Celebrity Jewelry

Scarlett Johansson Engagement Ring 

After confirming her engagement to Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson slipped on her diamond solitaire ring before attending the Gala. The white/silver shimmer of her ring, her bracelet and the clutch she carried looked perfect against her Dolce & Gabbana gown.

Scarlett Johansson's engagement ring finger flashed a large diamond solitaire at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Annual Costume Institute Gala on May 5, 2008. Fiancé Ryan Reynolds wasn't at the event. The gown in the background is by Dolce & Gabbana.

 

 

Nicole Kidman Wearing Diamond Sautoir Necklace

Nicole Kidman's rope-like sautoir necklace is reportedly set with 7600+ diamonds of different types, including rough, faceted, and polished stones. The piece was designed by L'Wren Scott and overall it contains about 1400 carats of diamonds. 

Amy Adams Carrying Fred Leighton Bag and Wearing Proenza Schouler Gown

Amy Adams wore a deep-green satin gown by Proenza Schouler. Her tiny gold Fred Leighton bag was a perfect match for Amy's look, even though she wasn't carrying anything inside of it. 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Klum in Long Earrings and Red Galliano Gown

Heidi Klum's custom-made Galliano gown will be given away in the Diet Coke Red Dress Sweepstakes, part of an awareness program between CocaCola and The Heart Truth campaign to raise awarness about heart disease in women.

Ms. Klum's long earrings were a combination of pinks and reds to sync with her dress and the pink bag she carried. I heard a few commentators dissing that purse because it didn't "match" the gown. Maybe that was the point. She looked gorgeous.

 

 

 

Diamond Cars

Bugatti Veyron Diamond Edition Collectible Car Miniature

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The impressive miniature of  Bugatti Veyron scaled at 1:18 was designed by Stuart Hughes in collaboration with Robert Gulpen. The luxury gadgets designer and jeweler and the specialist in collectible car miniatures created the Bugatti Veyron Diamond Edition using 24ct solid gold, platinum and 7.2ct single-cut flawless diamond.
It is available in a limited edition of only three pieces and each car was developed in about two months in high detail, weighing 7Kg.

Bugatti Veyron Diamond Edition miniature cars come with certification of authenticity, aluminum case, glass house and documentation photos of the manufacturing process.

diamond car special order for prince walid bin talal...it costs US$.4.8 million

Prince Walid is a mover and shaker, owns a part of Fox News, largest shareholder in CitiGroup inc., the world's largest bank, owner of The Savoy in Paris, large shareholder in AOL. UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that this car couldn't possibly be totally covered in diamonds and only cost $4.8 million. So I did a search and found a blog post about an Austrian company that makes vehicles covered in a mix of diamonds and Swarovski crystals. Although Karl Seelos as head of the team (said) that the customers remain anonymous and (he was) unwilling to reveal the real prices, obviously the Prince had to brag about his 'diamond car'

White Gold Bentley

The 10 Most Extravaganza Diamonds

The Allnatt Diamond : $ 3 Millions
This diamond is named after Major Alfred Ernest Allnatt. He was one of the holders of the diamond. The Allnatt diamond has size of 101.29 carat (20.258 g) with a cushion cut. The diamond color is rated as fancy vivid Yellow by the Gemological Institute of America. No one know precisely where the diamond was found. But some expert say that the diamond was found where the De Beers premier diamond mine now located.

The Moussaieff Red Diamond : $ 7 Millions

The Moussaieff Red Diamond is 5.11 carats (1.022 g) diamond with triangular brilliant cut that rated as Fancy Red in colour by the Gemologial Institute of America (GIA). Although Moussaieff is relatively small compared to other expensive diamond, this is the largest fancy red ever rated by GIA.

The Heart of Eternity : $16 Millions

The Heart of Eternity is a 27.64 carats (5.528 g) diamond with a color rated as Fancy Vivid Blue by the Gemological Institue of America. This diamond is very rare class of colored diamond. It was cut by the Steinmetz group before sold to De Beers Group. The diamond itself was found in premier diamond mine in South Africa.

