Which Ring Should You Choose to Celebrate 10 Years of Marriage?

Tin symbolises a flexible, enduring union: a metal that does not corrode, bends without breaking, and has accompanied domestic life since Antiquity. For ten years together, the metaphor holds true.

It does, however, have one practical flaw: one does not give a tin ring. The metal is too soft for jewellery worn every day; it scratches, deforms and cannot withstand any serious setting. Tradition therefore leaves you with a blank page.

Our advice, the same as for twenty years: these lists are useful when you do not know what to give, and perfectly ignorable when you do. After ten years together, you know their tastes better than a 20^th -century nomenclature.

To place the tenth year among anniversaries that do designate a gem.

Two anniversaries out of five designate a gemstone. The others leave the field open — and that is probably for the best, because a list does not know the person you are giving to.

A workshop observation, since we see these projects every month. Ten-year rings do not resemble twenty-year rings, still less engagement rings.

Budgets are often more modest : after ten years of marriage, one often has a mortgage and young children. Tastes, meanwhile, are more defined — ten years are enough to know what one likes to wear, and what one never wears.

Hence a consequence we find rather pleasing: it is the anniversary when one dares the most. Bright colours, stones one did not know, designs that would not have suited an engagement ring. That is precisely why the following two families are so often chosen for this occasion.

Let us begin with what works, because after ten years of marriage, one no longer wants to get it wrong. The three great coloured stones cover the majority of the projects we create for this anniversary — and each answers a different intention.

The safest choice

Sapphire

Hardness 9 out of 10, ten colours, and the stone of fidelity. It is the one worn every day without thinking about it, for the next ten years.

Blue 1.26 ct · €5,160

The most symbolic

Emerald

The stone of renewal, and that of the fortieth anniversary, given thirty years earlier. A protective setting should be considered at the same time as the gemstone.

1.46 ct · €8,760

The most intense

Ruby

The same mineral as sapphire, the same hardness — but passion rather than constancy. The rarest of the three beyond two carats.

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Available creations, prices observed in September 2026.

If there is only one thing to remember: after ten years, the stone should be chosen above all for everyday wear. An anniversary ring that sleeps in a box is a failed gift, whatever its value. Sapphire and ruby, at 9 on the Mohs scale, raise no questions. Emerald, between 7.5 and 8, raises just one — that of the setting — and it is resolved through design.

If the big three do not speak to you — or if she already has all the sapphire she needs —, two more discreet families are worth exploring. They share three qualities: colours that corundum does not produce, generous sizes within a modest budget, and the fact that no one will recognise them.

Spessartite garnet

Unrivalled orange

An orange to orange-red with a saturation no other gemstone achieves in this hue. Like all garnets, it is neither heated nor oiled : no treatment to declare. A spessartite garnet engagement ring starts at around €3,960.

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Tourmaline

The broadest palette

From green to pink, via lilac and bi-coloured stones, no other family covers as many shades — and it is the one that offers the greatest surface area on the finger for a given budget. A tourmaline engagement ring starts at around €2,760.

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At the ten-year mark, this is the option we recommend most often — and the one least often considered.

Ten years of daily wear is precisely when the setting begins to show its age while the stone remains intact. The underside of the band flattens against neighbouring fingers, the prongs loosen, and the white gold has lost its rhodium plating. The gemstone, meanwhile, has not moved a millimetre.

The process is simple: we examine the stone — its nature, actual dimensions measured with callipers, and the condition of the setting — then design a new setting around it. The cost covers the setting alone, from €1,250 for a simple design, since the main component is already there. And the gold from the old ring can be melted down and reused.