Happy Stories From our customers

We’re experimenting with Mocha gold. It has a nice brown tint and we think it will look nice with a champagne color diamond, an example to come soon. Let us know what you think.

Margie!

Oh My goodness!! Yess, Thank you so, so very much!!!! The Ring is beyond anything I’ve ever thought or dreamed of! Beautifully breathtaking, as symbolizing our love! I am blown away by how stunning it is! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this a reality and working with Nic on our ring, with your team at Schubach! You guys are amazing!

Thank you beyond words! A million times over!

Sincerely,
Victoria & Nic

Our new Scroll earrings in rose gold

So you’re a Queen, right? And you have to ball to attend. Your personal dresser peeks her head past the golden archways of your cavernous bedroom and whispers, “My lady, what will it be tonight? Your tiara or your diadem?” You breath becomes shallow (but this could be because of your overly tightened corset). “Um…” you respond. “You pick.”

It’s an awkward moment. One you could have avoided. If you had only known the difference between a tiara and a diadem. If  you had checked our blog (or the Tiaras and Trianon website), you could have known the following:

So in the end, as always, it comes down to etymology. In the beginning there were only diadems.

diadem: from the Greek diadein meaning “to bind around” and thus begins the journey from ancient verb to divine headress!

Long story short, all other terms for royal headgear, tiara, coronet, chaplet, the whole shmear, are simply subcategories or more specific descriptions of a diadem.

So there you go! You fire your dresser for not knowing better (you choose not to behead her because that’s a little gauche) and wear your favorite diadem in pride to the ball that evening, looking resplendent and utterly royal.

Elizabeth wearing the Coronation Earrings and matching necklace at the opening of the New Zealand parliament in 1963. She also wore the Kokoshnik Tiara.

Margie,

Would you be able to give me some guidance on where to go from here since I can’t seem to narrow down my search? I have tried to take a few days away from viewing rings and the problem is every ring I have looked at that is made by Schubach is ridiculously gorgeous! I can’t decide!

I love hitting second hand stores and thrift shops for costume jewelry. And every once in a while, I think to self, “Wow. This looks expensive. I bet its a score.” Well, unfortunately, much of the time I’m wrong.

So I found this tutorial to help me identify the good from the bad (and the just plain worthless).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elDjkidJUO0

“The Farnese Blue,” a 6.16-carat pear shaped fancy dark gray-blue diamond.

Most gems of this magnitude have a storied history. And the stunning 6-carat Farnese Blue Diamond is no exception.

Passed on to generations of Spanish royalty, the Blue Diamond makes it way to the auction block soon. “The Farnese Blue” will be offered at the Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels sale at Sotheby’s Geneva on May 15 where it’s expected to sell for between $3.7 million and $5.3 million.

According to the National Jeweler:

It was uncovered in the Golconda mines of India, which also produced the famous Hope and Wittelsbach diamonds.

The stone was given to Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain (1692-1766) and descendant of Pope Paul III, following her wedding to King Philip V of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV, King of France.

The wedding was celebrated in Parma, Italy in 1714, after the War of the Spanish Succession, which had depleted the country’s finances. To be able to offer a suitable dowry for the new queen, the Spanish government sent word to its colonies, demanding they send wedding presents to Madrid.

[Read more about its lengthy and fascinating history.]

 

Margie,

Just wanted to thank you again for making this such an amazing ring purchase experience.

A.M.