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Commissioned Pieces – Vivid Green Jade Ring Makeover

26.05.2011


Oval Jade Designer ring

This client wanted to make the old simple yellow gold jade ring from her mom into a more in style ring to wear on the right hand. After the remake, it becomes a classic heirloom piece. It’ll never go wrong to set anything with diamonds!      I also appraised it for her and after examining [...]

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Commissioned Pieces – Blue Sapphire Ring Setting

18.05.2011


Blue sapphires in the ring

It’s a ring makeover. We decided to put blue sapphires into the ring setting to make it a little different from everyone else’s.     Simple, elegant and unique!  

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Prince William’s Engagement Ring

28.04.2011


Royal blue sapphire ring

The oval blue sapphire is approx. 12 carat, surrounded by 14 round brilliant cut diamonds in 18K white gold. It is a very classic and popular design among colored diamonds and colored gemstones.   When you have a beautiful main stone, you don’t need to pick busy and complicated designs for it. Less is more [...]

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Coral’s Value

14.03.2011


Natural gemstones in Vancouver

Coral gemstones hae been regarded as an unique, mysterious gemstone that is not only beautiful, but also precious. Since the quantity of coral gemstones continues to decrease, the desire of possessing coral has never been stronger. In the past 20 years, the price of coral gemstones has multiplied by more than 34 times.     [...]

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World’s Tallest Gemstone Coral

02.03.2011


Coral gemstone

This gemstone coral tree comes from 200 meters below the pacific ocean, north-east of Taiwan. Width: 131cm and Height: 141cm.     As gemstone coral take 10 years to grow 1cm, this gigantic gemstone coral tree becomes the most precious treasures of Taiwan. Taiwan is an unique island with tremendous amounts of natural resources. Given [...]

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Coral at a glance

23.02.2011


Coral jewelry

Coral gemstones have been regarded as an unique mysterious gemstone that is not only beautiful but also precious. Since the quantity of coral gemstones continues to decrese, the desire of possessing coral has never been stronger. In the past 20 years, the price of coral gemstones has multiplied by more than 34 times. Last year [...]

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Beckham’s healing crystals

08.01.2011


healing crystals

  Crystal healing is the use of crystals to bring about healing and positive changes in the mind and body. Crystal healing is an alternative healing technique for strengthening the body and resolving issues and patterns using various forms of natural crystals. The theory is that gemstones carry vibrational rates. By placing these vibrational rates within the [...]

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Commissioned Pieces – Blue Sapphire and Diamond Band

21.10.2010


Custom made diamond & sapphire band

This client loves blue sapphires and has been looking for suitable jeweller to make her diamond and sapphire band for a while. We had a consultation, when I said consultation, it’s more like we had a fabulous time talking about sapphires, diamonds and colored diamonds while drinking coffee together on a weekend morning. After I found out the [...]

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Diamond Body Jewellery!

17.06.2010


Custom made gemstone bra

Bra by Aimer in gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Valued at $2.2m. Is it going to be comfortable to wear? Who cares? I’ll never have a chance to wear one anyways. It’s just so pretty to look at, in addition, this model has a great body to wear this bra. Finally there is a [...]

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Marilyn Monroe’s pearl necklace

08.06.2010


Marilyn Monroe Pearl Necklace

Marilyn Monroe was gifted the Akoya pearl necklace by Joe DiMaggio when they travelled to Japan on their honeymoon. Even years after their divorce, Monroe continued to wear the necklace, claiming it reminded her of “happier times.” The Marilyn Monroe pearl necklacein its original oval, leather, velvet-line box. The pearls were one of the few [...]

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