Meet The Beverly Hills Jeweler Who Crafted The Seahawks' Super Bowl Ring

The lord of nan rings useful down a nondescript doorway successful a Beverly Hills agency building, not acold from nan UCLA field wherever he erstwhile sold hairsbreadth clips and trinkets from a folding table. Jason Arasheben was $28,000 successful indebtedness backmost then, moving debased connected options. Now, 8 of nan past 11 NBA champions person worn his jewelry connected their fingers.

Super Bowl winners person his rings, excessively — nan Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Philadelphia Eagles and nan Seattle Seahawks, whose players opened their ornate jewelry boxes astatine a backstage squad statement Thursday nighttime to find nan prize each NFL subordinate covets.

The Seahawks ring, ample arsenic a child’s fist, is encrusted pinch 20 carats of achromatic diamonds and bluish sapphires. It’s a miniature Lumen Field, featuring nan hawk-head logo and 2 Lombardi Trophies. The apical lifts disconnected and converts into a pendant. Inside is simply a cowhide conception of a game-used football. Twelve flags connected nan sides motion to nan “12th Man” instrumentality base; 1 is simply a concealed fastener — push it and nan arches popular retired to uncover nan words “World Champions.”

A look astatine nan Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl ringing celebrating their 2025 play championship.

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Even nan container performs. Three mini spotlights radiance connected nan ringing arsenic it rotates connected a mechanical platform. Each weighs astir a 3rd of a pound.

“It’s a memento to a definite play of time,” said Arasheben, whose institution is Jason of Beverly Hills. He concedes nan rings are person to trophies than wearable jewelry. He competes for ringing contracts pinch Tiffany & Co. and Jostens, some overmuch larger operations. “It celebrates this clip that these players and these fans will retrieve forever.”

His rings appraise for $50,000 to $250,000, though nan marketplace tin push them higher. In 2024, Kobe Bryant’s 2000 Lakers ringing sold astatine auction for $927,000, nan highest value ever paid for an NBA title ring, topping Bill Russell’s 1957 ringing astatine $705,000.

Beverly Hills jewler Jason Arasheben is

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NFL franchises typically bid 2 aliases 3 times what NBA, NHL aliases MLB teams petition — arsenic galore arsenic 3,000 rings successful 4 value tiers. Lower-level labor mightiness get cubic zirconia alternatively of diamonds. A constricted number of instrumentality versions are disposable astatine smaller standard and little price. Arasheben ever builds 2 other into his statement truthful each of his sons tin person one.

A profession successful luxury jewelry was ne'er nan plan. He grew up successful Granada Hills and Calabasas; his Iranian begetter and Norwegian mother envisioned a doctor, lawyer aliases engineer. At UCLA, he recovered himself much willing successful bars than books.

“I was $28,000 successful indebtedness because I enjoyed going retired acold excessively much, for illustration each different assemblage student,” he said.

One time he tagged on pinch a friend to nan wholesale territory downtown and had a flash of inspiration. She was buying integrative hairsbreadth clips and metallic trinkets by nan dozen. He figured he could waste them to girls connected campus.

He sounded nan thought of a folding array to nan university, which agreed erstwhile he offered to divided nan profits. He bought $400 worthy of tchotchkes. One array became two, past six locations crossed Southern California campuses.

Then came nan motherlode. He built acrylic show cases holding 30 to 40 pieces and drove from Agoura Hills to San Diego, stopping astatine each nail salon he could find, splitting nan profits pinch owners who fto him put a lawsuit connected nan counter. By his elder year, he had agreements pinch astir 350 salons and was clearing $25,000 to $30,000 a month.

After college, arsenic a regular connected nan L.A. nightclub scene, Arasheben built relationships pinch master athletes and celebrities. He would spell location and sketch concatenation designs for players he’d met, knowing thing astir nan jewelry industry.

“Finally, an NBA subordinate said, ‘Why don’t you travel to my edifice room tomorrow earlier we play nan Lakers and bring each nan jewelry you have? I’m going to bargain thing from you,’” said Arasheben, describing an brushwood pinch nan precocious Anthony Mason.

Problem was, he had nary jewelry. He spent nan nighttime cutting pictures from magazines and downloading images to create a makeshift catalog, past promised Mason a civilization $40,000 necklace. Mason put down $20,000.

Arasheben went downtown, knocked connected doors and recovered personification to make it for $37,000. A caller business was born, increasing by connection of mouth. Eventually he had 4 labor and a mini agency downtown, outsourcing astir of his work.

Through his relationship pinch Jim Buss, boy of proprietor Jerry Buss, Arasheben landed nan statement to make nan Lakers’ 2009 title ring. It was a huffy scramble. He and his labor slept successful sleeping bags connected nan mill level nan last 2 weeks of production.

“We delivered nan very past subordinate ringing 20 minutes earlier nan ceremonial began,” he said. “The ringing ceremonial was connected nationalist television, and tin you ideate if they had to denote nan rings weren’t ready? My profession would person been complete earlier it started.”

He made nan Lakers ringing successful 2010, too, and 5 years later — done relationships pinch respective Golden State players — produced 4 title rings for nan Warriors.

Tom Brady saw LeBron James’ ringing during nan 2020 offseason and convinced nan Buccaneers to spell pinch Arasheben.

A batch of Arasheben’s rings person James Bond elements specified arsenic concealed compartments aliases typical elements. The apical comes disconnected nan miniature SoFi Stadium connected nan Rams ring, for instance, and nan section beneath is made of a melted-down spot of nan existent artificial turf. The World Series ringing of nan Texas Rangers features a mini circle of leather from a game-used baseball.

He first incorporated a typical characteristic successful nan 2018 Warriors ring, erstwhile a prima subordinate objected to a bluish look and wanted white, only weeks from delivery. Arasheben devised a system allowing nan look to move colors.

Jason Arasheben poses pinch immoderate of nan sports title rings he has crafted complete nan years.

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“We started getting a batch of title ringing contracts aft that,” he said. “Because we took it to a caller level and showed immoderate ingenuity. We wanted to beryllium innovative.”

Push a fastener connected nan Eagles’ ringing and wings popular retired connected nan sides. Arasheben came up pinch that thought while shopping for a Buzz Lightyear artifact for his nephew.

Buzz, too, has wings that popular out.

“I thought, ‘I tin do that for nan Eagles, but pinch astonishing golden and diamonds,’” he said.

He will put a connection together to make nan medals for nan 2028 Olympic Games successful Los Angeles. Then there’s nan 1 that sewage away.

“We mislaid retired connected nan L.A. Dodgers,” Arasheben said. “They went pinch a institution based successful Canada alternatively of nan hometown team, which collapsed my heart. But you know, that’s portion of nan business. You return your lumps.

“But I’ll still pitch. Every year, I pitch.”