Wittelsbach Diamond : $ 16.4 Millions

The Wittelsbach diamond (Der Blaue Wittelsbacher) is a 35.36 carats (7.11 g) blue diamond with size of 40 mm in diameter with 8.29 mm in depth and VS 2 in clarity. It was become part of both Austrian and Bavarian crown jewels, with color and clarity has been compared to the Hope Diamond (you can see below on No. 4).

Wittelsbach diamond

The Steinmetz Pink : $ 25 Millions

The Steinmetz Pink is 59.60 carats (11.92 grams) of diamond that rated as Vivid Pink by the Gemological Institute of America. It’s the largest known diamond that given a color as Fancy vivid pink ever. The Steinmitz Pink was displayed as part of Smithsonian’s “The Splendor of Diamons” exhibition.

5. De Beers Centenary Diamond: $ 100 Millions

The De Beers Centenary Diamond were classified as D levels by the Gemological Institute of America. It’s the highest grade of a diamond that colorless and internally and externally flawless. The diamond itself is 273.85 carats (54.77 grams) in weight. This diamond is the 3rd largest diamond has been produced by De Beer’s Premier Mine.

De Beers Centenary Diamond

4. The Hope Diamond : $350 Millions
The hope diamond is 45.52 carats (9.10 grams) large diamond that now located in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. The diamond looks blue in color to the naked eye because the number of traces of boron in the crystal structure but It shine a red phosphor under ultraviolet light.

The Hope Diamond

3. The Cullinan : $ 400 Millions
The Cullinan Diamond is 3,106,75 carats (621.35 grams) diamond and is the largest rough gem quality diamond ever found in the world. After polished it become Cullinan I or Star Africa first and at 530.2 carats (106.0 grams) is the largest diamond in the world until 1985 with the Golden Jubilee of 545.67 carats (109.13 grams) from the same premier Mine.

The Cullinan Diamond

2. The Sancy Diamond : (Unestimated, Priceless)
The Sancy diamond is 55.23 carat (11.05 grams) of pale yellow diamond that once was famous as the belonging of the Great Moguls. It’s believed that the diamond is Indian origin. This is the first large diamonds to be cut with symmetrical facets. The stone is also unusual because it has no pavilion – just a pair of crowns, one on the other. This historical diamond is now kept in the French Crown Jewel collection housed at the Louvre.

The Sancy Diamond

1. Koh-I-Noor : (Unestimated, Priceless)
Koh-I-Noor means as “Mountain of Light” from Persian. It’s a 105 carat (21.6 grams) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world. The Koh-I-Noor was originated at Golconda in the Andhra Pradesh state of India. It was owned by various Sikh, Mughal and Persian rulers that fought each other from time to time. The stone was found to measure 36.00 × 31.90 × 13.04 mm. The gem remains the property of the British crown and is kept in HM Tower of London and it’s a popular tourist attraction.

The Most Expensive Things In TheWorld

 Vacherin Constantin’s Tour de l’Ile – $1.5 million
Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin marked its 250th anniversary in 2005 with the world’s most complicated wrist watch—the Tour de l’Ile. The watch is so complicated that it required over 10,000 hours of research to create. Its name refers to one of the historical sites of the venerable company, located next to the current Maison Vacheron Constantin on the Quai de l’Ile.  Only produced in a limited edition of seven pieces, this expensive watch is also the most complicated double-face watch. Tour de l’Ile is made with a totally original combination of horological complications (that is, features beyond the simple telling of the time of day) and astronomical indications composing a list of sixteen different points including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, a tourbillion device, the equation of time and a representation of the night sky.
At $1.5 million, this is one of the world’s most expensive watch produced in recent years.

