The Hayden Planetarium Green Tsavorite Garnet & Diamond Ring - Cross Jewelers
FREE SHIPPING on everything we sell sent anywhere USA all orders Details 1-800-433-2988
Fast Free Delivery Learn More

Ring Details

Ring Style: Hayden Planetarium

Item#: G3256

Precious Metal: 14K White Gold w/ 14K Yellow Gold Bezel

Gem: Green Tsavorite Garnet: .75 carat (5.5mm round)
Gems: 18 Diamonds = .23 carat total

Price: $2,750

 

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.

 

The Hayden Planetarium Green Tsavorite Garnet & Diamond Ring

Style #: G3256

The Hayden Planetarium

The universe, the galaxies, the stars, our sun, helium and a few basic elements. Then the planets circling, earth – earth is the best. Earth is superlative. Earth is amazing. Oceans, land, mountains, sky, and deep within the earth are the most amazing mix of elements that at the right moment, under the right conditions, they come together to form crystals – gem crystals – from which we cut the gems of earth. Beautiful, brilliant gems.

The Hayden Planetarium is one of our favorite rings, set with a magnificent array of colors.

This ring is set with a rare green garnet – bright, brilliant, pure, true green. One of the rarest gems on earth, Tsavorite is found in only one tiny place in east Africa near the foot of Africa’s highest mountain – Mt. Kilimanjaro.

This ring is unusual. The only ring like it in our entire collection. Lacy, delicate, white gold glittering with diamonds surrounding the center. Then one of the things that makes this so unusual is the color. The gem in the center is surrounded in a rim of yellow gold. Unusual, yes, but it is our considered opinion this is part of what makes this ring pure magic. We’ve tried to imagine this ring with a white center bezel, it would be nice but the touch of yellow, again, is pure magic. It’s mystical.

We show this ring with classic top view, side view, three-quarter view, and we also show you the upside-down inside view where you can see the honeycomb lacework detail resting against the finger. Get the feeling we like this ring? When you choose, when it arrives, you’ll look once, twice, three times. You’ve got a lifetime ahead of you, you’ll never stop looking. Neil Degrassi Tyson would approve, we’re sure. It’s a really great ring.

READ MORE


Please Select

Finger Size

  Free Shipping  |    30-Day Returns/Exchanges

$2,750

In Stock, Ready to Ship

Ring Details

Ring Style: Hayden Planetarium

Item#: G3256

Precious Metal: 14K White Gold w/ 14K Yellow Gold Bezel

Gem: Green Tsavorite Garnet: .75 carat (5.5mm round)
Gems: 18 Diamonds = .23 carat total

Price: $2,750

 

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.

 

  1-800-433-2988  |  Monday - Friday 9:30 am to 5:00 pm, EST

The World’s Prettiest Green Gem

 

In East Africa following the Rift Valley to the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro is a rare type of rock not found anywhere else in the world. This native rock is yielding a new green gem never seen before anywhere on the planet. Jewelers are ecstatic. Tougher than emerald. Harder than emerald. Clearer than emerald. Brighter and more brilliant than emerald. It’s a dream come true gem, that we have been waiting for for thousands of years.

Surprisingly, it sells for a quarter of what a fine emerald would sell for. We have adopted this new gem and added it to the Cross family of favorites.

To move into the deeper gemology of this new gem, it is a member of the garnet family. Garnet is a gem that occurs in every color but blue (Russia was a source of a yellow-green garnet many years ago). Since then, this new green garnet is the only other green gem garnet to come along…and its true color is pure green.

Part of what makes this gem rare is the limited geographical area in which it is found.

The world’s prettiest green gem.
A rare member of the garnet family.
Its gemological name is Tsavorite. Found on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, Africa.

Most gems are found in numerous locations throughout the world. Tsavorite is found in just one location.

Most people who see this gem will think it’s an emerald. It’s clearer, more brilliant, and rarer than emerald.

This World’s Prettiest Green Gem is a rare garnet called Tsavorite and is shown on our website in a variety of our favorite designs.

Tsavorite from the Garden of Eden
The Green Garnet of East Africa

 

Garden of Eden Green Garnet is found in east Africa on the border between Tanzania and Kenya. Also called Tsavorite, it is a bright, lively green gem, a color so rich, emerald could only dream of being so good. There’s an intensity, a sharpness a truth of color that speaks to any lover of green.

