Oval Solitaire Studs 14k Gold Lab Grown Diamond

The shape that makes the whole ear look longer.

An oval carries its weight lengthwise, and that changes two things at once. It looks bigger than a round of the same carat, and it draws a soft vertical line down the lobe instead of sitting there as a dot. Three martini prongs hold it low and flush, so it elongates without ever announcing itself. This is what women choose when they want scale without hardness.

✦ The Oval Cut

An oval is a brilliant cut stretched along one axis. It keeps the faceting that gives a round its fire but spreads the same carat weight across a longer footprint, which means more visible diamond for the number you paid for. A one-carat oval simply looks like more stone on the ear than a one-carat round does. That is not a trick of styling, it is geometry.

The elongation is also the reason it flatters. An oval follows the natural line of the lobe rather than cutting across it, and the eye reads that vertical as length. Light behaves gently too: brightest through the centre, with a soft glow at each end instead of the hard flashes you get from princess or emerald. Reach for it if round feels too expected and the angular cuts feel too severe.

• Stone: Oval-cut lab-grown diamond, elongated brilliant faceting
• Clarity: VS+, eye-clean
• Color: EF+, near-colorless and bright white
• Cut: Excellent
• Carat weight: 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ctw
• Setting: Three-prong martini, with the prongs placed at the ends and side so the long axis stays clear

✦ Metal & Construction

• Solid 14k gold throughout, in yellow or white. Not plated, not filled, not vermeil.
• The martini basket tapers to a point below the stone, three prongs and very little metal, so nothing interrupts the oval outline from the front.
• Prong placement matters more on an elongated stone than a symmetrical one. Ours grip the two narrow ends and one side, which keeps the diamond from rotating in its setting and going crooked mid-day.
• Push backs on both posts, seated firmly on the post so the long axis stays where you put it.
• Built for your order in your chosen metal and carat.

✦ How to Wear It

Set the long axis vertical. That is the version that lengthens the lobe and, by extension, the whole side of the face. Turned horizontal an oval reads wide and slightly off, so glance at a mirror after you put them in and give each one a quarter turn if needed.

Ovals stack beautifully with anything curved. A plain gold huggie or a small hoop above them repeats the shape and makes a two-piercing ear look designed rather than accumulated. From 3ct upward the oval starts behaving like a drop earring while still sitting flush against the lobe, so hair up, neckline simple, and skip the statement necklace. In yellow gold the warmth softens the outline further. In white gold the oval reads sleeker and taller.

✦ Why Lab-Grown Diamonds

• Chemically and optically identical to mined diamonds. Same carbon lattice, same 10 on the Mohs scale, same fire.
• Graded against the same 4Cs by the same gemological standards, which is how we can hold every stone to EF colour and VS clarity.
• Traceable origin. You know exactly where each diamond came from.
• Meaningfully better value. Combined with the oval's face-up spread, this is the most visible diamond per dollar in the Martini family.

✦ Perfect For

• Wanting presence without wanting to look like you are trying.
• Anyone who wears their hair up most days and has a lot of ear on show.
• The promotion, the funding round, the year the numbers finally worked.
• Weddings, dinners and anywhere a round feels safe and a princess feels sharp.
• Everyday, at 1 or 2ct. Plenty of women put these in and never take them out.

✦ Care & Longevity

• Solid 14k gold will not tarnish or fade. It only needs cleaning.
• Warm water, mild soap, soft toothbrush. Run the brush along the underside of the basket where oil collects, especially at the two narrow ends.
• Take them out before you sleep. An elongated stone rotates against a pillow, and the push back loosens with the movement.
• No showering, no swimming. Chlorine attacks the alloys in gold, and soap film under the setting dulls the light fast.
• In last, after perfume, hairspray and sunscreen.

✦ Made to Order

Every pair is built for your order, with the two stones matched to each other for colour and for length-to-width ratio so both ears read identical. Made to order, ships in 2–5 weeks, between Nov 10 and Dec 1.

• Returns accepted within 20 business days of delivery for store credit or exchange, unless stated otherwise under product.