Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

Can it really be possible? After all, they do say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, not money in the bank. But Australian women seem to want a financially secure future before they begin to think about engagement rings and diamond jewellery. And here we were thinking that women will do anything to get a diamond ring – the bigger the diamond, the better!

It is not as though Australian women don’t like diamond rings or expensive jewellery. It’s just that they seem to have their priorities right. They would rather get a wonderful diamond ring from someone they know they can trust to look after them well financially than from someone whose finances aren’t so strong.

This trait seemed to be evident thanks to a poll where over 70% of women said that a finally secure man was what they wanted first before they could begin to think of accepting a diamond engagement ring from him. They also said that they wouldn’t mind a ring that wasn’t very expensive, preferring to use the rest towards a house or a honeymoon. So men who can’t afford that bank balance are going to find it tough to find someone on whose finger they can put a diamond engagement ring.

It looks like diamonds are becoming popular as gifts on Mother’s Day. From diamond rings to diamond pendants to diamond earrings – it looks like Mother’s Day is becoming more and more special as the years go by. No longer are diamonds only a young girl’s best friend – older women are worthy of being gifted diamonds too.

So many people around the world have been telling their mothers today just how special they are and they have let diamonds do the talking. There’s no gift quite like a diamond ring after all.

The world’s largest cutting and processing centre when it comes to diamonds is in Surat, India. It looks like in roughly 15 years, there’s going to be a drastic drop in the number of diamonds that they will be getting to cut and polish. This observation was made by none other that the managing director of De Beers, the last word in diamonds.

Why does he think this is going to happen? This could be because of the phenomenal rise in diamond sales both in China and India. In lands where a diamond engagement ring was unheard of, today, more and more girls getting engaged are expecting and getting a diamond ring for the engagement. With a trend like this, there’s not going to be too many diamonds going around soon.

There might have been a recession last year but you wouldn’t think it with the kind of fine jewellery Bonham’s sold at its sale last year. This year will begin with the sale of a 14.6 carat diamond pendant costing £300,000 – at least that’s what they hope it will fetch at their sale at the end of April.

The diamonds on sale this year are exceptional. Among them are four E colour solitaire diamond rings which are absolutely flawless. There is also a gem set collar, a diamond bracelet and a bracelet with emeralds and onyx.

The Dubai sale that is coming up next month is going to be one of a kind for Christie’s. It is going to feature a range of jewellery with unique gemstones and designs from some of the leading international jewellery houses. One of the pieces is an over 26 carat rectangular yellow diamond while another is an over 17 carat rectangular D colour diamond in a ring. It will also include, for the first time, five jewellers from the Middle East who will be showcasing their designs with these other pieces of jewellery.

The five jewellers are André Marchais, Selim Mouzannar, Sevan Bicakci, Noor Fares and Nadine Kanso. Most of the designs that will be on show from them will be modern and contemporary. The designers come from all over the region – from Beirut, Turkey, Lebanon, etc. Some of them belong to traditional jeweller families.

A specialist diamond company employee was attacked as he was stepping out of his car and he was relieved of four hundred and fifty gold and diamond rings. Apparently his car had been followed by four men in a Toyota Avensis and when he alighted from his car at Park Street, one of the men came up to him, hit him and took away his holdall in which the rings were.

The attackers were said to look like East Europeans in their late twenties, wearing jeans as well as jackets and one of them had a bandana on. While the employee wasn’t really hurt, he was in a state of shock. The police have warned the public against buying any cheap rings that anyone should try to sell to them.

If a diamond is almost perfect, then it will probably be snapped up to be used in the production of lasers rather than find its way to be made into a diamond ring. While diamonds are highly in demand for engagement rings, they are also used like mirrors in laser technology. While very high quality mirrors used to be what the scientists relied on, they have since discovered that flawless diamonds could do the job as well, if not better – so we should be prepared to see some of the best diamonds heading laser-wards.

The first diamond laser has been built by the physics team of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. According to them, diamonds have the potential to be very powerful lasers because of their ability to transmit heat and light effectively. This breakthrough seems to have opened the door to a new era in laser technology.

There were diamonds dripping and dazzling everywhere – from fingers, ears, wrists, necks – it looked like everyone on the red carpet wanted to show off their diamonds. After all, this is the biggest night in Hollywood and it is watched by people all over the world – viewers who sit glued to their seats watching their heroes and heroines dressed to the hilt in their jewellery and finery.

Diamonds cut across all ages – all that was different was the designs – while the younger ones preferred a more modern style, the older ones opted for a more antique style. There were white, black, brown and champagne diamonds that lit up stunning designer jewellery and all the big names in diamond designers were well and truly represented there. So much dazzle in one night!

Last year, there was a sharp drop in diamond shares because people weren’t buying as many diamond rings or diamond jewellery as before. The common man tightened his belt with the onset of the recession and the first thing to be hit was the luxury items, seeing a drop in diamond stock rates. Now suddenly, all that looks set for change and people are going out and buying diamond rings and jewellery again with the market recovery. So diamond stocks are expected to reflect that and start going up soon too.

Right now might be a good time to invest in diamond stocks as a lot of diamond mining companies are being traded at much less than their actual value – something that won’t happen for too long. With demand of diamonds slated to go up in the months to come, the stocks will too. According to the experts, investing in companies that are already producing diamonds rather than ones in the exploration stage might be a good idea.

More and more men seem to think that it’s only fair that they get an engagement ring too. And if it’s a diamond ring, all the better. For one thing, men are wearing a lot more jewellery today and for another, why should only the man do the spending, seems to be the sentiment.

For too long perhaps, men have done all the spending, even the very expensive engagement ring. However, with women earning as well, it’s time, men feel, that they, too, start paying and what better way to begin that with an expensive ring. According to famous jeweller H. Samuel, there’s a steadily increasing demand for men’s engagement rings today – also called ‘mengagement rings’. So we’re guessing that more and more women will start proposing to men now.

All jewellery made of palladium will have to be hallmarked in the UK and from the 1st of January this year, that rule has come into effect if the jewellery contains anything more than one gram of palladium. Here in the UK, it has been possible to keep the standard of metals high thanks to this compulsory requirement of hallmarking.

For years now, silver, gold and platinum have been hallmarked and now it’s the turn of palladium which is gaining in popularity. It looks a lot like platinum but it is nowhere as expensive so hallmarking it removes the possibility of it being passed off for the more expensive metal. The hallmarking will have three things – the sponsor’s mark, the mark of how pure it is and the town mark.