Apple Watch Shining in Diamonds

Do you want the hottest smartwatch to start this new 2015 year with? It's definitely Apple Watch, what these are diamonds that make it really an iconic piece of jewelry.

The basic version of Apple Watch costs $349 and its gold alternative cost as much as $5,000. If that is still a small price tag you are fond of diamond jewelry than you can order diamond encrusted Apple Watch from Mervis, but be ready to pay around $30,000 per item. The device is not yet available for purchase. A customer can pre-order the device now but still it will be ready not sooner than in summer 2015.

Julien Macdonald Unveiled a Multi-Million-Dollar Diamond-Encrusted Wedding Dress

How many Welsh fashion designer do you know? Laura Ashley, Kate Lambert, Timothy Everest are among them but Julien Macdonald is the one that is most talked about now. The reason is his diamond-encrusted wedding dress which he unveiled during Fashion Week 2014 in London.

This was the highlight of Macdonald's show, the podium was a match to a gown's beauty – the Royal Opera House. The dress was presented by Abbey Clancy while the Welsh designer got a status of the king of sparkle. The price was also announced - $6.5 million!

The One Hundred Bracelet Dazzles With A Hundred of Diamonds

Rahaminov Diamonds, a diamond jewelry company that won a JCK Jewelers' Choice Award two years in a row, seems to challenge for another prize this year. They have created a unique bracelet which has no equals in the world. It is called “The One Hundred” where 'hundred' stands for a number of diamonds.

Rahaminov Diamonds are know for their bold experiment with color and design. They often use fancy colored diamonds in their collection. The latter are always a win-win option. When there are one hundred of them they are certainly magnetic. The One Hundred bracelet name is self-explanatory. The jewel is made of 18-karat pink gold. The variety of colors and shapers are impressive! You can see fancy green, fancy dark green, fancy yellow, fancy brown pink, fancy intense green, fancy intense yellow, fancy orange brown just to name a few. The shapes include square, brilliant, heart, oval, cushion, pear and on and on! Each diamond in carefully mounted into a bezel setting, the bracelet is 100% hand-made with no analogy in the world. Most of the diamonds used are certified by the Gemological Institute of America.

Diamonds for Charity

Diamonds are expensive and there's hardly a person to doubt that. But it's one thing when a huge some of money they are sold for drop in the pocket of a jewelry collector, and quite another when they raise funds for charity. Hopefully, a lady's diamond watch sponsored by anonymous donor will be sold for a pretty some of money during the charity night in Bury St Edmunds on September 23.

Boots: Most Quaint Setting for Diamonds

It's easy to imagine diamonds to be worn on a neck, finger, wrist, hair, even on teeth but it's unusual to see them on footwear. Well, 'road test' is not what diamonds, the most expensive gems, deserve. However, these ankle boots were not made for an everyday wear but were used as an odd setting for expensive gems. If assessed in terms of beauty – they are 100% dazzling and brilliant! And the most expensive by the way.

The boots were designed by the designers An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx from Antwerp and made by diamond dealer Diarough. They were working on them to be in time for the Business of Design Week held in Hong Kong in December 2013. Now they can be found in the office of Diarough, so several jewelers from New Zealand and Australia had got an opportunity to try on them as a part of their trip to Antwerp.

Diamond Grillz — Freak, Fashion Whim or a Means to Improve Oral Health

Once there was RyanLochte, the Olympic gold-winner in swimming, this time Katy Perry was spotted wearing precious grillz. The tendency is gaining momentum. But is it just a freaky thing of celebrity or do they know the real value of diamond encrusted grillz?

The idea of using diamond-encrusted teeth has serious medical grounds. Scientists have discovered that diamonds of small spherical shape can increase the durability of dental implants and promote bone growth. They can also fight diseases and improve oral health.

Show Off Your Pride For Your Country

The 4th of July is a great holiday for the whole American nation. This is the day when every citizen can retrospect to a period of country formation, to see how huge the changes are and to thank God for the time we are living in now.

