Patent ID: 8316667

Claim:
A method of producing a gemstone setting comprising: a) providing a substantially transparent primary gem and a set of four colored objects, wherein the primary gem comprises a flat bottom; b) assigning a focal region beneath and remote from the primary gem in an opaque, metallic structural casting; c) determining a plurality of facet angles that optically align each of a plurality of facets positioned around the primary gem with the assigned focal region such that: i) a plurality of optical path vectors are directed through the primary gem and to the assigned focal region, and ii) each object positioned within the focal region is displayed as a plurality of images through the primary gem; d) fixedly positioning the four colored objects along a plane within the structural casting; e) faceting the top of the primary gem according to the plurality of facet angles to form the plurality of facets; and f) mounting the primary gem to the structural casting, wherein the primary gem is mounted above and at a distance from the four colored objects to position the colored objects in the focal region thereby displaying in at least one orientation a plurality of images corresponding to each colored object through the primary gem.