Piaget Limelight Paradise
Summer is coming! It’s high time to check your summer wardrobe and replenish it with new bright and eye-catching accessories as for example rings and necklaces from the new Piaget collection — Limelight Paradise.
Summer is the season of fruit. And Piaget suggests adding to fresh fruit a little bit of shining jewellery ones. The jewellery pieces from the new Piaget collection remind of delicious summer cocktails and look conformably. Even the names of rings and necklaces are borrowed from famous cocktails.
So take a sip of a delicious pink tourmaline Sex on the Beach cocktail, savour the sculpted citrine of a Caipirinha or inhale the scent of the frangipani flower gracing a Blue Hawaiian. By associating world-famous cocktails with a single gemstone in unexpected and mouth-watering compositions, Piaget teases the senses and offers a toast to nocturnal pleasures with its Limelight Paradise collection.
The jewellery from Piaget Limelight Paradise collection sparkles with diamonds, tourmalines, citrines, tsavorites and peridots and looks like a fairy-tale treasure of some Caribbean island.
18-carat white gold ring set with 214 brilliant-cut diamonds, 1 round-cut green tourmaline and 1 citrine
18-carat white gold ring set with 214 brilliant-cut diamonds, 1 round-cut pink tourmaline and 1 peridot
18-carat yellow gold pineapple-shaped charm set with 17 brilliant-cut diamonds, 17 brilliant-cut brown diamonds, 1 citrine, 115 tsavorite
New “Diamond Record”
$ 24,300,000. This is a new record sum which has ever been paid for a single diamond. The new world record was set during the Christie’s jewellery auction in London.
“The record-holder” is the legendary rare dark blue diamond Wittelsbach of an unusual oval 50-faceted cut. The Wittelsbach weighs 35.56 metric carats and measures 24.40 mm in diameter and 8.29 mm in depth. It is pure apart from a few surface scratches that were probably caused during removal from its setting. The diamond has been cut with 82 facets arranged in an unusual pattern - the star facets on the crown are vertically split and the pavilion has sixteen needle-like facets, arranged in pairs, pointing outward from the culet facet.
The first record of the Wittelsbach dates from the latter part of the seventeenth century. The king of Spain Philippe IV (1605 — 1665) included the gem into the dowry of his daughter infanta Margareta Teresa (1651 — 1673) when she was marrying the Emperor Leopold I of Austria in 1664. Then the diamond for a long period of time belonged to the treasury of Austrian and Bavarian monarchs.
Previously the diamond was sold in 1964 to a private collector for $180,000. Now the Wittelsbach has been bought by the head of the jewellery house of Graff — Lawrence Graff.
Talk To Me, Harry Winston!
The founder of the famous jewellery and watchmaking house, the “King of diamonds”, Harry Winston was in love with the beauty and mysterious sparkle of diamonds. His passion to these marvelous gemstones inspired him to create real masterpieces of jewellery.
And now it inspired designers from Harry Winston to create a new jewellery watch — “Talk To Me, Harry Winston”. It should be noted that the idea to create such a watch was born on the basis of an old story which tells that Mr. Winston always kept a special engraved disc with 24 gems in his pocket. The inscription engraved on the disc was: “good luck, happiness, inspiration”. Today 290 sparkling diamonds decorate an elegant case of the “Talk To Me, Harry Winston”. The case of the watch is made of white gold and like the disc from the story is equipped with a rotary disc engraved with “Talk to Me, Harry Winston.” and detailed with 24 delicate diamonds.
The watch houses a quartz movement and provides the following functions: hours and minutes. The mother-of-pearl dial is protected with sapphire crystal. Water resistance is 30 meters.
The watch is coupled with an elegant pearl-grey satin strap with a white gold clasp decorated with 29 diamonds. Articulated and elegant, the sophisticated oval-shaped case is slightly contoured to comfortably fit a woman’s wrist.
Unfading Time
Owing to the unsurpassed mastery and unique imagination of jewellers and watchmakers from Jaeger-LeCoultre the connoisseurs of Haute Horlogerie and Jewellery and also all those who appreciate fine and elegant jewellery can admire La Rose — a masterpiece watch striking with its likeness to the beautiful fragrant original.
Jaeger-LeCoultre watchmakers and gem-setters spent more than 600 hours creating this breathtaking timepiece decorated with over 3000 precious stones sparkling like the dew drops.
In total La Rose watch by Jaeger-LeCoultre is decorated with 1480 pink sapphires (approx. 42.30 carats), 130 rubies (approx. 1.20 carats), 120 diamonds (approx.1.50 carats), 370 tsavorites (the garnet family stones, approx. 30 carats) used for its stems.
Equipped with a mechanical manually-wound movement, Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 846, La Rose is also an exceptional horological creation worthy to bear the Jaeger-LeCoultre signature. It is housed in a rhodium-plated white gold case and its winding-crown is cleverly concealed beneath the dial.
Tiffany Forever
Elegant jewellery or tableware, functional watches or yacht-club cup – Tiffany long ago stopped to be just a brand name. Today Tiffany is the whole empire where the rulers are elegance, refined taste, luxury and flawless style. And each Tiffany item packed in the legendary blue box reflects the spirit of luxurious elegance so characteristic of this brand.
Tiffany & Co. conquered the world with ease and elegance. Throughout the years of its existence the company has been loyal to its own style in everything. The company was established in 1837 when Charles Tiffany opened a small boutique of fashion goods and luxury items. It took less than 50 years for the small shop to turn into the real empire. Tiffany has been and still remains one of the favorites among the members of European Royal families, the richest people of the world and Hollywood divas.
Jewellery by Tiffany & Co. is not mere items of jewellery art. They represent a unique system of symbols which does not need any interpretation or comments. Every woman in the world dreams of a little blue box tied up with a silk ribbon as only this little box may contain the most-wanted piece of elegant and refined jewellery.