistry went into it.
- There's like these very subtle engravings in the ring
that are pointing toward the diamond.
- They're pointing towards the diamond.
It's so you know which part of the ring is the shiny part.
- It's not what I expect to see on somebody
who is engaged or married,
but I like that.
- What's nice about this ring
is that it's not gonna get in your way.
It's gonna be beautiful,
it's gonna hang out,
it's gonna make your finger look sparkly,
but you're not gonna keep hitting it on the car door
every time you get out.
This is beautiful.
I'd like to see some of the other rings
to see what they look like stackable.
All right, so we have a bunch of colored stones here.
- Yes, so this is my birthstone for November.
- [Kristin] It's pretty.
- [Steven] Why don't you put these on?
- See, I mean, it just feels like fun dress-up to me,
so there's the diamond,
and then there's yours,
and then pearl's going there.
- Oh, that looks really nice.
- Yeah. (laughs)
My finger kinda turning purple,
and I was like maybe this is a bad idea.
- I have an idea.
- What's your idea?
- I wanna put all these birthstones in here,
shake it up, choose one,
and then that month will have to be the person
that I end up marrying.
- Oh God. (laughing)
- Ochre Objects.
- I think that Cindy really cares about the craftsmanship
and the materials and where her rings come from,
and honestly, where they're going,
and I think that like that is a gift in and of itself.
- And it's affordable.
- It is affordable.
- I really love that place.
I feel like it's gonna be really hard for somebody
to beat that for me.
- Really? - It's a good deal.
(Kristin laughs)
- Pro tip, do not tell someone when you're getting engaged
to them that you got a good deal.
Just leave that part out of it.
- Engagement fact.
- Wah!
- All right, don't cheat.
- I can, I'm not--
- The average American spends $6,324 on an engagement ring.
Which state spends the most of all the states?
- California.
Did I get it right? - Yeah!
Were you contributing to that price?
- Uh, honestly, my engagement ring cost less than that.
- Wow.
The average in California is $9,809.
- I brought the average down.
- All right, well, this location that we're headed to,
they are called Trumpet & Horn.
- What?
Trumpet & Horn is actually
where my engagement ring came from.
- What?
- (laughs) Yes.
- Okay, we did not plan this.
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- Hi, I'm Tommy Heidenreich.
- And I'm Jerry Heidenreich.
- And we are at Trumpet & Horn today,
and we are going to be showing you some fabulous
vintage engagement rings.
- So, I heard you use the word vintage.
I also heard the word antique be used.
- Antique is a product over 100 years old.
Vintage can literally be last Thursday.
We sell the things that are generally 50 to 150 years old,
but more than just vintage,
we like the eco-friendly vintage.
- If you buy something vintage or antique,
there's no new mining involved and new production involved,
so there's no new greenhouse gases going
into the atmosphere.
- Completely coincidentally,
this is actually the place where my now-husband
got my engagement ring.
One thing about the diamonds here
is that a lot of them, because they're older,
they're not necessarily cut to the way
that we think of diamonds today.
- Right.
Not that diamonds that are cut today
are better or worse,
they're just different.
The cutting or proportions are literally perfect.
Most of our diamonds were cut by hand
without electricity, without computers.
A lot of the facets, which are the cuts,
are not quite centered,
but they were cut bigger
because they were made to reflect candlelight.
Today, my wife Kim is gonna be helping you guys out
looking at some rings.
- This ring, it's called Edencliff.
- [Kristin] Ooh.
- So, it dates back to about 1890 or so.
It's 18-karat yellow gold,
which is very, very common at that time.
This has a quintessential split shank here
where it supports the head of the ring,
and then the top is a cluster kind of original halo look.
But this was likely an earring once upon a time.
It's very flat on the bottom.
There's no curvature for your finger,
but the entire head is all original,
old mine cuts,
It's a really special ring.
- Honestly, I wouldn't even be able to tell this ring
was 100 years old.
Like, I feel like this is a ring you could buy today.
- 129 years old.
- 129 years old. - I did the math.
- 129 years old.
- These are all diamonds outside, right?
- [Kristin] Yeah.
- [Steven] Okay, it's like one diamond with all her buddies.
- Try this on.
Ooh, wow, it's like the size of my knuckle.
I mean, it's very big.
It's like you can tell me, I'm engaged to the sea,
and I'd be like, yeah,
the ocean definitely bought you that ring.
- Yes, yes.
- [Kim] Just hold it there.
Now bring this to you.
- [Steven] Whoa.
There it is.
- I was gonna give you this in case you couldn't get it.
- Wait. - Yeah.
- I love that I was just like mine.
(all laugh)
- Oh.
- I have one more ring I want to show you.
This is also from the Victorian era,
but it has a saphire center stone.
Platinum top, and it's 18-karat rose gold.
- One advantage here is that
there are lots of different ways
to accommodate both your personal taste
as well as your budget.
It gives you, like, a really easy way to tell a story, too.