My First Visit to
the Garden of Eden

 

I’ve been to the “Garden of Eden.” Never saw anything like it before or since: the sounds, sights, smells. It was rich. I slowed enough so that the memories are still vivid, years later.

I stayed in a cabin with a thatched roof 800 feet away from Eden. The cabin was on a hill, below a wire fence that separated the Garden of Eden and the rain forest from our village. In our village the food was good; the land was lush, and the company a delight.

It rained a lot, seemed like every 15 minutes to half hour torrential rains, buckets and fire hoses of rain came down. The walking paths had thatched roofs. We stayed dry and on the 4th day I accepted the invitation to go up to the Garden of Eden.

As I recall, there were six of us and our guide. The field, leading up to the wire fence was dry with long yellow grasses and gray boulders. As we got closer to Eden, the trees became taller and there was the scent, an earthy scent. The field ended and a two tier barbed wire fence ran along the edge of Eden. We waited as our guide untied the wires and a tic-tac-toe grid of gray weathered logs was hinged back. The fence section opened and we walked in.

Arrival

As we stepped in, the light changed. Long shafts of light filtered through 3, 4, 5 stories of tall trees. The air was dripping, water droplets fell from stories above. The air was moist, humid, warm. On the ground, wet from above, green plants grew at the base of trees, shiny green, wet shiny green everywhere.

We entered Eden and only went 100 – 200 feet in following a log path of thin cut circles. Our guide said, “Stay on the path and don’t touch anything as much as you might be tempted, as beautiful as the flower might be, as cute as the frog might look, color often speaks danger.” He lifted a fern and a construction-worker’s-vest-yellow frog sat on the flared tree root. Our guide said something about poison darts.

Our visit did not last long enough, an hour perhaps. I spent another three days at the edge of the Garden of Eden. I never went back. The sights and sounds of the village, the food, and torchlight suppers kept me down by the river where we gathered to write and talk. I’d never experienced anything like Eden, this welcome from the earth and trees and the love of the native people of this land call to me even now, twenty years later. Land deeply felt, touches us in ways for which words often can’t possibly begin to describe.

A Lasting Impression

I will admit that on my way home to America, once I was alone at the airport, I choked up, and for months afterward if anyone asked me about it or asked if I had been on any interesting trips, I couldn’t speak the country’s name. A Garden of Eden experience touches people that way.

The biblical Garden of Eden is somewhere around 35° east. My Eden was in the west. My people, your people, 100,000 years ago walked the paths of this eastern Eden as they departed Africa, saw things, knew things, felt things and I’m sure there were tears. Land deeply felt, touches us in ways for which words often can’t possibly begin to describe.

Tsavorite – Garden of Eden Green Garnet

From East Africa we have new gems and new discoveries: Tsavorite is a gem few have heard of, yet its beauty is something to behold. The green is crisp, bright, and lush. The green is the color of Eden.

 

 

Found in Only One Place on Earth – East Africa

We’ve gone to East Africa to the world’s greatest green garnet mines, a small geographic area just north of Mt Kilimanjaro, on the border between Tanzania and Kenya. Mt. Kilimanjaro is Africa’s tallest mountain at 19,000+ feet. Snow capped with glaciers, remarkably, just a few hundred miles from the equator.

Orders Over $1,000 require a signature on delivery. You may choose free FedEx Overnight or US Post Office Express Mail.

Orders Under $1,000 no signature is required. You may choose FedEx 2-Day Service or US Post Office Priority Mail.

Rings that need to be sized take extra time (See our current sizing time). If ordering a ring, you may select, “No Sizing Yet, Ship Right Away”.

Curbside Pickup is also Available – please give us a call to place your order.

Free Shipping Details

Shipping Details

Orders Over $1,000 – Ship Free by your choice of FedEx Overnight or US Post Office Express. A signature is required on delivery.

Orders Under $1,000– Ship Free by your choice of 2-Day FedEx or US Post Office Priority Mail. No signature required.

30-Day Returns/Exchanges

We design, craft, and create really nice jewelry with amazing gems. Our guarantee, she’ll love your gift. If for any reason she doesn’t… you know you’ve got 30-days for a refund or exchange.

READ MORE

Scroll To TopScroll To Top