Pear Stud 14k Gold Lab Grown Diamond

A drop that never drops.

The pear is the only shape in this collection with a direction. It rounds at one end and tapers to a point at the other, so a single stone reads like a tiny suspended drop while still sitting flat and secure against the lobe. You get the line of a drop earring with none of the swing, nothing catching on a scarf, and no reaching up at eleven at night to check they are both still there.

✦ The Pear Cut

A pear is half round brilliant and half marquise, and it behaves like both. The rounded end scatters the same wide fire a round does. The tapered end funnels that light into a narrow tip that glows brighter than any other part of the stone. That asymmetry is why a pear looks like it is moving even when it is perfectly still, and it is why the shape has never gone out of fashion in over three hundred years.

Because it points, you get to decide what it says. Tip up toward the top of the ear and the line lifts, which reads editorial and slightly unexpected. Tip down toward the jaw and it becomes a classic drop, softer and more romantic. Most women wear it point down the first month and point up by the third. The tip is also the delicate part of any pear, so ours is cradled by a dedicated prong rather than left exposed.

• Stone: Pear-cut lab-grown diamond, brilliant faceting tapering to a point
• 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, one prong cradling the point and two at the rounded shoulders

✦ Metal & Construction

• Solid 14k gold throughout, in yellow or white. Not plated, not filled, not vermeil.
• The martini basket tapers to a point beneath the stone, three prongs and very little metal, which keeps the pear's outline crisp instead of blunted by hardware.
• The prong over the tip does the real work. It is the difference between a pear that survives a decade of daily wear and one that chips on a car door.
• Set low and flush against the lobe, so a directional stone stays where you aimed it instead of tipping forward.
• Push backs on both posts. Press them firmly and the orientation holds all day.
• Built for your order in your chosen metal and carat.

✦ How to Wear It

Decide your orientation and commit for the day. Point down flatters a rounder face and softens everything. Point up draws the eye toward the top of the ear and pairs beautifully with pulled-back hair. Whichever you choose, make both ears match, because a mismatched pair of pears looks like an accident rather than a decision.

If you have a second piercing, this is the shape that rewards it: run the pear point up in the lower hole and set a small round stud above it, and the ear reads as one continuous rising line. Below the ear, the pear plays well with anything that repeats the shape. At 3ct and above the stud starts doing the work of a real drop earring, so keep the neck bare and let it be the only thing happening.

✦ 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, which in a pear matters twice over, since matching two stones for outline and symmetry is what usually pushes the price of a fancy-shape pair out of reach.

✦ Perfect For

• Wanting a drop earring that survives a full working day.
• Weddings, dinners and long evenings where you cannot be fiddling with your jewelry.
• The woman who finds round studs a little plain and chandeliers a little much.
• A second piercing you have never quite known what to do with.
• Buying yourself something romantic without waiting for a reason.

✦ Care & Longevity

• Solid 14k gold will not tarnish or fade. It only needs cleaning.
• Warm water, mild soap, soft toothbrush. Work carefully around the tip, where residue gathers and where the brightest light in the stone comes from.
• Take them out before you sleep. A pointed stone catches on hair and pillowcases, and the push back loosens with the pull.
• No showering, no swimming. Chlorine attacks the alloys in gold.
• In last, after perfume, hairspray and sunscreen.

✦ Made to Order

Every pair is built for your order, with the two stones matched for colour and for outline, so both pears taper at the same rate and sit as a true pair. 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.