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...His Emergence collection, launching on April 7, features three rings available in 14 or 18-carat yellow, rose or white gold, or platinum, for bespoke requests....
...Its rhodium-plated white gold tiara with spray motif is set with more than 24 carats of rose-cut, pear-shaped diamonds in a wishbone style....
...In the Middle East, it’s all about rose petal variants, shisha-style. But I’m told “energy drink” flavour is about to go viral....
...“She’s got a ring on her that’s worth $25 million; it’s 48 carats.”...
...I went to Vivian Suter’s exhibition at the Camden Art Centre last year. She paints all her work in the middle of a rainforest in Guatemala, which seems like an inspiring way to live....
...There’s the occasional woman in the mix, such as Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, but, in the main, the portfolio is made up of portrait after portrait of white, middle-aged men....
...In 1878, Tiffany paid $18,000 for one of the largest yellow diamonds ever discovered — a whopping 287.42-carat stone that was acquired in South Africa the previous year....
...When I was growing up in a middle-class neighbourhood in the 1970s, a prominent player lived around the corner in a terraced house smaller than ours....
...dove and qumra a greenish-white colour.”...
...To mark the 20th anniversary of the initiative comes the first necklace of the year: strings of diamonds and 18-carat white or yellow gold joined together in a Y shape....
...But it’s not, as I had imagined, the beauty of the 18-carat fox’s head with delicate little diamond eyes that has her transfixed but the intricately tooled gold and leather case with the maker’s motif in...
...Highlights include an 18-carat white-gold ring with a cushion-shaped purplish-pink diamond which kisses a five-carat pear-shaped diamond on a bed of small brilliant stones (above)....
...Goya Subastas, Montesa 31, 28006 Madrid (+34914-315 311; goyasubastas.com) And the thing I’m eyeing next is a matte gold signet ring with an engraved green stone inspired by a Roman original....
...Joining the existing array of hinged cuffs, pendants and bracelets are two wide-band rings available for men and women in plain 18-carat white, rose and yellow gold or sterling silver, with a diamond-lined...
...Sara Weinstock, another US jeweller, sells knuckle rings with a vintage feel. Pieces include a tiny stretch of 18-carat gold lace embellished with pavé diamonds, at $3,000....
...It’s also an effective marketing strategy: Repossi’s prices range from a single rose-gold heart ring (£450), to a multi-layered Antifer ring in 18-carat rose-gold with diamonds (£10,500)....
...The Beirut-based jeweller, which has been in the trade since the 18th century, collaborated with Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-British architect, on an 18-carat white gold, 11cm-long Silene cuff, encrusted with...
...Company director Michael Wainwright also points to Boodles’ first ever own-label watch, the Blossom, which features 403 diamonds on white mother-of-pearl and 18-carat rose gold, and took Swiss craftsmen...
...Lots include this 18-carat gold, enamel, cultured pearl and rose diamond brooch by Elizabeth Gage, worn by the actress here to a charity ball in 1990, and with an estimated value of between $5,000 and $7,000...
...The streets are not paved with gold in this grittily powerful novel....
...Reminiscent of a Japanese crane, the 18-carat white-gold creation can be worn in multiple ways....
...Pieces feature butterflies and flowers, even parts of the skeleton, and use white and black, 1mm diameter diamonds, sapphires and semi-precious stones in different colours set in mostly 18 carat gold or...
...American leadership, particularly in the Middle East....
...Price points From $1,400 for a Signature Diamonds square band ring in rose gold, to $40,000, with a few very high-end pieces such as a 40-carat diamond link necklace in white gold and diamond pavé (total...
...Harry Winston ventures out from the white world of diamonds and explores interesting coloured stones in the Royal Gardens collection....
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