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A diamond-studded tennis racket
2007-09-25 21:38:00
At the ?Diamond Games? tournament in Antwerp, Belgium, Amelie Mauresmo beat ?hometown? favorite, Kim Clijsters, in her final tournament appearance in her native Belgium. By collecting her third title in five years at this popular stop on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Mauresmo?s trophy cabinet will now sparkle as much as her play in the tournament with the addition of the diamond-studded tennis racket trophy.This unique trophy is probably one of the, if not the, most expensive trophy in all of sports. The 8.8 pound gold racket trophy is studded with 1,702 diamonds. What does one do with such a stunning and valuable trophy? Mauresmo admitted after the match that, despite her previous comments to the contrary, she had been thinking about possibly winning the diamond-studded racket trophy all week. Therefore, the racket will probably find a home among her other tournament trophies? but for how long? Maybe Mauresmo will hold on to the trophy forever or perhaps she will follow in Pete Sa...
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A globe that made of gemstones
2007-09-24 22:25:00
Twenty five exquisite Grade A Gemstone s are used for the hand cut diamond shaped shell oceans and map of the world globes. Each of the 50 states are individual gem stones and hand cut & highly detailed. The meridian lines are crafted in genuine gold and silver ribbon. The globe measures 13 inches diameter, 20 inches overall height and weighs 22 pounds. The gorgeous Globe Oceans are made of "Hand Cut" diamond cut shells seamlessly fit into this one of a kind gemstone globe. Each unique jeweler quality globes are made of unique gemstones indigenous to the countries they represent. The Gem Globes contain no fake gemstones as with some manufacturers. The oceans are made of reconstituted genuine Grade A gemstones with a 15% resin mix, not all resin as in lower quality globes. The Brass Stand has a bright finish. Source: jewelbasket.com
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$100,000 Diamond Stella Egg: The Most Expensive Easter egg
2007-09-22 23:21:00
This image might not have surprised you for the very reason that Easter is at the doorstep and an edible studded with precious gems is expected to be in queue. This is the Diamond Stella Egg, studded with 100 half-carat diamonds, costing $100,000. The Diamond Stella Egg, standing 60cm tall was on display yesterday at the La Maison du Chocolat in London. To quote Neil Duttson, of Duttson Diamonds, the Knightsbridge dealer, who provided gems to the specialty shop at Paris: It?s a gimmick, a PR stunt. And it probably won?t sell unless a rich Russian walks by with his trophy wife and decides he wants it ... Chocolate and diamonds - what more could a woman want? Well, the dealer does not have to worry about it as the stuffing inside the studded chocolate body is the richest that any chocolate lover would die for - peach and apricot chocolate and pralines. However, if it were I at the display I would have studded my platinum bracelet with all the diamonds scraped off from the body of th...
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The Most Expensive Computer Mouse that Worth $24,180
2007-09-21 22:24:00
Most consumers just use the mouse that comes with their desktop and only purchase a mouse when they spill the inevitable hot cup of coffee and ruin the wheel action on their mouse and their mousepad.Others must think of their mouse as a fashion accessory though, because why else would Swiss manufacturer Pat Says Now produce the world?s most expensive computer mouse. The costly peripheral is cast from 18 carat white gold and set with 59 brilliant cut diamonds, and will only set you back £12,400 ($24,180 USD). The most expensive mouse utilizes a modern 3-button wheel optical mouse design, options for USB or PS/2 connections for either PC or Mac, a 800 dpi Resolution, and a 3 year warranty. The expensive mouse comes in two designs, ?Diamond Flower? and the ?Scattered Diamond? layout. You can bling out and personalize the most expensive computer mouse by adding your initials in diamonds, and can choose from yellow, red or white gold with white or black trim.via fabstuff.net
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$1.3 million handset: the world's priciest phone
2007-09-20 22:14:00
Guinness World Records certifies this GoldVish phone as the most expensive in the world--1 million euros, or about $1.3 million. The odd-shaped device is made out of 18-carat white gold and features 1,800 diamonds totaling 120 carats. A Russian businessman bought Le Million for his wife last September at a luxury goods fair in Cannes, France. Don't have a spare million for this made-by-request gadget? Geneva-based GoldVish has plenty of expensive phones in its lineup, including models with gold plating and diamond-studded cases.Last year, Vertu teamed up with French jeweler Boucheron to make the second-most-expensive phone on our list, a limited-edition series of eight $310,000 handsets sporting red, jewel-encrusted snakes. The Signature Cobra includes two diamonds, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies snaking around an 18-carat rose gold case.Like most of the phones on our list, Vertu's devices are fairly standard, "unlocked" handsets compatible with any wireless carrier whose network...
