Happy Stories From our customers

Hi Margie,

So I finally gave her the ring on Thanksgiving. She was ecstatic! I’ll attach a photo, I did it at her hometown church and she absolutely LOVES the ring… it’s amazing how she says she never imagined a brilliant round cut, but she boasts about how this ring is PERFECT for her and how thrilled she is to wear it everyday.

On top of all that, I have received so many compliments on how great of a job I did selecting the ring, and I owe much of my thanks to you! I truly appreciate your help, and I will definitely be a return customer!

Thank you for everything!
Respectfully,
J

We love drop earrings and offer beautiful ones of our own. Our custom design drop earrings are often distantly inspired by pieces that simply take our breath away, like the Miroir de l’Amour (Mirror of Love), a pair of pear-shaped D color, flawless type IIa diamond earrings.

Created by Boehmer et Bassenge, these gorgeous earrings sold for nearly $17.7 million at Christie’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale in November, making them the world’s largest perfect pear-shaped diamond drops ever to be offered at auction.

Remember: we can recreate drop earrings that give you that auction-quality feel for a fraction of the price (because let’s face it, who has 17 mill just hanging around, right?)

Source: Forbes

Throughout 2016, we shared a copious amount of juicy auction information in our blog: celebrity jewelry, fancy colored and rare gems and of course, the exorbitant price-tags and bidding wars that leave us all a little breathless.

Yet auctions have their ups and downs like any other business and 2016 was no different. Records were set (pink and blue diamonds continued to pull in the highest bids) while other gems failed to generate the expected interest (like Shirley Temple Blue, a 9.54-carat fancy deep blue, owned by the child actress with an estimate of $25 – $35 million).

But blue gems still pulled their weight (sorry Shirley), namely The Oppenheimer Blue which pulled in top dollar for 2016. Looking at it, we can only sigh and see why.

The Oppenheimer Blue, a 14.62-carat fancy vivid blue rectangular-cat diamond snatched a world record for any jewel sold at auction (more than $58 million!) at Christie’s in May.

Source: Forbes

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2.5mm side stones, 4ct center

Set with a 3ct OEC center stone

The knife edge design in engagement ring bands is sleek, sophisticated and can be defined this way:

A knife edge band is created with edges that slope and join in the middle to form a minor point on the surface of the ring, giving the ring an angled appearance. It’s often the go-to choice for those who really want to accentuate the gem in their ring.

In the video above, you can see the daring lines of the band and how it brings the gem to the forefront.

If you’re in search of the perfect knife-edge solitaire to show off your killer gem, contact us and we’ll make your jewelry dream a reality!

When you think of a millennial, you probably don’t think in terms of diamond buyers. Their lives are too transient, too tech-based…right? Well perhaps its for those reasons that diamond sales tend to be on the slow and steady climb with this demographic.

According to Bloomberg:

So-called millennials now account for 68 percent of diamond jewelry sales by value in the world’s most-populous country — worth $6.76 billion last year, according to research by De Beers SA, the world’s biggest diamond producer.

Millennial women — defined by De Beers as those aged from 18 to 34 — spent about $26 billion on diamond jewelry in 2015 in the world’s four main markets, acquiring more than any other generation.

But here’s the catch: this isn’t about ever-lasting love but status and practicality:

For Chinese millennials, diamonds are more of a fashionable mark of achievement instead of a symbol of everlasting love, said Joan Xu, Shanghai-based associate planning director at J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency.

According to one unmarried grad student:

“We don’t have to passively wait to be gifted a diamond by a man,” the unmarried college graduate said. “Diamond jewelry is a natural way to express ourselves. It’s a far better investment than most fashion items as it won’t only gain value, but can also be passed down through the generations.”

 

Another great talent leaves us in 2016. Pop great George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) passed away peacefully in his home on Christmas Day in Goring, England at 53 years old.

“It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period,” read a statement sent to USA TODAY by Michael’s London-based publicist, Connie Filippello. “The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage.”

As the world grieves, we’d like to take a moment to review Michael’s words of wisdom over the years.

Because of my brushes with the press and the law, and also some of the bereavements I’ve gone through that were made public, I have been forced into revealing a lot more of myself than I ever had before. Therefore, when I step out on stage, people are seeing a much more rounded individual. They’re seeing someone with strengths and weaknesses. And it’s made a huge difference, in terms of the warmth in the shows. It’s absolutely incredible.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star. Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I’m no exception to that.

 

You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.