Russian Wedding Ring in 18ct Gold, three interlocking bands of three different Gold colours: Yellow, White and Rose.
The Russian Wedding Ring was introduced in Russia in the 1800s, and originally had a religious significance, said in its three interlocking bands to represent the three elements of the Holy Trinity; it was one of the wedding gifts in a fervently religious period.
In 1924 Louis Cartier, the grandson of the founder of the jewellery house of Cartier, lit upon the idea of the three interlocking bands to represent the three eternal human virtues of love, faith and hope, and asked his friend Jean Cocteau to create the model for a Cartier Russian Wedding Ring. Jean Cocteau, then in his thirties and one of the very brightest stars of the Parisian intellectual and artistic worlds of the high octane inter-war years, complied and his design, the three interlocking bands sliding easily one over the other on the finger, is still being sold by Cartier one hundred years on.