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Most Expensive Diamond Necklace
2007-09-19 22:18:00
Diamonds are not only the girl's best friend. They are also an economical man's worst enemy! It is no secret that diamonds and diamond necklaces as well as diamond jewelry are costly. The ordinary you and I might wish to have a necklace with small, cheap diamonds just to tell others we have diamond necklaces as well, but well, otherwise, the more exotic diamond necklaces with large stones or many stones are simply not for average folks. How about a diamond necklace that has a pear shaped diamond, about 75 carats? The necklace looks simply stunning with the diamond in it, and it costs only about US $5 million. There is also a diamond ring that is quite cheap - about $1 million. A beautiful diamond necklace, by Stefano Canturi, costs only about &750,000 - $1 million.
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Gold and Diamond Statue of Liberty Charm
2007-09-18 23:13:00
This diamond charm is made of 14k yellow gold and diamond Statue of Liberty charm that measures approx 1 3/4''. Each Diamond Charm features a lobster claw clasp for easy attachment to a Necklace or Charm Bracelet.Pink Diamond Headset Love it or hate it, gadgets are the new bling, literally. Creators of the Pama 7008 Pink Diamante Bluetooth Headset decided that pink was not girly enough, but pink with diamonds, now that is how you girlify a gadget. Aside from the "pretty in pink diamonds" setup, the headset comes with a neckstrap, one button action, 5 hours of talk time, weighs 12.7 grams, and enhanced audio. It's only available in the UK and sells for 47.95 EUR.
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$1.795 million for Japanese Diamond Dress
2007-09-17 21:49:00
Chris Aire isn't the only one who makes diamond dresses. Recently a store in Osaka, Japan displayed an evening dress decorated with 2,000 diamonds. The dress is blue silk festooned with 300 carats of diamonds and sells for approximately 200 million yen (around $1.795 million).Blingmaster Chris Aire Plans Second Jewelry ShowBlingmaster Chris Aire is planning to host his second annual jewelry fashion show at New York's Fashion Week. Last year he turned heads by draping Naomi Campbell in a red gold halter. Chris Aire is the only show designed to just display jewelry and his pieces draw heavily on the use of his trademark red gold. This year's headturners will include a short dress made of red gold with platinum and diamonds and a full-length red gold and diamond dress. There will also be a red gold hat of more than 10,000 individual links. Aire will also debut his new colored stones collection which also uses red gold. There will also be a surprise musical guest who will perform usi...
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Modest diamond found in Finland
2007-09-13 22:06:00
The idea of diamond discoveries in Finland might seem far-fetched. However, since the early 1980s, kimberlite rocks have been discovered in Finland. These rocks contain the sparkling and much sought-after gem.?Kimberlites are ancient, usually small and very rare volcanic rocks, which millions of years ago erupted to the surface from a depth of 200 to 300 kilometres,? says Marjaleena Lehtonen, M.Sc.In her doctoral dissertation in the field of geology, she studies the diamond potential of Finnish rock, while simultaneously searching for new ways of locating diamond deposits.So far, discoveries in Finland include about two dozen kimberlite deposits, each measuring a few hectares. According to Lehtonen, their diamond content is modest compared with the deposits in the world?s leading diamond-producing countries, such as Canada and South Africa.However, the quality of diamonds discovered in Finland meets the requirements for jewellery, and Lehtonen says there is a possibility of discover...
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Blood Diamonds are still a reality
2007-09-10 21:34:00
Conflict or blood diamonds fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses. They have been responsible for funding recent conflicts in Africa which resulted in the death and displacement of millions of people. During these conflicts, profits from the illegal trade in diamonds, worth billions of dollars, were used by warlords and rebels to buy arms.An estimated 3.7 million people have died in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, and Sierra Leone in conflicts fuelled by diamonds.While the wars in Angola and Sierra Leone are now over and fighting in the DRC has decreased, the problem of conflict diamonds hasn't gone away.Despite the fact that an international diamond certification scheme called the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was launched in 2003, conflict diamonds from Côte d'Ivoire are finding their way through Ghana into the legitimate diamond market. As the brutal conflict in Sierra Leone has shown, even a small amount of conflict diamonds can wre...
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4 Billion years Diamond : The World's oldest diamond
2007-09-07 22:02:00
Scientists have discovered what they believe are the world's oldest diamonds beneath the Australian outback in a surprise find that could force a rethink about how the Earth formed.The diamonds are believed to date back more than four billion years, making them almost as old as the 4.5 billion year old planet, according a report from Australian and German researchers in the scientific journal Nature. "We're still stunned, it was the last thing we expected to find," geologist Alexander Nemchin from Western Australia's Curtin University of Technology told AFP.The diamonds were found trapped inside zircon crystals from the Jack Hills region in the remote north of Western Australia state. The 50 gems are tiny, with the largest measuring only 70 microns, or about the width of a human hair and most invisible to the naked eye.Nemchin said they could have major implications for scientists trying to understand the Earth's early geology because they are believed to have formed up to a bil...