Each holiday is a good reminder of the events in the past but in order to make it more visual there should be kind of symbols. As for the Independence Day there are more than enough attributes of the holiday: stars and stripes seen everywhere from meals to T-shirts, unforgettable firework show, traditional movies watched on this day and an eagle symbol. Let's pay attention to the last from the row.

Diamond-Encrusted Addition to Lady's Wardrobe — Million-Dollar Shoes

With a diamond-encrusted sun glasses, leather belt with a diamond-encrusted buckle luxury lingerie and many more diamond covered attires a diamond lover can really make up a whole wardrobe of extravagant outfits. Now add a pair of diamond stiletto shoes to that list.

This is a pair of unique hand-strassed, diamond-encrusted shoes created by Evelyn Fox, the founder of Crystal Heels™. Fox, who has been in the fashion industry for very many years already, claims to know much in high-end fashion. She always strives to turn common shoes into exquisite accessories, striking and eye-catching. But this time she made her best – mouth-watering diamond-encrusted pumps priced at $1 million. This is rather a jewelry than a pair of shoes, don't you think so?

$5 million Birthday Present for a Precious Husband

It's hard to say the value of a present that is to symbolize true fillings of a gift buyer, but Beyonce seemed to set the price - $5 million. This is really a very generous present she gave to her literally brilliant husband Jay-Z, one of the most talented rappers in the world.

This diamond-encrusted watch called 'Big Bang' is not simply a strikingly expensive thing (it indeed is!) but also a single copy of the most pricey wristwatch ever made by Hublot. It is covered with 1,282 diamonds of colorless diamonds of various shape to suit the design. Let us remind that on December 4 Jay-Z celebrated his 43rd birthday. Not only a rapper he is but a notable entertainer, recognizable starlet and now a perfect eye-catcher due to his new watch.

Well, at least diamond-encrusted watch is not that extravagant thing like grills, flash drive or lingerie.

Smile With Diamonds

There is a good old technique a man uses to show he is interested in a woman: wink of an eye. In some cases it works of course, but it can't be called a 100% win-win method what most of men expect it to be. Now if an Indian man wants to win a girl over, he gives her a glimpse of his diamond... teeth.

India is one of the largest exporters of diamonds in the world and diamond gems are in favor there. Even though the greater part of the population is poor, there is nothing to prevent rich ones from buying diamonds or from capping them in teeth (don't mix it with diamond grills) . According to Dr Vivek Saggar, dental jewelry is very popular among youth now and being an orthodontist he has a range of patients who inquire about dental jewelry procedures. Actually, this trend for 'diamonds in teeth' started seven or eight years ago but at that time it could be only one person per month who was interested in capping a gem in his/her tooth. Now the number of them is growing very fast with about 10% increase almost every year.

Who are they?

These are mostly young ladies in their twenties and thirties who do want to shine a diamond glimpse. Guys want to be the eye-catchers as well, but the ration of males vs females is 3 to 7, with girls wining!

Where do they put diamonds?

As far as this is the gem to be shown off, it should be in plain sight so the choice of a tooth is evident: this is either an upper canine or lateral incisor.

What gems do they opt for?

They are diamonds but in fact synthetic ones! Similar to natural diamonds they possess that brilliance needed to jazz up any smile. The choice of a color depends on the personal preferences. White diamonds are more popular compared to colored but some fashion-mongers prefer green, pink and red gems. These are mostly round cut diamonds, but star-shaped also seem trendy.

To sum up, if you want to add some zest to your smile choose a diamond as a win-win option.

Diamonds and Platinum on the Red Carpet 2012: Primetime Emmy Awards

The Red Carpet has always been a grandiose event, when the whole world is thrilled with the expectations to get to know who is the best lead actor, lead actress, guest actors, director, etc. But not only that, this is always a huge party flashy with luxury gowns, eye-catchy high heels, bizarre accessories and fine jewelry. Speaking about the latter this is platinum that is again

loved by celebs today.

Hollywood's stars as if all of them were in collusion celebrated this big event wearing platinum. The choice is absolutely decent. This is the precious metal that never changes its color or fades over time. Couple it with diamonds and you will get an everlasting jewelry that can be handed down to many generations.

