The Mystery Setting
The Mystery Setting is a a proprietary mounting technique for gems. There are no visible prongs, instead the individual stones are hand grooved to fit into a mesh of gold or platinum wire.
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Famous quotes containing the words mystery and/or setting:
“The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“it is finally as though that thing of monstrous interest
were happening in the sky
but the sun is setting and prevents you from seeing it”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)