11.06.2010
Barbie’s creators, Mattel, have commissioned Stefano Canturi, to create the world’s most expensive Barbie doll. The key piece of Barbie by Canturi is the necklace, it contains a 1.00 carat pink diamond with a square emerald cut that is framed by 3.00 carats of white diamonds, priced at $600,000. The pink diamond is a registered tendered [...]
02.06.2010
Carrie Bradshaw got engaged with a shoe rather than a diamond ring in Sex and the City movie. In Sex and the City 2, Big presents her with a 5ct black diamond ring surrounded by 80 round natural colorless pave diamonds, explaining “because you are not like anyone else.” It’s funny, I was just talking about [...]
19.05.2010
This picture and article is posted by Natural colored diamond association. I have a natural light pinkish purple in my collection and know the value and how rare they are, I thought I’ll share this article! One of the rarest of colors in natural color diamonds. …Often confused with a secondary color violet, purple [...]
03.05.2010
Diamonds are traditionally valued for their high degree of transparency and clarity, absence of color, scintillation and high brilliance. Collectors have always been more interested in black diamonds than consumers. However, in the past 10 to 15 years, black diamonds have come to represent a fashion statement and getting more and more popular. In fact, [...]
14.04.2010
LOVE IT!!!!!! Elegant tiara pavè set with pink diamonds weighing approx. 4.15cts in 18K rose gold. Est sell price $70,000 to $90,000 ($9,018 USD to $11,600 USD) and sold at $125,000 HKD (approx. $16,105 USD) at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. Tiaras were historically worn by women for special events such as pageants, proms, and weddings. Tiaras from [...]
09.04.2010
A rare, fancy vivid, internally flawless blue 5.16 carat diamond has been sold for $6.4m (£4.2m) at an auction in Hong Kong. The gemstone, originally from the De Beers Millennium Collection, is one of 12 in a collection the diamond company says took decades to put together.
07.04.2010
The natural color of the diamond is created under extreme conditions and deserves a special setting. I’ve talked about how rare pink diamonds are over and over and made a few pieces for clients myself. I am happy to see it’s getting more and more popular! I came across this new collection the other day [...]
29.03.2010
Impressive. I have seen a few yellow diamond necklaces in various jewellery conferences but they were all consisted with fancy or fancy intense yellow diamonds. I have personally tried on one and it was H-E-A-V-Y. I wish I had taken a picture. Featured in Sotheby’s April auction, this fancy vivid yellow diamond necklace has 42 GIA-certified, fancy vivid yellow diamonds weighing a [...]
04.02.2010
The famed Hope Diamond and the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond, were not cut from the same stone, according to a group of scientists led by Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. The two diamonds were examined under a variety of microscopes and lights at the Smithsonian to try to settle some centuries-old [...]
24.01.2010
We all know the importance of an engagement ring. Engagement ring can not be called a materialistic way of displaying one’s love. It has a lot of emotions attached with it. Why do people mostly prefer a diamond engagement ring? Diamond is the hardest substance on earth, represents the unbreakable love of the couple. An engagement ring is not just a [...]
