This Thursday, February 5, will mark Sotheby’s New York’s 2015 “Important Jewels” sale. The sale includes jewelry designs from the last 100 years, with styles varying from antique, to retro, to contemporary. One of the highlighted pieces is a platinum ring featuring 14.78-carat oval-cut diamond, given a D color grade from the GIA — the […]
New Cartier Watch – It’s Complicated
Posted on January 27th, 2015 by Joe G
Each year, Cartier’s watchmaking department comes up with new ideas, designs and technical advancements to add to its collection of fine watches. This year it will introduce the Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication Skeleton, the most complicated watch ever produced by the company. Each complication, including a minute repeater, perpetual calendar, and flying tourbillon, is […]
New Year, New Coins
Posted on January 20th, 2015 by Joe G
The new year brings new coins. 2015 will bring annual highlights like Chinese Pandas and American Golden Eagles, but there are also coins that will be issued for the first time. Here are a few you can look forward to: JFK $1 Presidential Coin There have been several John F. Kennedy coins over the years, […]
Letter Written by Titanic Survivor Up for Auction
Posted on January 14th, 2015 by Joe G
A letter written by prominent fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, who survived the sinking of the Titanic, will go up for auction today in Boston. The letter was written to a friend in New York in the months after the ship’s sinking. Judging by its content, Duff-Gordon was unhappy with how things went for her […]
What is a Fancy Diamond?
Posted on January 7th, 2015 by Joe G
You hear certain diamonds being referred to as “fancy” diamonds, but what does this mean? Fancy diamonds are those that are richly colored rather than the traditional clear or white. While some diamonds are colored in a laboratory, fancy diamonds are naturally colored by elements like nitrogen and boron. These cause impurities in the stone […]