[ A faint, wry smile. ]

With alchemy I can have something ready within an hour or so - I do still need to refine this stone before I can use it, you see, but the setting and other parts are drawn from a template I have already made and is therefore cheaper. If instead I were to create the piece by hand, then I could customise it to a far greater degree. This would, however, take me the span of a few days and be more costly.