Archive for November, 2009

Cold Noodles from neutral Jewelry

Twenty years ago, more jewelry ads, find that most of the brand positioning has changed, the former more than the “flattering”, but now most of them “pleasure and has” as a starting point. Modern women are increasingly independent, jewelry styles have also begun to go uninhibited line of fall and winter season, tide, but also not difficult to find bands in Taiwan.

Cool cool material

Autumn and winter clothing styles have always indulge in cool colors, jewelry is also closely follow the trend in black, white, silver, gray and other colors become a key indicator. Even CHANEL’s most lovely camellia, but also was transformed into a sparkling ice-cold light signs, flashing in the temple on top. The combined effect of indifferent between the colors is also very obvious, so you see a combination of a more calm.

Cold material is part of silver, diamonds, horns and other materials. Do not think that there is no addition to diamonds, precious materials, in addition, even Hermes have taken the initiative to grow with the horns and silver necklaces, allowed to show light, facial gesture, issued when Didi De friction sound, in the irregular size of the beads of the Inter, but also the size of the petals randomly interspersed irregularly shaped silver pendants, resulting in colors and materials on the jump and contrast. While another used a rose gold and brown diamond bracelet, it appears that many of the atmosphere. The most attractive addition to unusually exaggerated size, the mysterious knitting process to bring a very strong dynamic, stealth hasp, there is one aspect of the diamond-studded brown.

Kourtney Kardashian’s Jewelry Stolen

Reality star, Kourtney Kardashian, is the latest celebrity victim of a home break-in. Find out how much in jewelry is missing – and how much her diamonds really mean to her.

Jewelry thieves are running amok in Hollywood these days, as reality star Kourtney Kardashian joins the ranks of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Audrina Patridge and Hayden Panettiere to suffer from a home break-in.

According to reports, thieves broke into Kardasian’s gated southern California home this weekend while and she was out to dinner with boyfriend, Scott Disick.

Over $100,000 worth of jewelry was taken, including her $30,000 Cartier watch, Disick’s Rolex and various diamond and vintage pieces (some her late father, Robert Kardashian, left her after his death).

But don’t feel too sorry for this diva. Kourtney just returned from a fun-filled trip to Las Vegas to celebrate her sister, Kim’s, birthday and is happily expecting her first child – a son – with Kisick later this year.

Getting robbed, though,is a traumatic experience for anyone. Make sure to protect your jewelry investments by reading up on all the latest jewelry insurance and appraisal information right here on Jewelry.com.

$8 Million Dollar Pink Diamond on The Auction Block!

On the block during upcoming sales in Hong Kong is a rare pink diamond the auction house estimates could fetch up to $8 million.

“Vivid Pink,” as it’s called, is a five-carat stone flanked by two white diamonds and set in a ring by elite jeweler Graff. It hails from a private collection.

The glamorous rock toured Singapore, Bangkok, Geneva and Taipei before returning to Hong Kong, where it will be auctioned off Dec. 1 at the Convention and Exhibition Center alongside 250 other gemstones and pieces of jewelry from the likes of Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels. Altogether, the jewelry sale’s lots are estimated to be worth more than $33 million.

The brilliant pink stone earned top marks from the Gemological Institute of America, which rates diamonds. The gem is unique because of its particular hue–a rich bubblegum rather than a more common lighter rose. It is also valuable because of its saturation, the depth the color extends into the stone.

“Stones like this–they’re not just jewelry, they’re artwork,” says Alan Bronstein, a New York-based trader and dealer of rare colored diamonds. “The simplest possible mounting is the best way to make that diamond shine. You don’t want to embellish it with motifs and designs.”

Colored diamonds mined naturally are often pockmarked with flecks of other hues, like purple, orange or gray. But this one is blemish-free, boasting an even tone throughout. Only one in 100,000 diamonds is as special.