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For The Love of God: A Damien Hirst's diamond skull
2007-09-05 22:15:00
Damien Hirst's latest artwork is this life-size platinum skull encrusted with 8,601 fine diamonds. The sculpture, titled "For The Love of God," will likely sell for as much as $100 million, making it the priciest contemporary artwork ever made. White Cube gallery is selling several limited edition silkscreen prints of the work, priced from £900 to £10,000, for one sprinkled with diamond dust. The title of the piece comes from Hirst's mother who asked her son, ?For the love of God, what are you going to do next?? From the New York Times:For Hirst, famous pickler of sharks and bovine bisector, all his art is about death. This piece, which was cast from an 18th-century skull he bought in London, was influenced by Mexican skulls encrusted in turquoise. ?I remember thinking it would be great to do a diamond one ? but just prohibitively expensive,? he recalls. ?Then I started to think ? maybe that?s why it is a good thing to do. Death is such a heavy subject, it would be good to make so...
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Is It Or Isn?t It? The World?s Largest Diamond
2007-09-03 23:21:00
Unconfirmed reports are in from South Africa regarding the discovery of what may be the world?s largest diamond. According to Brett Jolly, a shareholder in the small South African mining company that found the diamond, the stone is around 7,000 carats, twice the size of the world?s largest diamond - the Cullinan Diamond . In 2000 police foiled a plan to steal the 203-ct. flawless pear-shaped Millennium Star diamond and 11 other rare blue diamonds, including the 27.64-ct. blue Heart of Eternity diamond from London?s Millennium Diamond. In a scene right out of the James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough," the robbers planned to make their getaway via a speedboat on the nearby Thames River. But police, acting on a tip given several weeks ago, had prepared for the theft and had officers stationed around the Millennium Dome dressed as members of the cleaning staff carrying weapons in their refuse bags. Some 100 officers lay in wait as a gang attempted to use a mechanical digger to ste...
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Centenary Diamond: the world's largest colorless, flawless diamond
2007-09-01 23:47:00
The Centenary Diamond was discovered in the Premier Mine on July 17, 1986 using their X-ray imaging system. It is the world's third-largest, modern-cut perfect diamond that possesses 599 carats in rough form. The Gemological Institute of America has certified Centenary Diamond with a color grade as D color. This is supposed to be the highest grade of colorless diamond.The original rough was presented on May 11, 1988 in the Centennial Celebration of the De Beers Consolidated Mines. As then-chairman Julian Oglivie Thompson said, "We have recovered at the Premier Mine a diamond of 599 carats (119.8 g) which is perfect in color ? indeed it is one of the largest top-color diamonds ever found. Naturally it will be called the Centenary Diamond."The Centenary is characterized with 75 faces on the pinnacle, 89 on the base and 83 on the girdle that forms a total of 247 facets. In recent times, the diamond has been placed as an element of the British Crown Jewels.The complete version of the C...
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Regent diamond: formerly Pitt Diamond
2007-08-28 22:37:00
Regent diamond, also called Pitt Diamond , a brilliant-cut stone with a slight blue tinge that once was the outstanding gem of the French crown jewels; it is said to have been discovered by a slave in the Parteal Mines (also spelled 'Partial') on the Kistna River of India about 1701 and weighed 410 carats in rough form. The slave stole the enormous rough concealing it in bandages of a self-inflicted leg wound, and fled to the seacoast. There, he divulged his secret to an English sea captain, offering him half the value of the stone in return for safe passage to a free country. But during the voyage to Bombay, temptation overcame this seafaring man and he murdered the slave took th diamond. After selling it to an Indian diamond merchant named Jamchund for about $5000, the captain squandered the proceeds in dissipation and, in a fit of remorse and delirium tremens, hanged himself.In 1702, Jamchund sold the stone for about $100,000 to Sir Thomas Pitt, British governor in Madras, who...
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The curse of the Hope Diamond
2007-08-24 22:55:00
The unusual Blue diamond that became the Hope , appeared in Europe in 1669 and is believed to be from Golconda. It is sapphire-blue gemstone and one of the largest blue diamonds known. The 45.52 carat steel blue Hope Diamond was found in India back in remote times as a rough crystal weighing 112 carats.The stone was brought to France by the jewel trader Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and purchased by Louis XIV in 1668 as part of the French crown jewels. This stone, later called the French Blue, was recut into a 67-carat heart in 1673 and disappeared after the crown-jewel robbery of 1792 , possibly reappearing in Spain 7 years later. According to the legend, a curse befell the large, blue diamond when it was stolen from an idol in India - a curse that foretold bad luck and death not only for the owner of the diamond but for all who touched it. Whether or not you believe in the curse, the Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries. Its perfect quality, its large size, and its rare color ...
