A flush setting is invisible engineering. The stone sits in a seat cut to half a tenth of a millimetre; the metal is burnished over the girdle rather than clawed.
It takes our setter forty minutes per stone. A pavé band of twenty stones is a day of work before polishing. This is why the ring feels like nothing against a sleeve — and why it survives one.
The Geneva bench
Every Aurelia piece is set at one bench in Geneva by two people whose names are in the certificate. When a piece comes back for resizing, the same hands open it.
