The year was 1967, and America was at a crossroads. One that saw Andy Griffith as the top sheriff of the TV airwaves and Frank Sinatra as the Chairman of the Billboard ratings with a new #1 song, even as the first counterculture rumblings gave us Rolling Stone magazine, "Hair," and a guitarist named Jimi Hendrix. That same year Masai tribesmen in Eastern Africa stumbled upon a brilliantly colored gemstone that would soon take the world by storm, too: tanzanite. Known to exist in an area only a few kilometers long at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro, this 40-years-young gemstone with its distinctive violet bluish hue is so rare, it's expected to become extinct in 10-20 years.

Of course, rarity and potential increase in value, while wonderful, are not what friends will be oohing and aahing over upon spotting your gorgeous new tanzanite ring! Made of gleaming 14k white gold, it's swept with 29 pave-set round tanzanites. This triple-row swath of twilight twinkle is complemented by frosty borders of genuine white diamonds (1/5 ctw). And, unlike those groovy bellbottoms and go-go boots of '67, your elegant tanzanite ring will transcend frivolous fads for decades to come. Whole sizes 5-10.