The gold, ruby, and diamond-encrusted ... with New York jewelers to design the ring. “Sitting atop a diamond-encrusted gold band is the ‘crown’ itself: a gold circlet studded with the ...

The ring’s design is intricate and rich with ... a gold circlet studded with a central cabochon ruby flanked by pavé-cut diamonds. The crown itself includes 16 descending spikes, with the ...

A diamond and ruby ring designed by rap legend Tupac Shakur ... well beyond the $300,000 it was expected to fetch. Tupac designed the crown ring in 1996, just before he was shot and killed in ...