To apply to not only a gold, a silver but also a platinum without losing its realism and to be executed in no public pollution in a method for engraving a graphic form or the like on a ring by transferring a photographic graphic form.

The method for engraving the graphic form or the like on the ring comprises the steps of binary halftone gradating the photographic graphic form input by a black and white contrast by graphically processing by a computer, forming a black and white positive image film 10 based on the binary halftone gradated graphic form, photosensitively fixing a photosensitive resist 15 coating the surface of the ring 1 made of a noble metal material through the film 10 at a white substrate part, and sandblasting the residual part of the fixed resist graphic form.