Ring of the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar

The 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar is the sporting event of the year 2022. And it is all the more interesting for jewelers as the 2018 edition with the victory of the French team, gave rise to the creation of a championship ring to celebrate this victory.

This ring, completely different from the style of American championship rings, was made by Los Angeles jeweler Jason Arasheben.

This huge ring is interesting in terms of design, but it may disappoint some football fans in the sense that we cannot differentiate it from other American championship rings made for championships of other sports such as American football or basketball.

Regarding this historic ring for the players of the French national team, we can regret two things:

• Which was made by Americans, who are not very passionate about football
• The style of the ring, a bit tacky for a football fan

For this reason we wanted to satisfy ourselves by imagining a ring commemorating the world football event which is 100% in the DNA of the leather ball and which will appeal to football fans who are usually not interested in jewellery.

To make it even more interesting, the basic design will be subjected to criticism to take into account comments from football fans allowing us to create commemorative versions completely unimaginable to us jewelers.

The specifications of this ring are as follows:

• The ring is a ball or unmistakably evokes a soccer ball
• It must be of a reasonable size so that it can be worn on the finger and be a jewel of life and not just to be displayed on a shelf
• It must be made of silver to be within the reach of every football fan, knowing that an all gold version is always possible

Taking into account these points that seemed important to us, we opted for this project of a silver football ring enriched with 18k yellow gold elements that directly refer to the 2022 football cup, namely:

• Presence of the 2022 football cup
• Presence of the map of Qatar
• Presence of mention: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

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With this design and in size 60 the ring is 18 millimeters long (in the direction of the finger) and 26 millimeters wide for a finger diameter of 19 millimetres, the ring is therefore 3.5 millimeters thick on each side, which is completely acceptable for this type of ring with an 18 carat gold weight of approximately 3.5 grams.

Make the ring

Once the design is complete we can move on to 3D printing the different parts of the ring project. 3D printing consists of obtaining a wax part from the digital model of the ring.

Here is an image showing the ring of the green resin ring as well as the same ring obtained in 925 silver following the lost wax casting process.

The same goes for the other 18k gold pieces in the project which are 3D printed and then made into 18k yellow gold with the same process.

In this image we can see the ring obtained in wax through the 3D printing process, then the same ring obtained through lost wax casting in solid silver and finally the upper circle of the ring in 18k yellow gold also obtained through the lost wax casting process.

Then follows the filing, polishing and assembly of the 4 pieces of our puzzle to obtain the ring as imagined at the beginning of the project.

Next steps in progress:

• Development of a design in France, Mexico, England, Brazil version
• Design of a diamond version
• Taking into account the «constructive» comments of football fans

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