Jewellery meets high fashion at Paris haute couture

For the aboriginal time in the added than 150-year history of Paris haute couture, accomplished jewellery will accommodated admirable clothes to actualize a new ‘luxury week’ for the spring/summer 2010 season.

In January, the haute couture houses will clearly acceptable the haute joaillerie makers assimilate the couture calendar, chain two of the city’s a lot of acclaimed and big-ticket hand-crafts.

The arch Paris couture houses, such as Chanel,Christian Dior, Givenchy , and Jean Paul Gaultier, calm with Giorgio Armani Privé,Valentino and Elie Saab, will be abutting by some of the a lot of acclaimed jewellery houses in the world, including Boucheron, Cartier, Chanel Joaillerie, Chaumet, Christian Dior Joaillerie, Mellerio dits Meller and Van Cleef & Arpels.

The accessible Paris haute couture anniversary begins on January 24th and will accomplishment on January 28th, the day that will be committed to the ability of accomplished jewellery.

‘Haute couture’ is the French byword for ‘high fashion’ and represents the accomplished accessible akin of creating one-off designs, accurately fabricated to the client’s measurements. The industry is about accustomed as accepting amorphous in the 1850s with an Englishman, Charles Frederick Worth, originally from Lincolnshire, who is admired as ‘the ancestor of haute couture’. Worth aboriginal formed in London and confused to Paris in 1845. His success was assured if Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III, became a client.

Although the amount of ‘maisons’ who abide on the twice-yearly (January and July) couture calendar, has alone decidedly back the bang years of the aboriginal bisected of the twentieth century, the industry charcoal an important ‘flagship’ for affluence brands. Wealthy Russian and Middle Eastern clients, calm with the affluent wives and daughters of the arising powerhouses in China and added Asian countries accept become an important antecedent of assets for the houses which remain.

Costs for a archetypal clothing or dress, fabricated absolutely to the customer’s proportions, exquisitely-lined and hand-finished, and with several fittings, can alpha from about £10,000.

Evening dresses and marriage gowns, in the world’s a lot of big-ticket fabrics, generally elaborately-embellished with adornment and beading, which can yield amid 800 and 1,000 hours of assiduous handwork, by a specialist house, such as Lesage, which was founded in 1922, can calmly ability £100,000.

Piaget Christmas Jewelry

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Jeweler lets customers see live diamond inscribing

Tustin, Calif.–The Jewelry Exchange retail chain will be offering its diamond customers the opportunity to choose their own inscriptions and then sit back and watch a computer screen as those words get inscribed on their newly purchased diamond at the company’s factory.

Customers will first approve the image of the transcription on screen and then can wait and watch the laser-inscribing process, which takes just minutes, The Jewelry Exchangesaid in a press release issued on Wednesday, announcing its acquisition of the newest PhotoScribe Cold Laser System for its state-of-the-art factory.

Through the inscription process, which the retailer says is 100 percent safe for laser-inscribing diamonds, customers can either have a diamond engraved with a special message of their own choosing or with a security code that would include the diamond certification number.

The inscription is done by using a tiny, precise laser beam that transforms a thin layer–just a few atoms thick–of the sparkling diamond crystal itself to opaque carbon crystal or graphite.

The cold-laser energy fully absorbs into the diamond in a process that the company describes as being superior to the hot-laser technology on the market, and which also does not require any pre-laser or post-laser processing, such as painting the diamond, which can produce inconsistent engraving.

The diamond can be inscribed all around the girdle using the special laser process, the company said. The laser inscription does not change the clarity or color grade of a diamond as it is microscopic and invisible to the unaided eye, viewable only under 10-times magnification, which requires a jeweler’s loupe or other magnifier.

The inscription process is considered permanent since it can only be removed by a professional diamond cutter. Removing the inscription would not change the weight or appearance of the diamond, the company says.

The Jewelry Exchange is a division of Goldenwest Diamond Corp. and has been operating for more than 32 years in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Fla., Tustin, Calif., and Washington D.C., where it does business as The Jewelry Exchange. The company operates as The Jewelry Factory in Cleveland, Detroit and New York. In Houston, the company operates as The Jewelry Source.

