18K Yellow Gold Ring, Turquoise and Diamond €2,935 excl tax

Delivery outside France

Being the patrickvoillot.com network partners located worldwide, deliveries are carried out by specialized international carriers. The package, confidential and secured, is assured throughout the whole journey until its delivery to the customer.

1 - Delivery to a country in the European Union outside France.

• When your purchase is made with a partner * located in the EU, a delivery within 7 working days is offered to the address you provided. (For orders less than 150 € a 10 € fee is requested). An "express" delivery can be offered, please contact us: contact@patrickvoillot.com
• When your purchase is made with a partner outside EU *: sending in your destination country is offered to you within 10 days.

Your order may be subject to fees consisting of customs duties, import taxes or local taxes that are applied to the package at its arrival in your country. These fees are under your responsibility as much as all the local formalities and any statement in your country. We advise you to check with your country customs and tax authorities, about the local regulations taking place at the time of delivery.

2 - Delivery to a country outside the EU:

• Sending in your country of destination is offered to you within 10 days. Orders from a EU member partner imply an export tariff amount of 110€.

Your order may be subject to fees consisting of customs duties, import taxes or local taxes that are applied to the package at its arrival in your country. These fees are under your responsibility as much as all the local formalities and any statement in your country. We advise you to check with your country customs and tax authorities, about the local regulations taking place at the time of delivery.

* See "Our partners" in "About us" on the homepage of the site that indicates in which countries the partners of patrickvoillot.com are located.

The prices indicated on the website are in Euro (€) and do not include VAT or other local taxes. (Price without VAT or Price excl tax).

Some partners of the network patrickvoillot.com located in France are not subjected to VAT: their billing is always without VAT (Le Récif de Corail, l'île au trésor, Gemmes passion and Brasil Joyo).

1 - Price and VAT for delivery in European Union (excluding France)

For private individuals:

• The Order with a partner from France will be charged: Price + French VAT (20%). (For orders below € 150 a contribution to the costs of shipping of 10 € is requested)
• The Order with a partner from European Union outside France will be charged: Price + VAT of the country where the partner is located. (For orders below € 150 a contribution to the costs of shipping of 10 € is requested)
• The Order of a private individual with a partner outside the European Union will be charged: Price without VAT

It may be subject to fees consisting of customs duties, import taxes or local taxes that are applied to the package at its arrival in the customer's country. These costs are borne by the customer as much as the local formalities and any statement due in the customer's country.

For companies with a intra- community VAT number:

• The Order with a partner from France will be charged: net Price (intra-community VAT exempt delivery)
• The Order with a partner from European Union outside France will be charged: net Price (intra-community VAT exempt delivery). Except the cases where the client and the partner are located in the same country of the European Union: in this case the invoice will be : Price + VAT of the country.
• The Order completed with a partner outside the European Union are charged with the net Price.
  It may be subject to fees consisting of customs duties, import taxes or local taxes that are applied to the package at its arrival in the customer's country. These costs are borne by the customer as much as the local formalities and any statement due in the customer's country.

2 - Prices for delivery outside the European Union

For individuals and businesses the price will be charged net without VAT. Orders from a EU member partner imply an export tariff amount of 110€.

It may be subject to fees consisting of customs duties, import taxes or local taxes that are applied to the package at its arrival in the customer's country. These costs are borne by the customer as much as the local formalities and any statement due in the customer's country.

patrickvoillot.com offers secure payment methods:

• By credit card: Visa - MasterCard - American Express - Blue Credit card with 3D-Secure paybox system, certified to PCI / DSS standards by Visa and Mastercard and ensures compliance with the most stringent safety rules in order to protect the credit card data transmitted during payment transactions.
• By Paypal which has the advantage of paying purchases online without disclosing your bank account details, only using your email address and PayPal password.
• By bank transfer: this method of payment is possible for all orders and is imperative for all orders exceeding € 3,000 excluding VAT.

Our bank details are given to you when finalizing your order.

Whatever the mode of payment chosen, for security reasons, your billing address must be the same as the one on the bank details.

Remember that:

• The same finger of the left hand is not the same size as that of the right hand.
• The size of the same finger may vary depending on the temperature or physical activity.
• The best time of the day to determine your finger size is the evening.
• In case of doubt between two sizes, it is advisable to choose the largest.

