Fabergé NOT making diamond spider brooch

I love it that this is news: something isn’t happening… somebody isn’t doing something.

Last week there was speculation on the web that Fabergé was about to create a brooch, shaped like a spider with its eight legs and – of course – encrusted with glittering jewels, including diamonds. Price tags of $millions were mentioned (more...)

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We're on-trend. It's official.

I spent some time over the holiday period catching up by reading old-fashioned things like newspapers, looking for new innovations in business and predictions for 2011.

A couple of things caught my eye and sent me scurrying off around the web to find out more, because they had real relevance for the business of Diamondthrills: renting out fine diamond jewellery (more...)

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11 predictions for diamonds in 2011

We donned our comedy Nostradamus hat and peered quizzically at the tea-leaves in our crystal ball in order to conjure up 11 recklessly bold predictions for diamonds in 2011.

Following last week’s review of our Top 10 Blog posts of 2010, it’s only fair that we turn our attention to some of the diamond stories that we think we’ll be writing about in the year ahead (more...)

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Our 10 most popular Blog posts in 2010

It’s that slightly unsettling void in the calendar between Christmas and New Year when most people aren’t sure whether they should be resting, dieting, exercising, or perhaps even working.

It’s a time to glance backwards to take stock of the year just ending and to look forwards to anticipate what the New Year might bring.

And so in our own little way we’ve taken a look at the last 12 months (more...)

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Pink diamond sells for $1million per carat in New York

Another week, another auction, and so it seems, another record-breaking pink diamond goes under the hammer.

Last week saw a new Asian record with the sale of a 14.23 carat rectangular-cut ‘fancy intense’ pink diamond, known as “The Perfect Pink”, for $23.17 million (more...)

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Hope Diamond appears in its new setting

Last year we reported on the legendary Hope Diamond and a competition run by The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. to choose a new setting for the exceptional 'deep blue' gem.

The 45.52 carat Hope Diamond was donated to The Smithsonian just over 50 years ago by Harry Winston, but it has quite a history over the last 300+ years.

It was brought to Europe from India in the mid-17th century by French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (more...)

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Somerset House and Tiffany serve up their seasonal ice

The snow is coming down across London right now so it's making us feel a little bit Christmassy.

The folks over at Somerset House are getting into the Christmas mood too and they probably can't believe their luck (more...)

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