Van Cleef & Arpels —Writing a New Chapter of Love

France’s top jewelry brand Van Cleef & Arpels bearing on the warm, elegant and a new fantasy masterpiece, as if the genial autumn sunlight embraces you gently. New series “Effeuillage” recalls that the French pulled out the small piece of the love petals love game. Effeuillage, rings and earrings, considering classic lucky four-leaf clover as design blueprint, the four Sweet Alhambra heart-shaped pattern turned into Every petal, and a diamond designer jewelrysurrounded by fine Italian which reflects the intimate love of the innocent steps shadows.

The fourth gold heart-shaped petals with small buckle hinges on the main ring above the seat in order to highlight the polished gold inlay casting made. Even you can whisper your love etched in the floor above will closely link with the a heart into a twist on the fingers of the Jie Yuhua. The swaying posture also radiate light and beauty of the wearer.

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt design for Asprey

London–Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are famous for juggling their film schedules with philanthropic efforts that take them around the globe, all while playing parents to six kids, but the Hollywood power couple has lately gotten even busier: They’ve dipped into jewelry design.

British jewelry brand Asprey recently announced the launch of the “Protector Collection,” featuring limited-edition fine jewels and silver objects designed in collaboration with Jolie and Pitt.

Each piece in the collection features a snake motif, one that Asprey said Jolie chose for its symbolism as an iconic guardian, particularly over family protection and fertility.

According to Asprey, during Jolie’s first pregnancy, she was given a snake ring, intended to guard her and her unborn child. The symbol has become a family guardian to the Jolie-Pitts, and in the Protector Collection, it appears in everything from fine jeweled bracelets to rings, earrings and pendants available for both children and adults.

The motif can also be found in three sterling silver objects: a tooth box featuring an animated snake that stands above the circular box; an eggcup replete with a coiled snake wrapped around the cup’s base; and a spoon whose handle takes serpentine form.

Each piece in the collection was handcrafted at Asprey’s London flagship store, and the designs are available now.

Given that this is a Jolie-Pitt venture, the collection also has a philanthropic bent. All net proceeds will be donated to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, a nonprofit organization that seeks out donors and identifies new and innovative projects to provide education for children affected by conflict, violence, war or natural disaster.

To see more of the designs, jump to our 10X blog.

The Cuff Watch by Buccellati

Courtesy of: Buccellati.com

Designer Gianmaria Buccellati has created another brilliant piece of jewelry – the Cuff “watch-jewel”.

The Cuff “watch-jewel” is a contemporary version of the ancient “slave’s style” bracelet. Based on Roman history, the style is a symbol of woman’s devotion to man and vice versa.

The cuff bracelet has since denoted the endless and unbreakable bond of love between man and woman.

The bracelet by Buccellati, is made of either 18K yellow or white gold. The style can be produced with four various floral designs, all set with brilliant-cut diamonds. The watch has precision Swiss quartz movement and utilizes a push-button rather than the usual crown.

The unique Gianmaria Buccellati design pays tribute to Sandro Botticelli, an artist that he’s always admired.

The Guggenheim Collection by Harry Winston

Architectural icons are often tricky to bring home or collect. We’re left to gaze at photographs, prints, or coffee-table books for regular viewing (if we’re lucky, our windows might provide optimal and frequent viewing opportunities). The House of Harry Winston tapped into this common and unfortunate plight and released a new collection of diamond jewelry and timepieces inspired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim. Available for purchase at Harry Winston salons worldwide and at www.Guggenheim.org, fans of the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building can now wear the spiraling New York museum via pendant, ring, cufflink, or chronograph. It’s a perfect gift for design and architectural aficionados this holiday season or for any occasion. And as an added incentive (as if you need one), a portion of the profits will benefit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s educational programming.

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