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Excelsior Diamond : named after the Jubilee in honor of Queen Victoria
2007-08-22 23:17:00
On the evening of June 30, 1893, an African mine worker picked up an immense diamond in a shovelful of gravel which he was loading into a truck; he hid it from his overseer and delivered it directly into the hands of the mine manager. The diamond was discovered in the Jagersfontein mine in the Orange River Colony. The lucky Kaffir was rewarded he received $2500 and a horse equipped with saddle and bridle. The diamond had a blue-white tint and weighed 971 3/4 carats (194.2 g) or equivalent to 995.2 metric caratsThe shape the diamond stone was flat on one side and rose to a peak on the other, rather like a loaf of rye bread. Apparently it was this fact which caused the diamond to be given the name of Excelsior, meaning higher. The stone was ultimately named the Jubilee in honour of the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the accession of the late Queen Victoria .Until 1905, when the larger Cullinan diamond was found, the Excelsior was the largest known diamond in the world. The...
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Cullinan Diamond : The largest gem diamond ever found
2007-08-15 22:35:00
This 3,106.75 carat diamond is the largest gem diamond ever found. It was discovered on January 26, 1905 at the Premier Diamond Mining Company in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa, by Frederick Wells, a mine superintendent. Although a carbonado found in Brazil weighed more than 3,600 carats (720 g), no gem-quality material could be extracted from it. The stone was named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the diamond mine. The stone was bought by the Transvaal government for $800,000 and presented to King Edward VII. It was cut into three large parts by Asscher Brothers of Amsterdam, and eventually into some 11 large gem-quality stones, 96 smaller brilliants, and 9.5 carats of unpolished pieces. At the time, technology had not yet evolved to guarantee quality of the modern standard, and cutting the diamond was considered difficult and risky. In order to enable Asscher to cut the diamond in one blow an incision was made, half an inch deep. Then a specifically designed knife was pl...
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Jubilee Diamond: A colourless, flawless, clear white, cushion-shaped diamon
2007-08-14 22:35:00
The Jubilee Diamond , originally known as the Reitz Diamond is a colourless, flawless, clear white cushion-shaped diamond weighing almost 651 carats in rough form. It was found in the Jaegersfontein mine in South Africa in 1895. It was originally named after Francis William Reitz, the then president of the Orange Free State where the stone was discovered A consortium of diamond merchants from London purchased it along with its even larger sister, the Excelsior, in 1896, and sent it to Amsterdam where it was polished by M.B. Barends. A 40 carat chunk was removed, which itself yielded a 13.34 pear-shaped gem eventually purchased by Dom Carlos I of Portugal. Later on, it was faceted into a cushion brilliant of about 245 carats in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, from which it takes its name. ?Excelsior diamond?, until the discovery of the Cullinan diamond in 1905, the world's largest-known uncut diamond. When found by a worker loading a truck in the De Beers mine ...
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Sunstone : The stone of luck and romance
2007-08-13 22:20:00
Sunstone is a gemstone in the feldspar group that exhibits schiller or sheen. It is exhibiting in certain directions a brilliant spangled appearance, which has led to its use as an ornamental stone. The effect appears to be due to reflections from enclosures of red haematite, in the form of minute scales, which are hexagonal, rhombic or irregular in shape, and are disposed parallel to the principal cleavage-plane. These enclosures give the stone an appearance something like that of aventurine, whence sunstone is known also as "aventurine-feldspar." Sunstone is a rich golden or reddish brown colour, with plays of red yellow and orange light, sometimes also with green, caused by the inclusion of microscopically thin plates of goethite or hematite. On Mohs? scale of hardness, sunstone ranks 6 to 6.5. While it is found in India, Canada, Madagascar, Russia (Siberia), and the United States, sources for the best sunstone include Tvedestrand and Hitero on the south coast of Norway. Sunston...
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A well cut ciamond
2007-08-07 23:34:00
In defining the best cut, personal preference will always be an issue. So the listed category Well Cut, Very Good, Excellent & Ideal assists you in selecting the right diamond. Ideal cut has the narrowest range, with Excellent and Very Good following later. The lowest score becomes the overall cut grade. The lowest assigned grade for any individual characteristic is always used. For e.g. If the table percentage falls within excellent and yet the depth percentage is in the very good range, the diamond is classified as Very Good. Every shape of diamonds does not have the same proportions. Every diamond shape requires its own guidelines in order to achieve maximum beauty. Due to mathematical differences, inherent in different shapes, the table and depth guidelines are formulated to maximize fire & brilliance. This is done to have a magnificent display that highlights the individuality and character of each shape. Girdle:The girdle is the outer edge of a diamond. It usually has a f...