Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Single Symbol By Lady Ochel Espinosa
SINGELRINGEN is a Swedish company, whose product, also called Singelringen, is a "single ring". This unisex ring, featuring a turquoise color acrylic layer shining over a silver band, is worn on the right hand or on a neck chain as the opposite of a wedding ring, to signify that the wearer is available for dating. On the inside of each ring is inscribed a unique registration number.
Johan Wahlbeck, the founder of Singelringen, while enjoying his single life, recognized that although married people and engaged people have rings, there is nothing that allows single people to clearly announce their status.
Singelringen started selling in Sweden in April, 2005 and is now a well-known brand in Scandinavia, and has expanded to Europe, South America, Japan, and Asia. It is currently being introduced to the US and also in the Philippines.
Wearers who find themselves in a committed relationship report that they retire the ring to a safe place or pass them along to friends or family members.
Singles finally have their own way to make a statement. If you're like Hollywood star Sandra Bullock, our famous Bachelor Andrew Firestone, Britain's Cat Deeley, or millions of other 'ordinary' men and women, you're unmarried - and hey, surprise - you're also having the time of your life! Perhaps Deeley says it best: "There's always time to get married.
I think it's great to go out there and have some experience. "
That just about captures the zeitgeist. For both men and women in the post Sex in the City era, being single is an 'equal opportunity' adventure -- not a problem to be solved.
Singelringen signals your single status to the world.
To honor the growing number of singles around the world who are proud to show off their single status, 30-something (and avowedly single) Swedish entrepreneur Johan Walbeck and his also single business partner Esa Revland have introduced the world's first finger ring for singles.
Singelringen, literally - 'the single ring' in Swedish, is a beautifully crafted, shimmering turquoise ring that single men and women are happy to wear to signify that they're single - and to identify one another.
Singelringen's Swedish heritage is evident in its casual, elegant design and quality craftsmanship. The design of the ring brings together new and traditional material in an outer band of light-catching turquoise acrylic melded to a weighty inner silver band. A distinctive crescent shape cut into the acrylic allows the silver to shine through and signifies the wearer's openness to new conversations, friendships, or romantic relationships.
