Archive for the 'Diamonds' Category

Celebrities prefer diamond jewelry

Celebrities prefer diamond jewelry

Long, dangling diamond earrings were the outstanding diamond jewelry trend of the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards held Sunday night in Los Angeles.
As with every Hollywood awards ceremony, especially in a year when a writers strike is threatening Hollywood’s ability to perform, its biggest names came out to parade in [...]

Diamonds are forever but the price…

Diamonds may be forever. But the price you paid for them may not.
Millions of American consumers who bought diamond rings or other diamond jewelry could be in for a sizable rebate thanks to the pending settlement of a series of class-action lawsuits that accused the giant De Beers diamond company of price-fixing and monopoly practices.
Now, [...]

De Beers’ ‘Diamond Season’

The ‘Diamond Season’, an annual month-long promotional campaign organized in India by the De Beers Group Marketing (DBGM), has once again been a major driver of diamond jewelry sales in the country.
The promotion, held across six cities between December 12 and January 12, coincides with the Indian marriage season, one of the peak jewelry purchasing [...]

Best New Piece of Diamond Jewelry of 2007 - by Rosy Blue

Rosy Blue, the world’s largest diamond manufacturing company and a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of fine diamonds and jewelry, has been announced the winner of the De Beers group marketing award for the ‘Best New Piece of Diamond Jewelry of 2007’ category with the theme ‘Diamonds-Nature’s Miracle’ at the Diamond jewelry [...]

Diamonds, good for girls - bad for investors

Most holiday shoppers aren’t thinking of the investment value of what they are buying.
But William P. from the Boston area figures that as long as he’s shopping for jewelry for his wife — she’ll celebrate her 30th birthday on Christmas Eve, a week before the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary — he might as well keep [...]

Letseng Legacy - the 493 carat white diamond

Diamond mining company Gem Diamonds and the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho have named the 493-carat white diamond recovered in early September the “Letseng Legacy,” after its place of discovery.
The diamond, ranked as the world’s 18th largest rough diamond, was discovered in Lesotho’s Letseng le Terai mine. Letseng Diamonds, which is 70 percent owned [...]

A flawless blue diamond sold for $7.98 million

One of the rarest gems in the world, a flawless blue diamond, has sold for US$7.98 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, making it the most expensive gemstone in the world, per carat, sold at auction.
After intense bidding, the 6.04 carat, internally flawless blue diamond fetched $HK61.9 million, or US$1.32 million per carat. [...]