Chopard’s $25 million watch

Yes, you read that right: twenty-five million dollars. This gaudy timepiece by Chopard is adorned with three heart-shaped diamonds—a 15-carat pink diamond, a 12-carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond. For good measure, they threw in 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds to bring the total to 201 carats of diamonds. The result is something that looks rather like a geode that’s been turned inside out and dipped in lemon Kool-Aid. Add to that the fact that the size of the watch’s face must make telling time into a fun game of Where’s Waldo and you’ll see that Chopard has truly created a recipe for success.

Of course, its $25 million price tag guarantees its place as the world’s most expensive watch for years to come. (Sources: http://most-expensive.net)

Diamond Crypto Smartphone

The Diamond Crypto is the most expensive Mobile available to purchase today. The case is made with solid platimum 950 and each side has 25 half carat diamonds with 5 blue diamonds. 

Price: £692,000

 The Most Expensiva Bra ::

Inspired by the Angels Collection from Victoria’s Secret, this year’s fantasy bra is truly sent from heaven. The Fantasy Bra is the embodiment of the Victoria’s Secret Angels – with a design as dazzling and ethereal as Angels wings. The creation features 2,900 pavé-set white diamonds in 18k white gold weighing a total of 112 carats. The centerpiece of this once-in-a-lifetime piece is a stunning 70-carat, pear-shaped flawless diamond.  The bra is worth £24,250,000

Heavenly Star Bra costs $12.5 million. Studded with 1,200 Sri Lankan pink sapphires, this bra includes a 90-carat emerald cut diamond as its centerpiece. That diamond alone on this bra is worth $10.6 million. 

The Diamond Wedding Gown
(Courtesy of The Diamond Blog).

A wedding is an expensive occasion for even the most humble bride and groom. Imagine, then, the wedding that includes the most expensive wedding dress in the world. The Diamond Wedding Gown is a collaboration of Renee Strauss, owner of a highly successful bridal salon in Beverly Hills, and Martin Katz, who deals in rare jewels. Featuring 150 carats of diamonds, the dress is valued at US $12 million.
The world’s most expensive wedding gown was unveiled at the premier Luxury Brands Lifestyle Bridal show in February of 2006. Later in the year, Dubai’s Fashion & Diamonds show also featured a gown touted as the world’s most expensive wedding dress. Yumi Katsura’s design, however, is only valued at $8.5 million. Despite being only the second most expensive wedding dress, it features 1,000 pearls and one of the world’s only two 5 carat white gold diamonds

The Famous Celeb Engagement Rings

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, U$. 5 Million Engagement Wedding

Richard Burton purchased this 69.42-carat diamond in 1972 to celebrate his wife’s 40th birthday. It was dubbed the “world’s first million-dollar diamond” and named the “Cartier,” and later shown on display at Cartier stores in New York and Chicago. After Burton and Taylor’s divorce, Burton auctioned the piece off for $5 million. The money was used to build a hospital in Botswana.

Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez, $1.2 Million.

Before paying $500K for the his future wife Jennifer Garner’s ring, Ben Affleck paid $1.2 million for Jennifer Lopez’s 6.1-carat Harry Winston piece.

The most expensive diamond rings

A rare pink diamond

1.  A rare pink diamond ring:
Price: $10.8 million
An amazing pink diamond ring that is studded with five carats of diamond is the world’s most expensive diamond ring. The ring was auctioned in Honk Kong for a record $10.8 million.





  

2. The vivid blue diamond ring :
Price $/ 7.9 million
Next in the most expensive list is the vivid blue diamond ring that was sold at the Sotheby's auction. The ring weighs six carats and has a beautiful blue diamond. The diamonds are set on a platinum ring with emerald cut diamonds on both the sides of the blue diamond

3. Oval Cut Diamond Ring
Price: $4.2 million
A pure white diamond ring that fetched $4.2 million at Christie’s Important Jewels sale in New York is next on the list. An oval cut diamond that weighs 46.51-carat is placed in a platinum ring and has VVS2 diamond mounted with E color clarity.

4. Elizabeth Taylor Diamond Ring:

Price  $ 1.3 million
This platinum diamond ring is from the Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry House, Los Angeles and costs $ 1.3 million. The stunning oval diamond ring weighs 5.98 carats and is surrounded by 3.96 carats of round diamonds making a flower around it.