To help you estimate your ring size we suggest you use the ring sizer on patrickvoiilot.com

1. Click the link "ring sizer-patrickvoillot.com" to download the finger chart.
2. Print the " ring sizer-patrickvoillot.com " making sure that your printer is set to "Print to real size " and not "Fit to paper".
3. Check that the print was made real size by measuring the control scale that must measure 5 cm.
4. Choose a ring that fits perfectly the finger where you want your new ring.
5. Move the ring on the colored circles: when a circle is the exact size of the inner ring of your ring, note the number in the circle ... that is your size!

The "ring sizer-patrickvoillot.com" is a practical and simple tool for you to estimate your finger size, and not an accurate measure.

Color scale of diamonds

The color of the diamonds is codified by the diamantaires and laboratories issuing certificates of authenticity using specific terms or letters ... what do  they correspond to?

The positioning of a diamond in the scale of shades of white can only be done by specialists under a specific light and only with unmounted stones.

According to geographical areas of the world, there are different terms that are used ....... to simplify we use 2 of the 3 mainly used for the sale of diamonds:

The letter from the GIA classification "Gemological Institute of America" associated with the name of CIBJO " Confédération Internationale de la Bijouterie- Joaillerie, Orfèvrerie " with the Scandinavian equivalent classification in the table below.

Diamonds codified by the letters M and the following are considered "colored" or yellow and cannot be described as " white. "

When a diamond has a plain color shade: yellow, pink, red, blue ... we quantify the intensity of its color with the words: "Fancy Light," "Fancy," "Fancy intense" and for the more pronounced color "Fancy Vivid" to which, of course, is added its color.

There are also special coding for diamonds from the Australian Argyle mine, which is the largest producer of pink and cognac diamonds ... and has created its own coding, the Argyle Scale.

The color of a diamond is also influenced by its fluorescence: lighting rich in ultra-violet type "neon", or daylight mountain light, stimulate fluorescent diamonds and change their color. This therefore ranks diamonds on a scale ranging from "no fluorescence" to "very strong fluorescence."

In conclusion untrained human eye can only appreciate some groups of shades of color ... this is why we often talk about colorless or white diamonds, nearly colorless or shaded white, slightly colored ... and also the influence of the shape and the quality of the cut that determines its brilliance, comes into play to guide the pleasure of the happy buyer!

Impurities called inclusions in gemstones are even more annoying and visible if the color of the stone is clear and its brightness low, the diamond's brilliance reduces the effect of small inclusions.

Completely pure gems do not exist ... we quantify the inclusions by examining the stones with a loupe with a magnification of 10x and positioning the stone on a scale from purest to less pure.

An internationally agreed codification can position a stone on this scale.

Since prehistoric times, colored or shiny stones have attracted men and have become a symbol of wealth and power. The renaissance saw this almost monopoly evolve and precious stones have been worn by women for their beauty.

After being for a long time cut preserving as much material as possible, the twentieth century brought the shape optimization of cuts in order to give the most brilliance possible to the gems.

The main types of cut of a gem:

brilliant cut	Asscher cut	emerald cut	oval cut
baguette cut	heart cut	pear cut	marquise cut
cushion cut	princess cut	briolette cut	radiant cut
triangle cut	trillion cut	Ceylon cut	Antwerp rose cut

Scientific advances of the twentieth century helped to better understand and identify gems, highlight the misidentification of the past on many jewels of royal crowns ...

The difference in value between two different gems of the same aspect makes it that the buyer wants to be sure that what he acquires is really that on which he will invest ... gemological laboratories fulfill this role. Since the last few decades the scientific equipment available allows competent gemologists to provide essential information:

• Identification of the type of stone: diamond, sapphire, ruby, spinel, emerald ...
• Authenticity: natural stone not synthetic.
• Origin: often country or place of origin.
• Treatments (heating or other) that has been sustained by the stone.
• Characteristics of the stone: carat weight, shape and cut, dimensions, quality of the polish and proportions of cut, fluorescence, intensity of the color, transparency, and more specifically for the diamonds color and clarity.

The certificate delivered is a true "identity card" with the characteristics of the stone.

As for the diamond, the price difference between stones of the same weight, but with differences in the shade of white and small differences in purity, is so important that the certificate is especially useful.

All the patrickvoillot.com partners provide their stones accompanied by certificates of authenticity, and for diamonds weighing more than 0.50 ct and other stones worth more than € 1,000, a certificate from an independent quality laboratory we selected can be provided.

The informations on the certificate are secured by processes of the same type as for the banknotes such as laminated paper with holograms or special inserts that are not visible to the eye. The stones can be sealed in plastic ... diamonds can even receive an invisible laser engraving carrying the certificate number.