Jewellery News

Tiffany’s woke up to a surprise a few days ago when it realised that over 5% of its stake was picked up by the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar. The company has performed well in spite of the recession and economic downturn and this new injection of money could take it even higher in the luxury goods ladder. It was only when the filing was done that they realised the value of the stake the Qatari fund held. The rumour mill had been rife with prospects of increased investment but it is only now that the true pictre of who and how much has emerged.
Tiffany’s has a wide range of luxury goods and jewellery to offer all over the world today but it is its classic solitaire diamond ring which it made so popular that it is always associated with. They had predicted that sales could go up by 10% this year and as such, they really were seen as a very attractive investment option for many wealth funds. Of course, this also makes the Qatar wealth fund the largest single investor in the company. This isn’t its first investment in luxury goods companies around the world but it is certainly its first in America. They have previously invested in Harrod’s, London and LVMH which is the group owning the brands Dom Perignon, Louis Vuitton and Dior. They also own stakes in Glencore, Iberdrola, Lagardere and Miramax. While they have bought certain names outright, in others, they own a sizeable percentage or are a part of a consortium that has bought into the company.

A unique pink diamond which is as pink as bubble gum is up for sale in Canada and if it finds no buyer, it will be moving across the country with a wonderful collection. There are forty-five pieces of jewellery in this collection and right now it is being displayed in Edmonton at the Birks Jewellery store. Now this diamond is very special according to the spokeswoman. It is a very special pink with slight shades of purple.
The diamond weighs 10 carats and it is set as a ring in platinum. The diamond out of which it was cut was over 21 carats and it came from a South African mine, unlike most diamonds which are pink which are sourced in Australia, in the Argyle mines. If you were to take a look at the number of pink diamonds that have been auctioned through Christies, you’ll find there were only eighteen of them that weighed over ten carats in all of three hundred years. So this platinum pink diamond ring is really special.
So what will it sell for? A few years ago, a pink diamond which was similar was sold for over £1.4 million. So this should fetch as much, if not more. Obviously, it will go to some collector who values its uniqueness and appreciates its worth. The diamond has been put up for sale by a collector who wishes to remain anonymous. Very few celebrities have been fortunate enough to wear pink diamond engagement rings as it is so rare. So this piece of jewellery is sure to find a home where it will be very valued. It will be one lucky woman who does get to own this ring.

He finds things for people with his metal detector which makes them very happy. That’s what Dave Sheldon from Kihei in Hawaii does for a living and he enjoys it. The ocean, he feels, is ever-changing unlike the soil and this is what makes finding things more challenging. The currents keep changing the ocean bed unlike the sand where anything lost in it just goes deeper. His company, called Dave’s Metal Detecting has, so far, found more than six hundred lost items in the sea bed and he says that most of them are wedding rings – men’s wedding rings at that.
In 2004, Dave was called to search for a platinum diamond engagement ring. The girl had just got engaged on the beach and she was admiring the ring when a large wave hit and she lost her ring. Dave found no sign of it. Then, in 2007, he found the ring and he realised just whose it was. And he was so happy to be able to give it to the couple just before Valentine’s Day that year.
It all began when Dave asked for help by a lifeguard friend to find some jewellery on the beach and off he went with his snorkelling gear. That is when he realised that it could be his career and he invested in metal detecting equipment and set up shop. Recently, he found a class ring and looking at the date, realised that it was over fifty years old. So he called the school and they found the lady it belonged to – she is in her seventies and so thrilled to be reunited with the ring. Dave has found a lot of other items too – notably, a 4 carat diamond ring, spectacles and dentures.

That’s a long time for a diamond ring to be away, lost and then get found and not just that, find its way back to the rightful owner. And when it does, hopes springs eternal in all our breasts. That things which are lost can be found again. This particular case happened in Idaho in the US when Mechelle accidentally flushed her wedding ring down the toilet and though she called the city officials at once to tell them about it, no ring showed up. No one thought they would even find that ring so they didn’t even keep the woman’s contact information.
And then, a year and a half later, one of the men that she had talked with when she had lost the diamond wedding ring found it. Two of the workers were cleaning the sewer when they suddenly spotted the ring. The local TCV stations and some of the bigger ones too reported the news and someone who knew Mechelle happened to see it and called her. The moment she heard just where they had found it, she just knew that it was her diamond ring they were talking about. It is a 7-diamond, 3-carat ring and though she had got insurance and a replacement, she felt it wasn’t the same.
She and the family were no longer living in Kuna where they had stayed for eight years but had now moved to another town. Meanwhile the officials had got a number of calls from people who were in Kina or who had visited and had lost their rings. Mechelle hardly slept that night and the next day, they left for Kuna, stopping at the jewellers to get a picture of the ring as well as the documents. As soon as the officials saw the picture, they knew the rightful owner had come. Mechelle gladly returned the insurance and the replacement ring and she’s thrilled to have her old ring back. Especially as she and her husband are celebrating their 25th anniversary in two months.