5. The Beers Platinum Diamond Ring:
Price : $. 1.83 million
Price: $ 1.3 million
This platinum diamond ring is from the Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry House, Los Angeles and costs $ 1.3 million. The stunning oval diamond
ring weighs 5.98 carats and is surrounded by 3.96 carats of round diamonds making a flower around it.

6. Novo Yellow Diamond Ring:
Price: $. 1.35 million
The yellow color of the ring is what makes it different from other regular rigs. This Novo Yellow diamond ring was sold by Tiffany’s for $1.35 million. The diamond weighs 25.27 karats and is set in a yellow gold platinum ring.

The Unique of Gemstones

Agate: The gemstone Agate is distinct from other forms of gemstones and is one of the widest source of colours chalcedony. Agate occurs in a variety of forms Agate has many colors. Agate mentioned in the Bible as being one of the stones of fire given to Moses and set in the breastplate of Aaron. A variety of agate, sardonyx is one of the twelve gemstones set in the foundations of the city walls of Jerusalem. Agate was especially valued during medieval times when one of the more outlandish uses was to bind an agate to each horn of an ox to ensure a good harvest. The danger here is that your agated beasts of burden may then become invisible and a little hard to find. Agate is believed to cure insomnia, offer protection from bad dreams, ensure pleasant dreams, protect against danger and promote strength and healing. The most famous of the european Agate mines where in Germany in Idar-oberstein these mines have now been worked out but can be chased back as far 16th century. The most important depsoits today are Brazil, and Uruguay as well as depsoits in Austrlia,China,India,Madagascar,Mexico,Mongolia,Namibia,United states as well as small depsoits being found around the world. 

Amber is fossilized tree resin (not sap), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.^[2] Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions. Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ambrite is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams. ^[3]

  

Amber now has many synthetic and many are made containing all manner of bugs creatures which would never have been able to become trapped in the resin. One of the most famous things made from amber was the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. An intire chamber decorated and made of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. This room and what happened to it are one of the biggest mysterys of world war two the room was stolen by the germans and shipped away and then in the chaoes of the end of the war it was hidden some say destroyed but nobody knows for sure. A copy of this room has now been made and is back in the palace. The original covered more than 55 square meters and contained over six tons of amber . Many small musems have large collections of amber and some whole musems are dedicated to it completly in the former soviet block including Latvia And Estonia.

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry. The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a- ("not") and μέθυστος methustos ("intoxicated"), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness; the ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication. It is one of several forms of quartz. Amethyst is the traditional birthstone for February.

Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz (SiO₂), containing an impurity of iron, which gives the violet color to the mineral. The hardness of the mineral is the same as quartz's, thus it is suitable for use in jewelry. Amethyst is a variety of macrocrystalline quartz that occurs in transparent pastel roses to deep purples and violets. Now days Amethyst is also availible in green this is due to heating changing the colour from purple to green.

Andesine is a silicate mineral, a member of the plagioclase feldspar solid solution series. Its chemical formula is (Ca, Na)(Al, Si)₄O₈, where Ca/(Ca + Na) (% Anorthite) is between 30%-50%. The formula may be written as Na_0.7-0.5Ca_0.3-0.5Al_1.3-1.5Si_2.7-2.5O₈.
The plagioclase feldspars are a continuous solid solution series and as such the accurate identification of individual members requires detailed optical study, chemical analysis or density measurements. Refractive indices and specific gravity increase directly with calcium content.





Andestine is a lesser know gemstone but is becoming more popular due to larger depsoits being found and worked. It comes in a range of colours from red to pink and also white, gray,yellow, and green it also ranges from opaque to transparent with the opaque the more common.

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite, chlorapatite and bromapatite, named for high concentrations of OH⁻, F⁻, Cl⁻ or Br⁻ ions, respectively, in the crystal. The formula of the admixture of the four most common endmembers is written as Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(OH,F,Cl,Br)₂, and the crystal unit cell formulae of the individual minerals are written as Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(OH)₂, Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(F)₂, Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(Cl)₂ and Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(Br)₂.

