When walking through a city like New York, I’m not afraid to look up at the skyscrapers like a tourist, or slow down for a moment to admire an architectural detail. It’s easy to become hard, cynical and always in a hurry when you live in a city, to see only your feet hitting the pavement and feel only frustration for all the ways in which things just don’t work the way they should. But there’s also so much inspiration to be found in these masses of people and their creations all gathered in one place. So while keeping one eye on the street, we must also remember to look up and find moments of peace, glimmers of beauty in the world around us.

The urban landscape provides many opportunities for such moments. Gaze out a window at just the right angle, and the top of the garden wall aligns with the facade of a brick building, framing the glass edifice of a skyscraper in the distance, a simple but pleasing arrangement of shapes and textures. Sunlight dances on a tower of glass, calling to mind a massive topaz, clear rock quartz, hazy moon quartz, or deep-colored garnet.

The contrast of black asphalt against yellow lane markings and traffic lights. The geometry of streets and signposts. The lines and angles of gilded entryways and wrought iron gates. The hexagonal patterns in the concrete barricades along a highway. The bold sophistication of modern architecture stands beside the mysterious embellishments of a hundred-year-old stone building.

Whether walking down the street or watching buildings pass from a car window, these momentary alignments provide endless inspiration for our Geometrix collection.

The beauty of the natural environment is in its patterned chaos: the layers of leaves, the unpredictable twists, and turns of branches and vines, and the hive hex formations. But underlying it all is a pattern, the laws of nature. The built world has its patterns and its chaos as well, but the landscape of the modern city is one of symmetry, edges, and geometry—and it is no less beautiful or inspiring than nature.

The shape that best demonstrates the unity of nature and engineering is the hexagon, which we feature frequently in the Geometrix collection. In natural structures like Devils Tower in Wyoming and the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, volcanic rock cooled to form hexagonal structures that look strangely manmade: a squat tower in the case of Devils Tower, and something like a cobblestone street in the Giant’s Causeway. Likewise, bees, nature’s engineers, recognize the efficiency and strength of the hexagon in the construction of their hives. Why are we so entranced by the shape? Why does it resonate with us in a way that a rectangle or pentagon does not? There’s a sort of cosmic perfection in the shape that appeals to us beyond logic or reason. We share with bees a knowledge we cannot put into words.

In nature, as in the city, there is both order and chaos, structure and spontaneity. The Geometrix collection seeks to embrace the harmony of both.

Named for the paper rings that distinguish one brand of cigar from another, the right cigar band ring can set you apart and become just as much a marker of your personal taste and style as stylized cigar bands are for different brands of cigars.

On their own, cigar bands make a bold statement. If you’re only going to wear one ring, one thick cigar band is the way to go. But their shape also makes them perfect for stacking. Our cigar bands feature simple yet elegant and sophisticated designs that look great alone and take on a different character when stacked with your favorite rings. And if you’re not someone who wants to wear their wedding ring every day, a cigar band on the ring finger can do the job, and with a little more character, at that.

Simple Band of Gold

There’s a lot you can do with a simple band of gold. With so much surface area, the metal takes center stage, which means we can give each piece a little character with different finishes. Just look at what a change of finish does for each of these cigar bands.

The Emilia Cosmic Diamond Band features a classic polished finish, clear and confident, a canvas for the diamonds studded across its surface.

The satin finish of the Geometrix Diamond Band offers a more modern, streamlined, and powerful look, reinforced by the geometric bands of diamonds like pillars supporting the walls of a fortress, or the façade of a modern skyscraper.

The Cosmic Moon Quartz Stars Band, on the other hand, has a brushed finish that adds to the soft, ethereal quality of the hazy moon quartz and twinkling diamond starburst motif.

A Grand Platform

The placement of the diamonds and the finish on the gold produce totally different effects, even though each piece uses the same materials—18k yellow gold and diamonds. That’s what we love about cigar bands. They give you a grand platform for a statement, whether on their own or stacked with another smaller ring. No matter your style, we’ve got a cigar band for you.

How many of us have said, "I think about it all the time but I can't figure out what my passion is"?

Well, the reason we can't figure it out is that it doesn't work that way. One does not discover passion by thinking about it.

We don't think passion, we experience passion. Passion comes as a by-product of putting effort into something meaningful.

The only way to experience passion is to put effort into that which is important to us. Passion manifests as a result of wholehearted effort. 

Go follow your interests. Experiment, explore, discover. Do things worth doing until you ignite that spark inside yourself. But, remember, igniting your spark is like falling in love.

That's the easy part. Staying in love and weathering the inevitable storms is the hard part.

It takes time, commitment, and continuous effort to keep a fire burning. The more care and effort you put into it: the better it gets. 

You can't discover your passion just by thinking about it.