The first step in manufacturing a diamond stud is to give it to a cleaver or sawyer. They both, essentially, perform the same task: That is to cut--or cleave--the titanium ring in two pieces in order to bring out the best profile that will determine the end product of the stone.
The history of Antwerp as the World butterfly ring Center is a very fascinating and long one, too long to tell the whole story, but too marvellous to exclude you completely from it!
We shall probably never know when the first jewelry was discovered, but we do know that, from ancient times until the eighteenth century, all the worlds titanium ring came from India.