January 2010 Archives
Are Some Tiffany Engagement Rings (Replicas) Better Than Others?
Simply conduct a Google search for 'Tiffany engagement rings' and you will find scores of results. Today, everyone who sells a 6 prong engagement ring, feels like they can call it a "Tiffany engagement ring" The reality is, nothing can be further from the truth in many instances and in many respects.
There are Tiffany 'style' engagement rings...and then there are practically indistinguishable Tiffany replica engagement rings...like the ExcelDiamonds.com Tiffany Engagement Ring Replica Setting.
Clealry, don't accept this premise as fact. Do your homework and see for yourself!
Have You Ever Seen A Red Diamond?
They really exist, but are very rare.
Leibish & Co .52 Carat Natural Purplish Red Argyle Diamond
You're looking at the .52 carat, SI-1 Clarity Radiant shape Argyle Natural Purplish Red Diamond, mined from the Argyle Diamond mine in Western Australia and now owned by the Israeli Diamond Wholesaler, Leibish & Co. The diamond was grade by the GIA Gem Trade Laboratory. The majority of the current red diamonds weigh less than one-half carat. The Argyle Mine accounts for 95% of all the red and pink diamonds in the world and supply is expected to run out by 2018.
According to Robert Kane of the GIA Gem Trade Laboratory, intense and vivid pink diamonds are rare and red where the primary dominant hue is purplish red is the rarest of all. Red diamonds are among the rarest of fancy color diamonds with only 20 known natural red diamonds in the world and have sold for record breaking prices.
In 1987, the fancy purplish red .95 carat Hancock Red Diamond sold for $926,000 per carat, and in 2007, a 6.04 carat flawless fancy blue diamond was sold by Sotheby's Auction House for $1.3 million per carat! Compare this to to the price for the highest colorless and flawless diamond which trades at $100,000 per carat.
In the world of fancy colored diamonds; "Do you see red", can take on a whole other positive meaning.
Diamond Engagement Rings On Neptune and Uranus?
Not so far-fetched.
The journal, Nature Physics in a recent article reports that oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus.
This research is based on first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond and found that diamond behaves like water during freezing and melting, with solid forms floating atop liquid forms. The finding gives scientists a new understanding about diamonds and some of the most distant planets in our solar system.
Diamond is an incredibly hard material, tough to melt and thus its difficult to measure its melting point. When diamond is heated to extreme temperatures it physically changes from diamond to graphite. The graphite then melts into a liquid.
Ultrahigh pressures such as found in huge gas giants like Neptune and Uranus are some of the places where ultrahigh temperatures and ultrahigh pressures exist. In this study, scientists liquefied a small diamond weighing a tenth of a carat at by blasting it with lasers at ultra high pressures 40 million times greater than what a person feels when standing at sea level on Earth. From there they slowly reduced the temperature and pressure.
When the pressure dropped to about 11 million times the atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth and the temperature dropped to about 50,000 degrees solid chunks of diamond began to appear. The pressure kept dropping, but the temperature of the diamond remained the same, with more and more chunks of diamond forming. Then the diamond did something unexpected. The chunks of diamond didn't sink. They floated. Microscopic diamond ice burgs floating in a tiny sea of liquid diamond. The diamond was behaving like water.
With most materials, the solid state is more dense than the liquid state. Water is an exception to that rule; when water freezes, the resulting ice is actually less dense than the surrounding water, which is why the ice floats and fish can survive a Minnesota winter.
Up to 10 percent of Uranus and Neptune is estimated to be made from carbon.
Diamonds, Diamonds, Diamonds!
Bring the Bling!
Custom 3 Stone Diamond Engagement Ring
Here are a few photos of a custom made diamond engagement ring which we just completed for one of our customers.
The center diamond is a 1.90 G SI1 Princess cut diamond and the two side stones are matching trillion diamonds! Take a look.
Diamond Cake!
Wane.com reports that a cake at the Dallas Bridal Show is under armed guard. The cake's on sale for $1 million.
The nine-tier cake is decorated in diamonds and sapphires. It will serve about 320 people, which comes out to $3,125 per slice.
No doubt The American Dental Association is very happy.
Where is The World's Second Largest Diamond Market?
Reuters reports today that due to its excellent economic growth which increased by 8.7%, China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest diamond market behind the United States with trade on the Shanghai diamond exchange rising 16.4 per cent to more than US$1.5 billion.
China's increasingly affluent middle class and vast pool of customers are the key factors for the rise in diamond sales in the world's most populous country.
Demand for diamonds only really started to develop in the 1990s when De Beers brought its global advertising campaign to China, tapping into the Chinese desire for conspicuous consumption and pursuit of Western lifestyle trends.
A $10,000 Valentine Day's Diamond Proposal
Luxist reports that The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is now offering the most expensive martini ever.
The Grey Goose $10,000 proposal cocktail comes with a one-of-a-kind diamond ring placed in the glass. This specialty cocktail is served by a white gloved waiter in a crystal glass on a silver platter in the hotel's famous Blue Bar. The hotel arranges for clients to work with a private jeweler to customize the engagement ring by picking carat size, number of stones and the setting. The hotel needs at least 72 hours notice to set up this arrangement.
Guys, don't forget or slur your proposal speech.
Blue Nile Stock: Buy, Hold, Or Sell?
Is the question posed this morning by The Wall Street Journal as Blue Nile is scheduled to release their earnings report in the beginning of February. Short selling has significantly increased and Blue Nile management have sold $18 million worth of stock since May 2009.
The full report is here:
Wall Streets Evaluation Of Blue Nile
