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A $150,000 Diamond Jubilee gold egg
Fabergé Big Egg Hunt has been launched and at the end of the line is a glittering golden prize. Unveiled by actress Emilia Fox at Fabergé’s central London boutique, the prize on offer is a shimmering diamond jubilee rose gold egg studded with 60 gemstones representing the years of the Queen’s reign.
Set with diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires the egg is said to be worth $157,750. The egg hunt would send luxury lovers on a wild hunt across London to locate over 200 eggs decorated by big names such as Bruce Oldfield, Sir Ridley Scott and Zandra Rhodes. Each egg features a keyword that need to be texted to 80001.
The Charles Oudin Full Amazone Curvex Women’s Watch
The dazzle factor is taken too seriously, making the bedazzled object a bit awkward. That seems to be the case with the Full Amazone Curvex watch for women by the Paris-based brand Charles Oudin. The watch features 26 carats of precious stones, which include rubies and emeralds set into floral motif amidst a sea of diamonds. The watch comes enclosed in an 18-carat white gold case and you can opt between a Swiss ETA quartz or Swiss Frederic Piguet automatic movement.
A jewel-studded canopy to go under auction hammer
Indian royalty has kept some manage to stash away some absolutely stunning nuggets, which rarely make a public appearance. This time a beautiful jeweled canopy from India dated 150 years ago has surfaced to be brought under Sotheby’s hammer. Commissioned by the then Maharaja of Baroda, Khande Rao Gaekwar, the canopy encrusted with more than 500,000 pearls, diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds sewn on silk was meant as a gift for the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed in Medina.
DeLaneau’s Magic Haute Joaillerie
May be it’s the craftmanship, may be some mystical tech or may be magic, DeLaneau has never failed to impress us. Take for instance the Magic Haute Joaillerie. A secret watch and a feat of jewellery engineering, the USP of this watch are not only its interesting design but also the clever use of precious stones. Baguette-cut diamonds and rubies are invisibly set in a spiral. The queer quotient of the watch is the dome that hides inside the watch.
Richard Mille RM 026 Watch For Women
High-tech themed watch maker Richard Mille produces women’s jewelry watches using the same watch case styles. While the two manners of watches are seemingly very different, the brand is able to make it work. For 2011, Richard Mille’s new ultra high-end women’s watch is the RM 026, otherwise known as the “snakes in a mother f’in half million dollar watch.”
The idea behind the piece is that the skeletonized tourbillon movement should look like two snakes are moving around in it. The illusion works pretty well. Thankfully the snakes are not too life-like being made out of precious stones (otherwise that might be quite creepy). One snake is done in mostly rubies, while the other in mostly emeralds. Look closely and you’ll see scales engraved into the 18k white gold of the snake bodies. On the snakes, as the hour indicators, and all over the case are diamonds. A really neat feature is that sapphire caseback displays a solid onyx place.
The new RM 026 movement has the time, a tourbillon, a second’s indicator on the back of the watch, and a power reserve indicator on the dial. The tonneau shaped watch case is 39.70mm wide and 45mm tall. Richard Mille will offer the RM 026 in titanium, 18k red gold, or 18k white gold.
Designer Alp Sagnak turns Bones into Bracelet
One would never have thought that he would see jewellery made of bones in this day and age. It means they were all the rage in the prehistoric period when our ancestors hadn’t really figured out how to work with the metals that are all the rage now. But designer Alp Sagnak wishes to go back to the past and as a result has created the Bone Bracelet.
Now I think it is a little creepy to be wearing things made of bones, but then again, there are some people who might actually find the idea pretty attractive. Plus it can definitely be a conversation starter. This bracelet is actually an oversized cuff that uses opossum bones and is covered with oxidized silver along with 24 carat gold, rubies and diamonds. Designers these days really like to experiment with different materials.
The ‘Instrumento Novantatre’ timepiece: A True Jewel
The timepiece launched by Instrumento Novantatre in 2007 has been upgraded and made into a true jewel.
Specifications:
- 47.2 x 40 mm
- Self winding mechanical movement
- Three variations: baguette-cut‚ rubies (in pink stingray), blue sapphires (in blue stingray, and a (black alligator leather) diamond-set version
- Oversized 9 and 3 numerals set with baguette-cut black or white diamonds, blue sapphires and rubies
The most striking feature of this radiant timepiece is the detailed assembly of gems in such a way that there is a striking contrast with the gem-setting on the dial.
A 16th century rare Ottoman box soon to be sold at Sotheby’s
On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, Sotheby’s biannual Arts of the Islamic World Auction will put for sale a 16th century Ottoman ivory and turquoise-inlaid box set with rubies.
An astonishing talent of Safavid craftsmen for the exclusive use of the Shah and the governing elite during the first half of the 16th century, the box measures 17.3cm in length, 8.8cm in width and 3.2cm in height.
Specifications:
- Ruby jeweled-rosette
- Ivory filets carefully fitted along the object’s edges
- Mosaic-sliced turquoise or firuzekari
- Split-Palmette patterns
- Symmetrical panels containing intricately carved and gold-inlaid vegetal patterns
According to Edward Gibbs, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Middle East and India Department, Its sumptuous ornamentation is unmatched in elegance and skill, rendering it an item of the highest aesthetic and historical value.
Expected to generate up to $1,000,000.
Cartier Column by Alessandro Mendini: Where Jewels Unite
The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art will present the “Cartier column” at the occasion of the “Salone Internationale del Mobile 2010″, the most important design fair in the world.
Created by Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, the 2.3 m high‚ column is a collection of precious stones and gems – which includes a variety of pearls, emeralds, sapphires, mandarin garnets, moonstones, diamond paving, chalcedonies and rubies -that can no longer be used in a classical manner as they have been pierced, dismounted, engraved and set in resin ” all of which took over 18 months to complete.
According to the press release, these incredible gems, a true lapidary’s handbook, were classified by categories before being encapsulated into crystal cylinders subsequently incorporated vertically within pink-gold flutes¦the end process involved layering more than 7 blocks around a central axis and setting the stones into epoxy resin after 80 hours of polymerization.
The development and production of the “precious column” envisioned by Mendini have been assigned to Cartier Joaillerie.
Sotheby’s Australia to auction a rare purplish-red Argyle diamond
Sotheby’s Australia will be auctioning a Purplish-red Argyle diamond ” on April 12 sale of antique and contemporary jewelry – which will be its first red diamond ever to be offered for public auction.
Estimated to sell between $645,065 and $921, the 0.82-carat diamond is set into a ring with sparkling blue diamonds surrounded by a round brilliant-cut diamonds encrusted in platinum.
Other rare jewels that are also up for auction include:
- A double strand of emerald beads with a diamond set that is expected to generate $9,676 to $11,519
- Two rings, one made of sapphire and diamond, estimated to sell for $23,034 to $32,248 and the other made of emerald and diamond valued between $64,497 and $82,907
- A platinum and 10.07carat heart-shaped diamond ring valued between $313,207 and $386,87
- Bejeweled Vertu mobile phone studded with fancy pink and colorless diamonds, pink sapphires and rubies in 18-carat rose gold valued between $27,633 and $46,055
The ring will come along with a letter from Argyle Diamonds as a testament to the rareness of the reds.
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