The Vulcan

Size 13, close at the base and over the knuckle fine. The bit I like is that the mottling does not repeat, so the ring genuinely has four different faces depending how it turns. Reservation, that also means you cannot get a matching pair.

First evening I thought it was too dark and I'd made the wrong call, size 11. A week later, against a dark jacket, it read as textured rather than black. The mottling is in the metal rather than sitting on top of it.

Size 11, ordered a month before our February wedding after measuring warm. It fit then and it fits now, eighteen months on, and I have not taken it off in that time.

Handed over on the sofa still wrapped, my wife not saying a word. What I had not expected was how dark it is out of the box, closer to charcoal than grey, and matt enough that it takes a moment to see the shape of it.

My brother ordered it for me in a 12 after watching his own Enso band split at the seam, and it fit at the base without adjustment. It clears the knuckle without soap.

I had returned a Vitaly band because its dark finish turned out to be a coating that wore through, so I asked here whether the forged texture is surface or structural, and they said the mottling is in the metal itself. Two years on there is no grey showing anywhere.

A year of daily wear before comparing it fairly. My old band was polished and I was forever wiping it; this is mottled dark and shows nothing at all. Size 12, close at the base, and the fit is the same as day one.

A 12 sits close at the base and goes easily over the knuckle. The dark surface is mottled rather than uniform, so it reads more like stone than metal, and it has stayed that way for eighteen months.

Ordered Monday, here Thursday. Size 10, close at the base and over the knuckle without force, and it arrived boxed with a sizing gauge and a cloth. Straightforward.

I bought it for my husband because he wanted something dark that was not black. The forged surface is mottled with lighter and darker patches rather than one tone. It came boxed with a sizing gauge and a cloth, and he has worn it since.

I caught it on a fence post about a month after our May wedding and went looking for a bright scratch. There was nothing obvious, because a mottled surface has nowhere for a clean line to show. Size 12, and the fit has not changed in the two years since.

Bought for my son-in-law in a 13, which fit him at the base without adjustment. The dark surface is mottled rather than even, so it does not look like a coating. He has worn it since the day it arrived.