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Name: Sea Sense

Style#: CMT2399

Precious Metal: 14K White Gold

Gem: Blue Sapphire = .88 carat (7x5mm oval)

Gems: 8 Diamonds = .20 carat total weight

Price: $2,058

AU 24

Ring Sizing & Delivery Time – The majority of our rings are size 6.5 to start. Remarkably, this size fits 30% of all women. If you would like this ring made to a specific size, we generally ship within one week of your order. Click here to see how long we are currently taking to size a ring.

When you checkout online, we provide a real-time expected delivery date. Because of the value, and that you must sign for the package, we will call or email you when we are ready to ship to ensure a smooth delivery.

If You Need the Ring Faster – simply select in the finger size selection box “No Sizing Yet,  Ship Right Away”. We will ship the ring in its present size. You will have your new ring in a few days, boxed, bowed and ready for presentation.

After receiving your ring, if you find it needs additional adjustment, give us a call and we will mail you a special free set of ring sizers and a prepaid return label to send the ring back to us for final sizing. Read more about ring sizing.


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Sea Sense Blue Sapphire & Diamond Ring

Style #: CMT2399

 

With a fresh breeze still holding and the hum of the wind through the rigging, the land left far behind and the open ocean before you. You have the Maine coast charts, compass, and sea sense to guide you.

Sea Sense

Sea Sense has a subtle twist to it…much like the waves on the sea. In the center is a 7x5mm oval blue sapphire. On the east and west wings, we have 8 graduated natural earth-mined diamonds. In big cities they often make rings tall. We’ve theorized it comes from tall buildings creating tall rings. Here in Maine, we make rings lower and finger-hugging comfortable, which allows you to wear snug fitting Isotoner gloves without your ring catching or snagging.

Why We Love This Ring

I came to understand the idea of “sea sense” by watching my dad and how he handled himself around boats and on the sea. I watched my dad’s neighbors who took marine courses on boating, and they did just fine. I watched my dad on the sea, he aced it. He knew things that they don’t teach with notebooks and classes. “Sea sense” wins every time.

The Gems

Blue sapphire – Blue sapphire usually comes from Southeast Asia. It’s a color nature feels generous with in this part of the world. We love blue, particularly blue that shows well after the sun goes down. We tend toward a lighter brighter true blue color in all of our sapphire pieces.

Diamonds – world sourced, cut in Belgium. Well-cut with a full complement of 58 facets, rating a 3 on our quality cut scale. Nice white color, beautifully matched. Hardness 10.

 

About the Trade Wind Collection

Where does inspiration come from? Where do the creative sparks for design begin? For Cross’ new Trade Wind Jewelry Collection, we find ourselves drawn into the story of Captain John Henry Drew, from Gardiner, Maine. Born in 1834, he grew up the son of a Ship’s Carver, and went to sea at the age of 15, eventually becoming Captain of a series of clipper ships, and traveling from New York to China and back home, when that voyage took more than seventeen months.

Instead of carving or knotting or other hobbies that were characteristic of sailors, this mostly self-educated man read books, memorized details from newspapers, and wrote about his journey—his literal and his inner journey. His hand-written and personally illustrated journals tell us of his longing for Maine, for his family, and for “making something of himself”. He is very much like you and me, and it makes his story that much more compelling. He savors apples from home, as tasting better than apples from anywhere else. He imagines the scene he might see looking in the window at home, where his family sits, and he chastises himself for not getting more done at home when he was there.

The jewelry in our Trade Wind Collection is made by his great-great-great grandson, Keith. This young man went to sea as well, at age 18. As part of his service to the US Navy, his travels took him to many of the same places his great-great-great grandfather’s clipper ships visited. Keith also had a hobby unconventional for sailors— he had a fascination for gems and he studied gemology. He studied so that when his service was completed, he could become a jeweler. As Keith traveled the world, he collected exquisite gems, and after leaving the service and returning home, he mastered the art of fine jewelry making.

It is now decades later. We met Keith for the first time in March, 2014. We were impressed with his jewelry, and as we talked further, discovered he had a clipper ship sea captain ancestor and became intrigued with the parallels of his journey in life with that of his sea captain forebear.

The parallels in the two stories are expressed in the jewelry itself—the exotic colors, the flow of the designs, the attention to detail which is something passed down in this family—whether it is to protect the ship, its cargo and its crew, or to create a design that will last and protect its valuable gems, giving the wearer the same pleasure we experience when a ship at full sail goes by. You can’t help but stop and exclaim, “Isn’t that beautiful?”

We were hooked by this story, and by the jewelry. We think you will be too. In fact, we’re posting pages from Captain Drew’s journals from the Voyage of the Franklin in 1868. Take a few minutes to join in the journey, and think of those you love most, and rejoice if they are right there with you.

 

Read the Captain’s
Clipper Ship Journal Entries

Read Keith’s Gem Expedition Dispatches

Ring Details

Name: Sea Sense

Style#: CMT2399

Precious Metal: 14K White Gold

Gem: Blue Sapphire = .88 carat (7x5mm oval)

Gems: 8 Diamonds = .20 carat total weight

Price: $2,058

AU 24

Ring Sizing & Delivery Time – The majority of our rings are size 6.5 to start. Remarkably, this size fits 30% of all women. If you would like this ring made to a specific size, we generally ship within one week of your order. Click here to see how long we are currently taking to size a ring.

When you checkout online, we provide a real-time expected delivery date. Because of the value, and that you must sign for the package, we will call or email you when we are ready to ship to ensure a smooth delivery.

If You Need the Ring Faster – simply select in the finger size selection box “No Sizing Yet,  Ship Right Away”. We will ship the ring in its present size. You will have your new ring in a few days, boxed, bowed and ready for presentation.

After receiving your ring, if you find it needs additional adjustment, give us a call and we will mail you a special free set of ring sizers and a prepaid return label to send the ring back to us for final sizing. Read more about ring sizing.

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Cross’s 2025 Valentine’s Extension

You have a full 30 days after Valentine’s Day for returns and exchanges

Anything you purchase Jan 1 – Feb 14 2025 comes with full return/exchange privileges through March 15, 2025.

Our goal is to make gift giving easy with a full 30 days for exchanges or returns following Valentine’s Day.

Your gift comes beautifully gift-wrapped Absolute satisfaction guaranteed on all your Cross purchases.

Jewelry must be returned to us in original condition, unused and unworn. Special orders made to a customer’s specifications are not returnable.

Returns are credited in the form of the original payment– credit card to credit card, check to check. You may also choose to have the refund put on a Cross gift card for future jewelry shopping.

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