Platinum is a beneficial setting for diamonds of any color: while it enhance the brilliance of colorless stones it also underlines the beauty of colored ones. Now it's clear why such mega stars like Sofia Vergara, Padma Lakshmi, Christina Hendricks, Tina Fey and others were radiant with drop earrings, cuffs bracelets and rings. Male stars such as Jon Hamm and James Van Der Beek didn't yield the ladies in terms of exquisite style and dazzled platinum and diamond cufflinks.

Chopard and Bvlgari are definitely an old-school brands that stood the test of time and rivalry, but these were Neil Lane, Lorraine Schwartz and Fred Leighton who ruled the Red Carpet. The most exotic jewelry (Neil Lane) were worn by Padma Lakshmi who chose platinum pendant earrings from the 1920's with coral, onix and diamonds, and platinum coctail ring from the same period featuring diamond and onix. Starling Sophia Vergara opted for the largest pieces offered by Neil Lane, this is a set of platinum and diamond earrings (45 carats), cuff bracelets (110 carats) and a ring with two center diamonds (20 carats).

Patriotic Grills are Diamond Encrusted

While there are many different things that are encrusted with diamonds (the bra, flash drive, body tattoo, skull and many more) Ryan Lochte diamond covered grills are the most talked about now.

The Olympic gold-winner Ryan Lochte was so happy to win his medal on the 2012 London Olympics that he hasn't found other way to express his patriotism as to show off his red, white and blue diamond encrusted grills on the podium. Shining the colors of the American flag, the grills serve a kind of a symbol the swimmer wears while getting his awards.

In his interview Ryan Lochte said: "For those who don't know what a grill is, it's basically a retainer filled with diamonds. I wear it when I go on the podium. It's just a unique way of showing personality out to everyone".

If you think that this is the champion's first eccentric prank with a mouthpiece, you are wrong. Last year he stunned the fans by his diamond item during the 2011 World Championship in Shanghai, in 2009 he rushed onto the podium in Rome at the 2009 Wold Championship and the year before his teeth shined at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. These are only most known meets where Ryan Lochte startle the public.

Well, as you see the diamonds can be a nice way to express oneself either on the podium or in a way of anniversary present.

Butterfly Meadow

“I have wings but I'm not a bird. I'm small and colorful” the kid riddle says, and we would add “

When made of precious gems I'm very enticing for collectors regardless my high price tag”. Yes, this is a butterfly but as you can guess not a usual one and not even a single one!

There is an exhibition of a large collection of butterfly brooches on display in the Gem and Mineral Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Precious 'species' will remain there till April 2013 so it makes easy to plan your visit in the museum once you are in LA. What you will see there is 16 butterflies made from 18K gold and covered with colored gemstones ranging from opal to diamonds.

Unique brooches were created by Buzz and Bernadine. Don't be surprised if these names are unknown to you, because a talented gem cutter and a skillful jewelry designer decided not to uncover their full names. Instead they tried to draw maximum attention to their cherished creations rather than personalities.

Each butterfly 'wears' unique gems sparingly collected by the owners through more than thirty years and is named after the gems it is covered with. There is the Opal Butterfly featuring the opals from Virgin Valley, Nevada; there is the Benitoite Butterfly beautified with 34.67 carats of amazing blue gemstones which are known as the California state gem. However, as far as we are more interested in diamonds than in any other gems that is why the exhibit that caught our attention is the Hiddenite Butterfly. The body is made of green oval-shaped hiddenite that is known as the largest ever faceted and covered with lots of colorless diamonds. With red beryl eyes and tourmaline elements this brooch would be a perfect accessory for any lady of fashion for any occasion. But it won't as far as Buzz & Bernadine made it rather for contemplating than for wearing. So let's simply enjoy this beauty.

Luxurious Lingerie

Women are always hunting for beautiful outfits like chiffon flowy scarfs, flashy handbags, python skin purses, bright belts if not to mention trendy clothing. But all these are visible things the surroundings can admire yet there is one hidden from the eyes but манящий, so that some ladies are ready to drop big bucks on it – lingerie.

