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 […]
Dog Sniffs Out a Gem
Posted on December 30th, 2014 by Joe G
A diamond worth over $18,000 was thought to be lost, until Rosie found it on her walk in Lincolnshire in the UK. The diamond was dropped 100,000 from space as part of a publicity stunt for jeweler 77 Diamonds in August. Treasure hunters tried and failed to find it, so the diamond was thought to […]