What can you say about a man whose partner lunged into him with a kitchen knife, injured him and he still loves her and wants to marry her? Self-destructive or true love? Well, that’s what happened at the Hull Crown Court recently. Last year, the judge had pronounced a woman guilty of getting upset with her partner, losing control and then sticking a kitchen knife into him. Obviously, she was arrested while he was badly injured. The knife had damaged his colon, a kidney and his pancreas besides causing a lot of bleeding. The couple had come back home after a night out last year, they had been drinking and the woman just stabbed him in the back while he was asleep. The sentence for a crime like this usually is over nine years but because he chose to forgive her, the sentence was reduced to just three years. But the man says he has forgiven her and wants to marry her and recently asked the judge for leniency.
So what prompted him to buy that engagement ring? It’s a beautiful white gold diamond engagement ring by the way. Is violence just another facet of passion and was that why he was able to get over this terrible hurt? He wanted to go show her the ring in prison but the judge did not allow him to do that. His lawyer took it in and had it fitted for her. Obviously the way he felt had a lot to do with the judge’s leniency in this case. Yes, the man felt the judge was being very fair and he feels that she should be out in a year.
What is it that makes people forgive so generously when they are in love? Here was a man who could have died from the knife wound but he still loves her and believes that they can have a future together. He had to be in hospital for three months to recover from his injury but he still loves her. He loves her enough to go out and get her that engagement ring and wait for her to come out of prison so they can get married. That really is the kind of love that will last through better or worse.

It’s been years since they have been together and there have been numerous instances that looked like they were going to tie the knot. But it never happened. They even made statements that their kids would like to see them married so the press waited and waited but this power couple never did come up to scratch. Till now. It looks like it’s official, what with his manager making the announcement but adding that there was no date set for the wedding yet. Oh, to be a celeb and have the media men hanging on to every word, every look, every inflection to try and decipher when the big day would be.
So, as always, the focus is the ring and we are told that Brad designed the custom made diamond engagement ring for his beautiful partner of so many years. She was seen out with him with a huge diamond ring on her finger – yes, the one that matters – and the speculation proved right for once. Apparently he was a part of every stage of the planning, choosing, designing and making of the ring. The design house is Procop and the couple has ordered jewellery from them before.
For the six children, this is a dream come true – for the older ones at least. They have been pestering the couple to make things legal because they want a ‘happily every after’ ending just like in their favourite movies. Well, it looks like their wish is about to come true. Whatever else might be said about them, the two care deeply about their many children and they have both said that they find it tough to say No to them. Well, they did get her to say a Yes to Brad!

Roses, wine, candlelight – you’d think engagement rings stood for Romance with a capital ‘R’. Well, they probably do – but delve into their history and you’ll find that romance wasn’t really anywhere in the picture when engagement rings were born, so to speak. They were the sign of a contract and their history is more economic that romantic. While young lovers with stars in their eyes might find that a terrible jolt, the story itself is very fascinating.
Apparently, the diamond engagement ring started off as being insurance. Time was when a man was betrothed to a girl and married her. If he didn’t, he was committing a ‘breach of promise to marry’. It really was a law and it allowed women to be able to sue the men who promised them marriage and walked away. In the 40s – maybe due to the wartime situation, many couples felt that being engaged meant they could also get intimate. If the man then broke the engagement, it meant the woman was compromised and with a high degree of importance attached to the woman being a virgin, obviously, she needed compensation for losing what was considered to be necessary for a bride. Then, with women getting more emancipated and with divorce becoming more common, the law became obsolete and the diamond engagement ring had to find a new raison d’etre.
It happened of course, with the De Beers campaign and the diamond ring became every woman’s must-have. It began to embody all the beauty of courtship and a proposal. From what was an economic worth, it grew to encompass what was beautiful and intangible about love and romance. Never mind how many times a woman gets engaged or married, there’s something about a diamond engagement ring that will always bring out a youthful romance in her. It’s a tradition that grew out of another but it looks like it is going to stay for a long time.

