The Diamond Watch that effortlessly turns into an exquisite ring
Created by Graff Diamonds a London based jewellers founded in 1960.
Fascination is a diamond encrusted masterpiece piece which features a 38.13 ct pear shaped diamond which can be worn as a ring or inserted into a diamond encrusted watch bracelet with 152.96 cts of white diamonds.
Graff uses only the very finest diamonds, resulting in the creation of the most fabulous jewels in the world.
The Fascination will be on show at the BaselWorld watch fair in Switzerland, which begins tomorrow.
IIa Technologies created a 3.04 ct synthetic white diamond, which is the largest polished laboratory grown diamond disclosed.
The company expects 25 to 30 per cent growth in consumer demand for laboratory grown diamonds.
The research centre based in Singapore will use the diamond greenhouse to grow Type IIa colourless diamonds, and will continue an industry wide adoption of advanced technologies like additive manufacturing, lasers and optics, and robotics.
On Monday Apple unveiled its new smart watch to consumers, it is available in two sizes.
Starting at $350.00 USD for the entry level model, and rising up to $10.000 for the 18K gold version the new iwatch is set to change the way we look at watches.
While 10.000 will get you the standard 18K gold, for the best you will need to add $65.000.
The custom Apple watch has multiple rows of diamonds set around the face and strap.
Is this $75,000 USD diamond Apple iwatch is the ultimate smart watch?
Fancy coloured diamonds are fast overtaking the colourless white gems as a safe long term investment option.
The Fancy Colour Research Foundation (FCRF) latest research shows that fancy colour diamonds have outperformed white diamonds prices.
Natural fancy diamonds come in many different colours including the rare blue, orange, pink, red, and greens are achieving higher prices on the international market.
The FCRF has seen striking changes in the value of fancy coloured diamonds over the past. The data revealed patterns between investment and world economies.
Recently an 8.41 carat vivid purple pink diamond was sold for a record $17.10 million, and a 14.82 carat orange diamond sold for a world record $35.5 million.
Rapaport has announced that will be opening its melee auction in the Hong Kong International Diamond show, the auction consists of premium quality diamond parcels in all shapes.
Limited spaces are available and viewing is by appointment only. Rapaport will auction the record 98,000 carats of diamonds.
Director of Global Trading, Ezi Rapaport, said "all eyes are on the Hong Kong show as it will play a determining role for the trend in Quarter two”.
Causes of colour in heat treated brown diamonds and synthetic brown diamonds are similar to treated pink diamonds.
In natural diamond the colour is related to a lattice imperfection. This can be mimicked in synthetic or treated diamond by a variety of treatments including annealing, heating or irradiating. The heat and pressure or irradiation can result in the lattice deviation resulting in the brown or pink colour.
Synthetic brown diamond is created by compressing graphite under extreme pressure and heat to above 1500 Celsius. The treatments were perfected in several laboratories in Russia, United States and China.
Lazare Kaplan Internationals Belgium subsidiary Pegasus Overseas Ltd marketed the General Electric processed diamonds under the name GE POL or in the USA as Bellataire.
This led to a technique for creating, or treating brown diamonds into higher valued colours like yellow or colourless diamond.
The disclosure of the treatment is noted by the “GEPOL" inscribed on the girdles of every treated diamond.
Brown diamonds are often marketed with expensive sounding names like Cognac, Champagne or Chocolate diamonds. Natural brown diamonds are a cheap alternative to more expensive colours.
The flooding of synthetic diamonds in the industry is threatening long term sustainability of Rough and Polished.
Bruce Cleaver Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs said “duds” were threatening profitability. And the impact of synthetic diamonds is more severe when manufactures don’t disclose Synthetics to the market.
APA estimates total market value of synthetic diamonds at $9 billion.
The Surat Diamond Association detected synthetic diamonds in a parcel belonging to two diamond traders in Varachha the world’s largest diamond cutting and polishing centre.
The parcel was sold by Ramesh Mavani a diamond merchant, who had purchased it from one Chandu Sheta.
The Natural Diamond Monitoring Committee is dealing with the investigation.
A committee was set up in 2013 after a huge quantity of synthetic diamonds was found mixed in with natural diamond parcels in Mumbai.
De Beers Group to invest around $3bn over ten years on diamond mining operations in its key South African mine Venetia.
De Beers reported operating profit of $1.4bn USD up 36% year on year, due to higher demand and increased production.
Diamond production was up 5% to 32.6m carats, largely to the production of Debswana the Botswana mine.
Anglo American owns 85% of De Beers
A rare Emerald shape 100.20 ct diamond, originally mined in South Africa by De Beers will showcase the Sotheby’s Auction.
The diamond is one of only six of equal quality ever to be sold at auction, and could sell for $25 million.
The size, quality of the cut and colour make this gem extremely rare because the stone is type IIa stone D colour, internally flawless.
Original polished out of rough weighing over 200 cts.
