A young woman leans on a glass jewelry counter and says, “I need help.” The jeweler on the other side is Kerri Lavine, who posts as @godmotherofdiamonds, and the problem is a gold wedding band the woman says she pulled out of the sea in Italy.

“I found this ring,” she tells Lavine. She was snorkeling in the Adriatic, she says, when “I found something shiny and I picked it up. I thought it was just gonna be like a random, you know, whatever ring, but it was a wedding ring.” What changed her plans was on the inside of the band: “It has a name engraved into it.” It has a date too, she adds, and she wants to find the owner.

Lavine asks whether the woman found her through social media. She did not. “One of my best friend’s mom knows you,” the finder says, explaining that she “didn’t want to, like, go to somebody weird or sketchy in the Diamond District,” so she asked who to trust and was sent to this counter.

Lavine, in a navy sweater with an American flag across the front, sees a use for her own account at once. “So this makes an interesting story,” she says. “Could we use the social media platform to find the person that this ring belongs to? Let’s see how good it works.” The weak point of the plan comes up right away as well: “You can get a lot of crazy people answering stuff.”

Then she does the jeweler’s part. She raises the band to a loupe held against her eye and reports what she sees: “So you got a little diamond in here. It’s like a five point little tiny diamond in the ring.” She identifies the metal as 18 karat yellow gold. Inside the band she reads out a man’s first name, spelling it letter by letter for the camera, and then the second half of the engraving: “The date inscribed in here is the year 2017.”

The finder supplies the location. She found the ring, she says, “off the coast of a specific beach club” in Puglia. When Lavine asks which one, a map listing for Calderisi Mare Beach Club fills the screen.

From there Lavine sets the terms, and she holds one fact back. She gives the name and the year, but not the rest of the date. If the person who lost the band “can read the rest of the date,” she says, “we’d be happy to return this ring to you.” She repeats the condition near the end while holding the band up to the lens between two fingers: “If you can provide us with the date inside this ring, it’s yours. We’re gonna give it back to you.” Claims are to go to her business by email or to her by direct message.

She also wants to know why the finder went to the trouble. “You could have just kept the ring and worn it, but instead, you wanted to do good and pay it forward and find the owner,” Lavine says. The answer: “Well, I was going to a wedding, so I felt like it was only right to return it back to the person who got married and had love.” It was not the ring owner’s wedding, the finder clarifies. “Going to a wedding in Italy, and then I found a wedding band.”

Lavine ties it to an earlier case of her own. “I had an incident with a little girl that lost a necklace that was stolen off her neck,” she says. “And it really got to me. It tugged at my heartstrings. And we replaced that.” Her last line is aimed at one viewer: “We got your ring right here.” The video was posted September 16, 2026, with a caption that opens “HELP US FIND THE OWNER!” No owner comes forward in the video.

How to Return an Engraved Ring the Way This Jeweler Set It Up

Write down where and when you found it while you still remember exactly. The finder here could name the sea, the region and the beach club, and that is what lets the right person recognize the loss. Tell the venue too, and leave a way to reach you.

Have a jeweler you were referred to read the ring before you describe it to anyone. The finder knew there was a name and a date. It took Lavine and a loupe to add the small diamond, the 18 karat gold and a clear reading of the inscription.

Publish part of the engraving and keep part of it private. Lavine shares the first name and the year and holds back the rest of the date as the test. Anyone can say a ring is theirs. Only the couple will know the day.

Ask every claimant for the withheld detail first, in writing, before sharing photos of the inside of the band or discussing shipping. Leave the ring with one accountable person, and give out one way to make contact.

If you wear an engraved band yourself, photograph the inside of it today and store the picture with the exact wording. That photo is the proof this video asks for.