Wednesday 17 November 2010

Londoner pays world record price of £29 million for pink diamond

In Geneva yesterday Sotheby’s auctioned off a very rare 24.78 carat pink diamond and it went for a world record price.

The bidding war for Lot 550 was won by billionaire British diamond dealer Laurence Graff, who paid a hammer price of 40,500,000 Swiss francs (more...)

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Friday 12 November 2010

Ralph Lauren scale new heights

Every now and then those of us who are scrabbling around in the foothills of luxury marketing have to cast our eyes upwards to see how the big beasts are slugging it out up there in the rarified air of the Himalayan peaks.

Now is one of those moments (more...)

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Wednesday 3 November 2010

Gem Diamonds unearths another whopper in Lesotho

This is starting to become a bit of a habit: Gem Diamonds have unearthed another whopper from their Letšeng mine in the African kingdom of Lesotho.

It was only a few weeks ago that an exceptional 196 carat white diamond was recovered at Letšeng, and they have followed this up by announcing today that a remarkable 185 carat rough white diamond was recovered (more...)

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Midweek diamond thrills for ladies of London

I’ve been a busy little bee today, ferrying diamonds around London for a couple of lovely ladies who are wearing our sparklers to various corporate events over the next few days.

It’s true that most of our customers are brides who don’t want to fake it on their wedding day – they absolutely must wear diamonds! – but that doesn’t mean that our jewellery isn’t suitable for other events too (more...)

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Record prices paid for diamonds in Sotheby’s Hong Kong sale

The global recession seems to have bypassed Hong Kong as records tumbled at Sotheby’s ‘Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite’ autumn sale last week.

The total auction was expected to fetch around US$47 million but came in 15% ahead of that target with total sales of $54 million (more...)

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