LUXURY BRANDS BOOK The Pursuit of The Extraordinary
The High End Jewelry Edition
BUYING DIAMONDS The 4 Cs ICONIC JEWELRY
COLLECTIONS
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Conch Pearls
HARRY WINSTON
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THE HIGH-END JEWELRY EDITION
BUYING DIAMONDS
ICONIC JEWELRY World’ most recognized pieces
CONCH PEARLS COLLECTIONS Rings, Necklaces, Bracelets
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COVER | Harry Winston - Rare Jewels of The World HARRY WINSTON Industry: Jewelers Founded: 1932, New York City, New York. Founder: Harry Winston Headquarters: New York City. United States. Products: Jewelry and Time Pieces. www.harrywinston.com
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BUYING
DIAMONDS
Each Dimond is unique and has specific qualities that stablish its value. The global accepted standards for Diamonds are: CLARITY, CUT, CARAT WEIGHT AND COLOR , also known as the 4 C’s.
Koh-I-Noor Diamond. One of the largest cut diamonds in the world. Part of the British Crown Jewels. LUXURY BRANDS BOOK | MARCH 2018
105.6 carats
BUYING DIAMONDS CUT The most important of the 4 C’s is CUT because it has the greatest influence on diamond sparkle.
COLOR The second most important of the 4 C’s is color because it’s what the eye notices next after sparkle. The less color, the higher the color grade. Choose a diamond grade H or higher
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CLARITY Most diamonds have tiny imperfections called inclusions. The fewer and less visible the inclusions, the higher the clarity grade. They don’t affect the diamond’s beauty in a visible way. Consider and EYE-CLEAN diamond grade VS1 or higher
BUYING DIAMONDS CARAT WEIGHT It refers to a diamond’s weight, not its size. Consider cut and carat together.
Masterpieces become what they are by depicting something that hasn’t been seen before. There are no better examples than the ten famous paintings that follow, including some of the best Picasso paintings, works from Gustav Klimt and more.
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Ginevra de' Benci . Leonardo da Vinci US$ 5 million
The Hope Diamond 45.52 carats (9.10 grams) The Beau Sancy Diamond 34.98-carat (6.996 grams)
To’ak Chocolate
The Cullinan Diamond 3106.75 carats (621.35 grams)
Masterpieces become what they are by depicting something that hasn’t been seen before. There are no better examples than the ten famous paintings that follow, including some of the best Picasso paintings, works from Gustav Klimt and more.
To’ak Chocolate
Masterpieces become what they are by depicting something that hasn’t been seen before. There are no better examples than the ten famous paintings that follow, including some of the best Picasso paintings, works from Gustav Klimt and more.
To’ak Chocolate
ICONIC - World Most Recognized Jewelry
The Graff Pink, a rare 24.78 carat pink diamond, once owned by American celebrity jeweller Harry Winston, has been described as "one of the greatest diamonds ever discovered" . Said to be the most expensive piece of jewelry in the world, it was sold for a staggering price of
The Virgin of Venus. Sandro Botticelli
$46 million in November 2010. It is classified as a type II
Graff Pink
color diamond and has a perfect rating which gives it a price of about $1.85 million per carat.
The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a 31.06-carat (6.212 g) deep-blue diamond with internally flawless clarity. Laurence Graff purchased the Wittelsbach Diamond in 2008 for 16.4 million. In 2010, Graff revealed he had had the diamond cut by three diamond cutters to remove flaws. The diamond was now more than 4 carats (800 mg) lighter and was renamed the WittelsbachGraff Diamond. There is controversy, as critics claim the
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recutting has so altered the diamond as to make it unrecognizable, compromising its historical integrity.
ICONIC - World Most Recognized Jewelry
Heart of the Ocean Diamond. This Harry Winston Sapphire has an estimated price of $20 million and is an exact replica of the piece of jewelry from the Titanic. It is the most expensive piece of jewelry ever worn at the Oscars and replicas are being sold for $3.5 million in auction sales. The 56 carat diamond was originally owned by Louis XVI and
cut into a heart shape after the French RevoThe Hope Diamond, also known as Le Bijou du Roi ("the King's Jewel"), Le bleu de France ("France's Blue"), and the Tavernier Blue, is a large, 45.52-carat (9.104 g), deep-blue diamond, and now housed in the National Gem and Mineral collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
ICONIC - World Most Recognized Jewelry
Bvlgari Two-Stone Diamond Ring. This easily becomes one of the most expensive rings in the world due to the two large diamonds it contains. Created in 1972 from the Bulgari collection, an Asian collector willingly bought the ring for $15.7 million after an intense bidding war. Set with a triangular-cut fancy vivid blue diamond, weighing approximately 10.95
The Virgin of
carats, and a triangular-cut diamond, weighing approximately 9.87 carats, to the baguette-cut diamond half-hoop, mounted in gold, in an original BVLGARI black silk box By BVLGARI .
Bvlgari Two-Stone Diamond Ring Emerald and Diamond Tiara. Commissioned by German Prince Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, he gave this tiara as a gift to his second wife Katherine in the year 1900. There are also rumors that this tiara belonged to the wife of Emperor Napoleon III of France. Regardless of passed ownership, however, it contains a row of 11 polished pear shaped emeralds at about 500 carats total and an anonymous bidder paid $12.76 million for it.
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ICONIC - World Most Recognized Jewelry
La Pelegrina Pearl
Sotheby’s Golconda Diamond Ring
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CONCH
PEARLS
Assael. Two Natural Conch Pearls & 4.51 Carats of Diamonds set in Platinum
Looking for something different?. Conch Pearls are produced naturally by the queen conch mollusk, found in the Caribbean and they are extremely rare. This pink-hued pearl is used in designs from well-known brands such as Mikimoto, Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston, Chopard and Hemmerle. Conch Pearls differ from oyster pearls in that they are non-nacreous. They also weigh more than an oyster pearl and are sized by carat weight instead of millimeters and are harder and more resistant to erosion. Flame vibrancy is one of the most important determinants of value for a conch pearl, along with its shape and size. Conch pearls also can come in a variety of colors, ranging from pink to white to brownish, though pink is the most common. In the development of all pearls, nacreous or non-nacreous, an irritant gets trapped inside the mollusk and the pearl begins forming around it. Because a queen conch shell has only one entrance, it is more difficult for an irritant to become trapped inside and start the pearl formation. This is why it has been so difficult to cultivate them, until very recently. Conch pearls are in demand once again, thanks to their uniqueness. This is not that surprising, given their rarity and higher pricing, which makes them accessible only to a certain customer.
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There is a mollusk that creates a pearl in shades of pink and peach
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