This lingerie is a special one: this is a diamond and gold bra. Made from 18K gold and encrusted with about 500 little diamonds, it will cost $1 million to a faithful fashonista. This brilliant beauty is offered on sale at Birmingham Estate & Jewelry Buyers shop. It even has a name – Rita given after Anthony Aubry's, the shop owner, wife.

Believe it or not, but making a bra takes pretty much time and skills especially when it's diamond. A whole team of jewelers worked to make brasseries from gold and then to thickly cover it with diamonds.

Rita bra is actually not the first one to cost $1million. Before Victoria's Secret offered its 'Fantasy' bra, but there is the difference between them. While Fantasy is made of fabric, Rita is molded from gold and it's pretty weighty – 750 gm of gold only. It sounds like this is a huge gold bar and a great opportunity for investments.

Diamond Encrusted Flash Drive: Let Your Stored Data Get More Flash

There is always a problem with flash drives: you can easily lose either its cap or the flash itself. The best way to keep it with you is to wear it around your neck like a pendant. But it usually is not that pretty to wear it that way, unless of course it's a Magic Mushroom USB key encrusted with precious stones.

We've already wrote a lot about various gadgets, accessories and even body adorned with diamonds, now it's time for a flash drive. A Magic Mushroom flash is a unique thing. Yes, it's look like a very pretty mushroom covered with any gem to your liking. If it's made in white gold and is beautified with diamonds and emeralds, it will cost around $37,000. A cheaper version of the above-mentioned Mushroom can be made in pink gold with white diamonds and pink sapphires, in this case it won't cost more than $16,500. But if yellow gold is what you love most of all, be ready to pay $24,400 for a flash drive sparkling with white diamonds and rubies.

While the flash drive body is decorated with tiny gems, the total amount of carat weight can be impressive. Of course, it depends on the gemstones you choose for it: if they are diamonds and emeralds then it will weight 9.18 carat in total, while the rest variations with rubies or with sapphires will provide 11.34 carats in total.

Those who are interested more in storage capacity than in carat weight will be interested more in flash drive memory. So the memory capacity is 32 GB. With a Magic Mushroom you will kill two birds with one stone: get a pretty diamond jewelry which you can wear like a pendant, and have a very handy data storage device.

Diamond Tattoo – the Priciest Tattoo in the World

It's known that diamonds are loved both by men and women and while women try to adorn anything they have with these precious gems be it a handbag or the iPad, men managed to set them in luxury autos. It seems the whole world is competing for making something special of diamonds like the Swiss jeweler, but this time the setting for diamonds is very unusual – human body!
The world's most expensive tattoo is made of 612 diamonds. All of them are of 0.5 carat size ideally cut and colorless. As far as 'the setting' is very tender the jeweler, rather than a tattoo master, applied a water based adhesive to firmly stick them. This is Minki van der Westhuizen model who desired to become a princess for a while and try on an unusual tattoo. However to become one cost her a pretty sum of money - $924,000!

Diamonds Shine at Golden Globes

With all Golden Globes bestowed it's a nice time to summarize the even. But as far as this blog concerns diamonds, let's focus on them rather than on long-awaited prizes.

As always the celebrities was top models on the Red carpet showcasing their alluring dresses, bright smiles and non less bright diamond jewelry. It's only January and it means celebrities are setting trends for the rest of the year. Let's see what to expect in regard to diamond jewelry.
Beyonce stack to classic styles by wearing platinum and diamond necklace and diamond cushion-cut earrings. The set was designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Kate Beckinsale has always had a good taste and this year was no different. She was lovely in her pale dress but those who think is wasn't too flashy would be fully dazzled by the impressive size of her diamond earrings and three! platinum and diamond cuffs.

36-year old actress Angelina Jolie was as usual amazing. Like Beyonce, she opted for Lorraine Schwartz set of jewelry consisting of platinum and diamond stud earrings and a huge 12-carat diamond ring. But Natalie Portman took a large set: drop earrings, pear-shaped diamond ring and three platinum & diamond bracelets by Schwartz.