Katie Price’s beau has announced that they are engaged and while she hasn’t officially confirmed it, he says that he has put a ring on their relationship – literally. Their relationship has been a roller coaster ride – to say the least and they had split up for nearly five months before they got together this time. The Argentinean Leandro Penna and Katie got back together last month over a date that included her brother but all seems well now and they seem a very together couple – for now.
Like Leandro announced, he gave her a diamond engagement ring because they wanted to formalise their relationship this time. He says that when they split up, they missed each other so much that they felt that this was the right thing to do and so they’ve committed to each other. He also says that she is very jealous so while he would like to have taken part in the Argentina version of Strictly Come Dancing, she wouldn’t like it because it would mean they were away from each other – so he doesn’t quite know what to do.
Katie’s love life has always attracted a lot of media interest – after all, she is the country’s top Page 3 model. She has written four books on her life and she even has a single to her name. Known for her affairs and her physical assets, she has been in the limelight for a while now. So when she dates a model from Argentina who says he has given her a ring, it makes news all right.

How often do you hear of someone suffering from cancer and their partner insisting that they get married? Well, that is what has just happened to Danielle from Hamilton. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and this happened just a few months after she began going out with Daniel, who had just come back as a war hero from Iraq. It’s hard for anyone to face that kind of news, especially when you’ve just met the love of your life. But Daniel didn’t listen to what she had to say and went ahead with wedding plans.
He first proposed after she had been through her chemotherapy and was getting better and they had gone off on a holiday to Egypt. He gave her a ring charm and when she joked about it, he got down on his knee and asked her to marry him with a diamond solitaire engagement ring. A few months later, he slipped a wedding ring onto her finger, dressed in his uniform, wearing all his medals.
They went to the Maldives for their honeymoon and Danielle cannot get over how he has stood by her through it all. Daniel got Danielle a puppy when they got back and the new bride just cannot be anything but touched that she has so much love wrapped around her – from her husband and her family and now, her little puppy, Ollie.

His name is Andrew Diamond and he’s unearthed a rare find all right with his metal detector. He’s been an enthusiast for a while now and it while he was treasure-hunting on a farmer’s field that he came across something that he would never have imagined could be such a treasure. The field had just been harvested and Diamond was going over it to see if he could detect any metal objects when he realised that there was something that was, as he called it, conductive. He began to dig at the spot and a few inches under the ground, he unearthed this ring.
The ring isn’t a diamond ring – it is a ring Diamond found in the field. It is made of silver and has a figure of a woman with an orange stone set in it. It is a full figure of a woman and experts believe that the figure is that of Fortuna, the Roman goddess of good fortune and luck. Well, luck certainly smiled on Diamond when he found that treasure. It has been estimated to be around two thousand years old or at least designed and fashioned between the first and second centuries and it will soon be put on show at the Leeds Museum.
According to British law, any treasure that is over three hundred years old belongs to the country but the finders will be rewarded. In this case, the reward will be split between Diamond and the farmer who owns the field. The estimate of how much the ring is worth will be done by a special committee that will be appointed by the British Museum. Never would Diamond have imagined that while he was pursuing his hobby, he would come by such a valuable find.

A very ingenious plan and it is being done on Facebook – where else? The competition has just started and it is being run by a well known British jeweller. The whole contest is very 007-ish, especially the video where the jeweller is shown with his dog, turning around in is chair and talking into camera. No, not a cat like in the James Bond movie but it is a parody and the jeweller jokes that he could well win the Oscar for his performance. The contest is very simple – it is an interactive designing and making of a ring with everyone participating having a say in it. It begins with the base design and depending on how many choose, the base will be selected.
The ring could be a diamond ring or a ring with any other stone. It could be made of any metal and the design could be very conservative and classic or it could be bizarre and modern. Whatever the ring turns out to be will be up to the Facebook users who are participating in the contest. The great thing is, everyone who takes part stands a chance to win the ring. Over a few weeks, the ring will slowly come into being and at the end, there will be a lucky draw that decides who gets the ring.
The jeweller in question has also designed the very exclusive Diamond Jubilee Ring which is being sold to retailers across the country now. The diamond ring for the Diamond Jubilee has been made with sixty diamonds to commemorate the sixty years that the Queen has been the monarch. It’s been a long reign and the special diamond ring will be quite in line with the gala events that are being planned to celebrate this milestone.