Pear engagement rings in San Diego: the outline is everything, so pick it with your eyes.

A pear’s grading report tells you weight, color, and clarity. It does not tell you whether the shoulders are even, whether the wings curve gracefully into the point, or how strong the bow-tie shadow is across the middle. Those are the things you actually see on the hand every day, and they are what I am looking at when I source pears one at a time. Most of what I get offered goes back for one of those three reasons.

Natural and lab-grown pears both come through my desk, and I judge them by the same standard. At many budgets the honest move is to compare both origins face-up in the same lighting and let the stones argue for themselves. I hold no inventory, so I have no reason to steer you either way.

Everything happens privately and by appointment, not across a counter with a case of preset rings behind me. We agree on the design and the numbers in writing, you approve the final plan before production starts, and the wedding band relationship gets solved on paper before the engagement ring is ever cast. If at any point a pear stops feeling like your shape, walking away costs you nothing but the conversation.