It's very light effort for the amount
of romantic punch you get.
- Wow.
Bang for your buck, okay.
Got it.
- I feel like we really got into it at Trumpet & Horn.
- Yeah, yeah, you know what?
I will say I was a little nervous when I was there.
- We all could tell.
- No, I mean, maybe it won't show through the video.
Probably will, yeah.
- You know what it is?
I think with engagement rings, it's just like,
an abundance of options.
Kind of like when you're at a restaurant
with too many options.
- And you can't, you can't go back to the restaurant again.
- Yes.
- There's only one chance.
- One shot.
- To do the restaurant correctly.
- And each item costs like $6,000.
- Engagement ring fact!
Octavio Guillan and Adriana Martínez
hold the record for the longest engagement in the world.
- Oh.
- They were waiting to be married for 67 years,
and they finally did it in 1969 in Mexico City.
They were 82 years old.
Wow, her parents must have been on her.
(laughs)
I would say by decade three,
you'd be like, mmm.
- All rightie, so our final destination.
- Our final destination.
- This is where the prices go up
and we find out what is luxury like.
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- Hi, I'm Sam Sarkisian.
- I'm Jennifer Sarkisian.
- [Sam] And today we're at Adiamor.
- [Kristin] So, y'all make custom rings
that you mostly sell on your website, correct?
- A majority of our business is online.
When a customer places an order,
we actually build a ring from scratch.
We put the ring in a computer-aided design model,
input the diamond's measurements,
the customer's finger size,
and what you get is basically
a wax model of the end product.
That model is then put into a flask.
Bake it overnight.
In the morning, we actually pour the gold into the flask.
The quenching process basically removes all the investment
and what you have left is the gold treat.
We do the pre-polish, the diamond setting,
final quality control,
then we ship it out to our customers,
and give them a 30-day money back guarantee.
All of our diamonds are GIA certified.
- GIA is the most reputable rating laboratory in the world.
A difference in color can be $2,000 or $25,000.
- It'll show you the certificate number.
That number is actually etched onto the diamond itself.
It's the diamond's fingerprint.
- [Steven] The ring that Will hinted at.
What ring is that?
- It is a rose gold three-carat DSI I diamond.
It's beautiful.
This one's between 55 and 60,000.
- Okay, so, here we are.
- It's time. - Adiamor.
A day in love.
- Here we have it.
- [Steven] Okay.
- Oh, honey, it's perfect. - Wow.
- I love it, thank you so much.
- That's not how this show works, by the way.
(Kristin laughs)
Oh, wow.
I just took a look at it from the side profile.
- She's a big, beautiful hunk of love.
It's also, what's nice about it,
is that it's not like too over-the-top.
But like, holy bananas.
- Wow.
Okay, the thing that was really,
I don't want to use this word lightly, but stunning?
When you pulled it out,
was the diamonds that go all around it.
- [Kristin] It's the backup dancers.
Like, the little diamonds, the backup dancers.
The big diamond is the Beyoncé.
- Got ya.
Okay, I wanted to examine the side diamonds first.
Yep, those are diamonds.
(Kristin laughs)
And oh.
- [Kristin] Yeah, that's the big diamond.
- And this is, wow.
So, this is, we've learned, is eye clean,
which means if I look at it here
and I'm just giving the eye test,
I don't see... - Yeah, there's nothing.
- I can't see anything wrong with it.
- It's spotless to the naked eye.
- Now, wait, let me check it with the magnification.
I can see some very subtle inclusions.
Here's the thing, though--
- No one's looking at your ring that close.
- If somebody is popping this out next to your hand,
you just whack 'em.
(all laugh)
Okay, so, I'm gonna ask you now, Kristin,
and you only have one choice.
Which engagement ring was the most worth it to you
at its given price?
- I think that both Ochre Objects
and Adiamor were awesome,
and I think that, like, all of them are worth it.
All of you ladies are beautiful.
But one of you is the most beautiful in my heart.
I said I wasn't gonna do this,
but I think Trumpet & Horn was the most worth it.
- [Steven] Wow.
- You know, I got my ring from there,
so it seems like the obvious choice for me,
but having a ring that doesn't have
a single sibling in the world is worth it to me.
What did you think was mots worth it?
- With Adiamor, it was a lot of money.
It was a lot of fun,
but my worth it winner goes to Ochre Objects.
- [Kristin] Oh.
- I really, really appreciated seeing that side
of an engagement ring.
I had always had this thought in my head.
- You gotta spend this much money.
It's gotta be this shiny.
That doesn't really matter as much as the love
that you share with the other person.
That has been it for a Worth It: Lifestyle Season Four.
Thank you to all the people involved in making the show.
In front of and behind the camera,
all the people who let us film there,
and we will see you next time on Worth It: Food!
Season Six, baby.
- Wow. - That's right.
- Oh my God, an announcement,
and I was here for it.
- You were here.
Exclusive!
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