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...So you could get a very respectable diamond ring as an engagement ring and it will, you know, probably be a fraction of what you would pay....
...Diamond sales have relied on suitors putting a ring on it since De Beers’ postwar ad campaign “Diamonds are Forever”....
...Tepid US and Chinese demand for diamond jewellery hasn’t helped. But most ring fingers point at the increasing popularity of cheaper laboratory grown diamonds (LGD)....
...Like Chopard’s, Gucci’s new Allegoria high-jewellery collection features a necklace centred on a 10-carat hexagonal emerald, and theatrical earrings are set with a fan-shaped emerald fringed with diamonds...
...Even those tying the knot are steering clear of diamonds. Bobo Liang is one of many Chinese women who plan to marry but intend to forgo a diamond engagement ring amid widespread economic gloom....
...Lab-grown diamonds are particularly cutting into demand for one or two carat solitaire stones popular in the US for engagement rings....
...Or in Graff’s immense 118.17-carat Sri Lanka sapphire, at the centre of a new diamond cuff bracelet....
...Sales of diamond rings in the US market have gradually dropped from 86 per cent of ring sales in 2020 to 82 per cent in 2023, said Edahn Golan, managing partner of Tenoris, a diamond analytics company, based...
...Mejuri is also positioning itself as a rival to traditional luxury names, with the expansion of its fine and 14-carat gold offering, and designs including a diamond tennis bracelet (from £2,400) and the...
...De Beers has launched its own lab-grown diamond range under the brand Lightbox but last month reversed a shortlived decision to sell fabricated diamond engagement rings....
...sapphire and diamond ring....
...A year before that, UK jeweller Graff released a range of fragrances inspired by the 302-carat Lesedi La Rona diamond, including several composed by Epinette....
...When Jenny King-Modlin got engaged two years ago, her partner slipped a 1.3-carat diamond ring on to her finger to signify his love for her....
...rings set with the finest vintage-cut diamonds....
...There are also new diamond-set versions of the Daytona with mother-of-pearl dials in both panda and reverse panda configurations....
...Additional reporting by Suzi Ring in London...
...This chimes with the current appetite for unusual, expressive stones in engagement rings (including emerald- and square-emerald cuts, a feature of many original art deco pieces, which appear as elongated...
...Upon completion, the 302.37-carat Graff Lesedi La Rona became the largest square-emerald-cut diamond in existence; it also furnished 66 satellite diamonds, ranging in size from less than one carat to more...
..., $120 for set of two...
...The new store, sitting next to Cartier and Tiffany, is set over two floors, encompassing a retail space, a library and an engagement ring “bar”, and mimics the eclecticism McCormack has come to be known...
...in the world — indicate the scale of ambition that the world’s biggest luxury group has for the American jeweller, which is best known to many for silver jewellery and traditional engagement rings....
...“It’s no longer a matter of choosing one over the other but of combining the two,” he argues. “Finally, it comes down to the craftsmanship and perceived value of luxury goods....
...Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest diamond jewellery retailer, cut its full-year guidance as inflation coupled with a pandemic drop in dating activity to weaken demand for engagement rings....
...could double as both engagement and wedding rings....
...Made in Holloway, north London, it ranges from a £330 key ring-inspired ring to a signature £22,750 ring reminiscent of an old-fashioned diving helmet with bars criss-crossing a 6.6-carat ruby cabochon....
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