11/12/2019 My wife bought a beautiful 13 plus carat aquamarine stone while she lived on St Croix in the USVI years ago. Over the years we have often thought of finding a good custom jeweler to create a beautiful setting for her stone. In July of this year (2019) we moved to Stuart Florida. We took Pat's stone to another local jeweler with decades of experience. The result left much to be desired. We then heard about John David Cooney. We made an appointment to go in to talk with John David. I had come up with a couple of possible ideas and wanted John David's opinion. John David sat down with us, went over our ideas, asked many questions to get an idea of what we were looking for, then began to jot down initial ideas of his own. The end result was a magnificent, hand made, one of a kind, true masterpiece in white gold. John David created an exceptionally bold ring out of white gold that really showed of Pat's large aquamarine to the max. We are overwhelmed at the beauty and creativity of the ring that John David Cooney made for us and would highly recommend that anyone looking for that uniquely personal piece of jewelry make a point to visit John David Cooney at his place of business in Stuart Florida. Believe us, you will not be disappointed. read more