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2025 Oscars Jewelry Pics
2025 Oscars: 12 Jewelry Looks We Loved By Melissa Rose Bernardo | March 03, 2025 “Diamonds Are Forever,” sang Doja Cat in a musical tribute to 60 years of James Bond films at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Los...
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Opaque Jewelry Is So Of-the-Moment and Rubies Even Better!
Opaque Jewelry Is So Of-the-Moment If you haven’t noticed, opaque gems are having quite the renaissance. They may have last rode a popularity wave in 2018 (not so long ago, yet ages ago), when our Amy Elliott named malachite and pink...
read moreTaylor Swift New Kind of Jewelry
I have come late to the Taylor Swift party, but thanks to my daughter and niece, it didn’t take long for me to get on board. We saw and loved The Eras Tour movie, although I certainly didn’t recognize all of the songs. But if I watch again, I will know...
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A Diamond Worth Talking About
The Motswedi: A Diamond Worth Talking About January 18, 2025 by Mark Reyes, G.G. About Mark Reyes, G.G. Mark Reyes is the Lead Instructor for IGI North America, designing and teaching diamond, gem and jewelry grading workshops, seminars &...
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The 50 Greatest Watches of All Time -2024
December 26, 2024 The 50 Greatest Watches of All Time We surveyed industry experts and top-tier collectors to compile the ultimate list of luxury wristwatches. Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre—of course, timepieces from...
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Mozambique Rubies Pricing Soar
The value of US Republic's Resources Mozambique’s “rough” ruby cut/polish transaction just increased exponentially (as did its per carat selling price), …This, as result of …“Cyclone Chido devastates Mozambique” and, … “flooded mines …”. “Cyclone Chido devastates...
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From Audemars Piguet to Patek Philippe, Jacob & Co. and more, the celebs this week brought the horological heat.
December 7, 2024 The 7 Best Watches of the Week, From Gordon Ramsay’s Patek Philippe to Will Smith’s Jacob & Co. Published on December 7, 2024 Getty, Patek Philippe, Jacob & Co. This week’s line-up starts with British celebrity chef Gordon...
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The 8 Best Watches From the Upcoming TimeForArt Auction in N.Y.C.
The charitable auction, TimeForArt, hosted by Phillips is chock full of incredible one-off watches. We sent the best photographer we know to shoot them and help us select the best of the lots. Published on December 5, 2024 Phillips The fate of the once-popular...
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2024 Spectrum, Cutting Edge Award Winners
AGTA Names 2024 Spectrum, Cutting Edge Award Winners Last weekend in Dallas, the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) unveiled the winners of its Spectrum and Cutting Edge Awards for 2024 and presented hundreds of colored gemstone entrants in the...
read moreRapport Diamonds Current Comments.
May 9, 2024 Rapport Comments News: Slow sales impacting prices. IF-VS weakening. 1 ct. RAPI -3.5% in Apr.; prices of round, 1 ct., D-H, SI +1%. Finest-cut fancy shapes strong in larger sizes. Marquises moving well. India manufacturing fewer goods...
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