Apatite is one of a few minerals that are produced and used by biological micro-environmental systems. Apatite is the defining mineral for 5 on the Mohs scale. Hydroxyapatite, also known as hydroxylapatite, is the major component of tooth enamel and bone mineral. A relatively rare form of apatite in which most of the OH groups are absent and containing many carbonate and acid phosphate substitutions is a large component of bone material.

Fluorapatite (or fluoroapatite) is more resistant to acid attack than is hydroxyapatite. For this reason, toothpaste typically contains a source of fluoride anions (e.g. sodium fluoride, sodium monofluorophosphate). Similarly, fluoridated water allows exchange in the teeth of fluoride ions for hydroxyl groups in apatite. Too much fluoride results in dental fluorosis and/or skeletal fluorosis.

Fission tracks in apatite are commonly used to determine the thermal history of orogenic (mountain) belts and of sediments in sedimentary basins. (U-Th)/He dating of apatite is also well established for use in determining thermal histories and other, less typical applications such as paleo-wildfire dating.

Phosphorite is a phosphate-rich sedimentary rock, that contains between 18% and 40% P₂O₅. The apatite in phosphorite is present as cryptocrystalline masses referred to as collophane.

The mineral beryl is a beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate with the chemical formula Be₃Al₂(SiO₃)₆. The hexagonal crystals of beryl may be very small or range to several meters in size. Terminated crystals are relatively rare. Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities; possible colors are green, blue, yellow, red, and white. Beryl comes in a wide range of colours and is found in depsoits worldwide some of the better known varieties are Golden beryl, Goshenite, And also morganite because of this the colours also range widely as well as from opaque to transparent.

Calcite crystals are trigonal-rhombohedral, though actual calcite rhombohedra are rare as natural crystals. However, they show a remarkable variety of habits including acute to obtuse rhombohedra, tabular forms, prisms, or various scalenohedra. Calcite exhibits several twinning types adding to the variety of observed forms. It may occur as fibrous, granular, lamellar, or compact. Cleavage is usually in three directions parallel to the rhombohedron form. Its fracture is conchoidal, but difficult to obtain.
Calcite also know as limespar, limestone is found in a range of colours also ranging from transparent to translucent. It is a quite soft gem ranging at only 3 on the mohls hardness scale so great care must be taken when working with this item.

Chalcedony is the name used by gemologist for all cryptocrystalline quartz. Natural Chalcedony normally has no banding but because it is porous it is possible to dye this gem to colours not found naturally. Other well known gems that come in this group are carnelian and sard. This is normally found in either cabochon cut of sliced and polished similar to agate.

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography. Crystals is a solid substance in which the molecules, atoms, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. The word crystal is a loan from the ancient Greek word. Crystals are often symmetrically which had the same meaning, but according to the ancient understanding of crystal. 

Emerald is a variety of the mineral beryl (Be₃Al₂(SiO₃)₆) colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium. Beryl has a hardness of 7.5–8 on the 10 point Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Most emeralds are highly included, so their toughness (resistance to breakage) is classified as generally poor. The word "Emerald" is derived (via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda/Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος (smaragdos; "green gem"); its original source being either the Hebrew word אזמרגד izmargad meaning "emerald" or "green"^[ or the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning "emerald." The name could also be related to the Semitic word baraq (בָּרָק ;البُراق; "lightning" or "shine") (cf. Hebrew: ברקת bareqeth and Arabic: برق barq "lightning"). It is the same source for the names Persian (زمرّد zomorrod), Turkish (zümrüt), Sanskrit (मरकत ; marakata), Kannada (ಪಚ್ಚೆ ; Pacche), Telugu (Paccha), Georgian (ზურმუხტი; zurmukhti), Russian (изумруд; izumrud)^[4] and Armenian zmruxt.