Buck - Men's Tungsten Ring - Antler and Wood Guy's Band 8mm

The Buck is built around two inlays of natural material: deer antler and koa wood, side by side across the centre of an 8mm polished black tungsten band. The antler is pale and textured, the wood warm and grain-marked, and the black tungsten frame around them makes both stand out in a way that a silver or gold band never would. It suits men who have looked at dozens of rings, found them all variations on the same theme, and want something that actually looks different. If you have spent time searching and kept coming back to the same plain bands, this is the point where that changes.

Tungsten rates 9 on the Mohs hardness scale: only a diamond can mark it, and the black colour goes through the material itself rather than sitting as a coating on top, so there is nothing to chip or wear through with daily use. Tungsten cannot be resized, but if the fit is not right first time Newman Bands will exchange it free.

The thing buyers say most consistently about the Buck is that it looks better in person than the photos prepare you for. A UK buyer wrote a review two years after purchasing — he had been sceptical that a ring at this price could genuinely look as good as the product images suggested, and admitted he had paid considerably more for his wife’s wedding ring by comparison. Two years on, his Buck looked exactly as it did when it arrived, he had received multiple compliments on how different it looked, and his only regret was not having considered it sooner. Barbara from Machynlleth bought it as a surprise replacement for her husband after he kept losing his original plain gold wedding ring: he loved how different it looked from anything he had worn before, and so did she.

More than half the reviews with text on the Buck were written by someone buying it for another person, which is worth knowing if you are in that position yourself. Dina from Cramlington spent months searching for her partner’s wedding ring, found nothing he liked elsewhere, and described the Buck as looking even better than the pictures once it arrived. Laura from London bought it as a gift for her partner and called the quality exactly what she had hoped for. If you are choosing a ring for someone else and wondering whether it will land the way you intend, the pattern across these reviews gives a clear answer: it does.

You have 100 days to try it at home. If it’s not right for any reason, return it for  free.