RAPAPORT… New York (April 24, 2008)– After a rigid auditing period, Gem Certification and Assurance Lab (GCAL) was awarded ISO 17025:2005 accreditation, meaning that it conforms to recognized international standards for accurate and reliable grading. Specifically, this recognition means that GCAL’s lab is rated among the most technically competent in the world.
Laboratory Accreditation Bureau [...]

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What: An Unmounted, Cushion-Cut Diamond

Weight: 39.34 carats D color, Internally Flawless, Type IIa

Where: Christie’s, New York Jewels–The New York Sale April 16, 2008

How Much: Pre-Sale Estimate:USD$6 million to USD$8 million
Final Selling Price: USD$6,873,000
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An extremely rare diamond of 39.34 carats was the clear-cut winner at the Christie’s jewelry auction this week. The cushion-cut gem sold [...]

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Leila Tai
Foliage Bracelet 18K Gold, Burma Rubies and Enamel

A packed luncheon debut of a jewelry exhibit took place this week at The Forbes Galleries in New York.
Fashion journalists and jewelry artists alike crowded the 2008 Designer Showcase, a product of the six-year-old nonprofit National Jewelry Institute.The group aims “to preserve, research, and [...]

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Madonna has turned to Chopard to create the custom diamond knuckle ring that reads “M-dolla” and the Happy Diamonds cross she wears on the cover of her new and much anticipated album “Hardy Candy.”
Designed by Chopard co-president Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele herself, the ring features 258 brilliant cut white diamonds with the signature Chopard floating diamonds in [...]

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For the girl who has everything … the sqash-ball sized diamond is the biggest to come to market for 18 years.Photo: AP

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HONG KONG (Xinhua): The largest colorless diamond seen at auction in nearly 20 years will go under the hammer on May 28 in Christie’s Hong Kong sale, officials said as it was previewed [...]

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Diamond’s unique properties may make it a match for developers of tomorrow’s quantum computers. Physicists are testing the crystal’s ability to store information in single atoms, insulate information from outside disturbances, and transmit information as light rather than through electrical currents.iStockphoto
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Diamond is cool—even at room temperature. The stiff crystalline structure that makes diamond nature’s [...]

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Today jewellery artist Reena Ahluwalia’s work,
“Bel Canto” is captured for posterity by the Belgian Post.

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Belgium : The Nice Story
AWDC (Antwerp World Diamond Center) and Belgian Post - (De Post-La Poste) have announced the release of Antverpia 2010 postage stamps, a part of the philatelistic program of the Belgian Post.
These stamps announce a European championship and [...]

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Fred Leighton Jewelry on Madison Avenue, New York.

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Put a Diamond Under Stress & You Might Crack
CHRISTOPHER MASON and ALLEN SALKINPublished: April 20, 2008

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EVEN a 14-carat pink diamond ring can start looking tarnished if it is immersed in muck.

That rose-gold ring, worth up to $15 million by one estimate, was to be the [...]

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” According to a recent DeBeers study, four out of five brides receive diamond engagement rings.
National Jeweler’s 2003 survey found that more than 40 percent of customers planned on buying a diamond one carat or larger.
And the 2002 American Wedding Study (sponsored by Condé Nast) revealed that the average engagement ring costs $3,576: [...]

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Ivana Trump (R), Czech-born businesswoman and former Olympic athelete, fashion model and wife of mogul Donald Trump, and her new husband Rossano Rubicondi (L) EPA/FELIX HEYDER
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Czech Mate

Ivana Trump has snagged a man twenty years her junior, and has married him this past weekend.

Rossano Rubicondi is described as an “actor/model” who charmed the [...]

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