Undoubtedly, Lorraine Schwartz was a popular option, however you could also see the jewelry designed by Tiffany & Co (on Jessica Biel), Bulgari (on Jessica Alba, Jodie Foster) and Van Cleef and Arpels (on Zooey Deschannel).

Apparently diamonds are popular as they've always been, what has changed is the setting: this year this is platinum. Fancy colored diamonds were overshadowed by (it may sound strange but still) colorless diamonds, by the amount of them. Cuffs are trendy this year, any of them from simple band to pretentiously shaped, but all covered with diamonds. It seems today's trends can hardly satisfy most people's valets, if can't there is always more affordable alternative.

Diamond Encrusted Stamp?

Those familiar with any compulsive collector know that a rare item that can be a great addition to the collection is a longed-for and most desired thing. So 6 February is going to be an important day for devoted philatelists and a chance to get one of unique stamps which are sparse in number – the stamp created by Jersey Post in honor of 60th anniversary of Queen's accession to the throne. But this-year anniversary is a special one, it's better to say diamond one.

All Diamond Jubilee stamps, and the number is limited to 600 items, will feature real diamonds decorating the Queen's crown. Each diamond measures 1.25mm and is carefully mounted in the diadem. As far as these are real diamonds, even though so tiny, the price tag corresponds to the jewel – one stamp will cost you 125 pounds or about 190 dollars.

Luxury Cars Are Being Sold at High Speed in Countries of Arabian Peninsular

While the rest of the countries around the globe are still struggling the economical crisis, the UAE holds the forth place in the world market for purchasing extremely pricey Rolls-Royce cars. The recent motor show hold in the UAE was just a prove for that the countries of Arabian Peninsular are still going strong.

Keeping in the mind that this blog is fully devoted to diamonds and we are now speaking about luxury cars, it wouldn't be difficult to combine these two things. Luxury usually refers to diamonds and a luxury car is that encrusted with the latter. This is a flying lady figurine standing on the stainless bonnet of “Riviera Phantom”. No less than 2,300 diamonds beautify the delicate statuette.After such a luxury, highly expensive thing diamond-encrusted skull and iPad are upstaged.

Curiously enough but Rolls-Royce luxury cars priced above $270,000 have never fallen off the popularity among royalty and entrepreneurs even at hard times. According to James Crichton, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' regional director for the Middle East and Africa, the market slowed down a bit due to some problems in euro zone, however it has nothing to do with the UAE and Saudi Arabia, where they are up from 78% and 60% respectively. What is more, this number can grow very fast after the women will be allowed to drive. Currently they are driven by chauffeurs or relatives. The fact that women do consider diamonds to be their best friends, the demand for such luxury cars as diamond- encrusted “Riviera Phantom” will grow dramatically.

Everything Can be Lost, Even Diamonds

When speaking about diamond jewelry we usually ponder over how we own it being afraid even to assume if we can lose it. Yet such things happen very often but when they happen to celebrities this news is blown up immediately.

Just recently Michael Michele, an American known television personality, has lost a diamond- and emerald-encrusted bracelet she wore during L'Oreal Paris Legends Gala. It's a known fact that celebrities usually serve as objects for advertising anything put on them from clothing, accessories to jewelry. When it concerns VIP persons, they are prone to promote only fine jewelry such as diamond one, which you know, is very costly. So, it's clear why “Gossip Girl” star was in panic when she found her diamond bracelet was missing. First, it wasn't hers, and second, it cost a quarter of a million! What Michael Michele hasn't lost was courage so she dived under her table hunting for a precious bracelet. By the way, this pretty piece of jewelry was designed by Mini So, a New York-based designer and a friend of Michele.

Luckily for the actress, one of the guests found the precious thing on the stairs and fetched it to the owner. Hasty stir about the lost jewel and panic are now far behind but this case showed how easily the happiness from owning a priceless diamond jewelry can be spoiled when it is lost.