Alain Sauser Elements Collection of Jewellery Timepieces for Ladies
The jeweller and watchmaker Alain Sauser presents an elegant luxury collection of jewellery timepieces for ladies — Elements. The collection consists of high quality women’s watches bearing the names of basic elements of nature - Water, Earth, Air and Fire.
The watches from the Elements collection feature characteristic Alain Sauser cases adorned with precious stones. The watches aiming at representing natural elements look really attractive and natural. For example, the Water watch really looks like it should be in water, and you can see the cracked dirt in the Earth model.
Each watch comes in a 38-mm solid 18k white gold case decorated with applied jewels including 685 diamonds, and either sapphires, rubies and yellow sapphires, or brown and black diamonds. The jewels are each set by hand. The elegant appearance of the Elements watches is completed with dauphine hands and original straps. The dial sare protected with sapphire crystal. The back case of each watch is secured with gold screws. Water resistance is 30 meters.
Each watch comes in a luxury wooden box together with a leather travel pouch, a leather warranty card holder and a removable casket.
Luxurious Cartier Panda Watch
The luxurious and sparkling with the finest diamonds but at the same time touching and amusing watch with Panda was presented by Cartier within its Le Cirque Animalier collection. The collection of timepieces with animal motifs was inspired by beauty of the wild nature.
A gentle and familiar panda arrives on the scene in a plump collection of black sapphires and diamonds. The precious miniature animal holds a disc of black enamel in its paws, embossed with bamboo stalks and eucalyptus leaves in white enamel to reflect the delicate landscape of China. The watch is housed by an 18k rhodium-plated white gold case set with round diamonds. It is decorated with the finest diamonds. Besides, to create an image of a panda on the dial the watchmakers used black sapphires and emeralds with some details outlined in black enamel.
The Cartier Panda watch is accompanied with an elegant dark grey canvas strap with an ardillon 18k white gold buckle set with round diamonds.
The watch was produced in a limited edition of 50 individually-numbered timepieces. Sparkling with diamonds and amusing with the touching image of a panda bear the Cartier watch makes one of the most beautiful jewellery timepieces in the world.
Red Dot Award for Meister
At the annual designer contest Red Dot Design Awards 2009 the prestigious prize for jewellery products was given to the jeweller Meister for its Girello rotating ring and pendant. Made of polished white and decorated with the finest diamonds the ring and pendant make a dazzling jewellery accessory for a lady who appreciates beauty and elegance.
The Meister Girello rotating ring is based on a fascinating principle: the outer, diamond-set ring is set in motion by lightly tapping it, allowing the diamonds to sparkle with a constantly changing appearance.
The Meister rotating ring and pendant reflect the refinement the variety of the innovative and high-quality from the Meister jewellery collection manufactured from the specialists of their subject.
It is not the first Red Dot Award for the jeweller. In 2000 Meister was awarded the Red Dot for bracelet with magnetic strap for men. Besides Meister has become the winner of many design awards for its exceptional jewellery for men and women.
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.