Making the ordinary extrordinary, because all fine jewelry should be Exceptional
One of the best loved pieces at this year’s Coture and JCK shows, this five row spring cuff bracelet in 18 karat yellow gold features 1.15 carats of G VS diamonds that are bead set in 18 karat white gold bars. Flexible in style and execution (there are tiny steel wires inside to give it spring), [...]
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The term karat describes the purity or percentage of gold in an object. In use since the late 1500′s, the karat is divided into segments of 24: Pure gold is 24/24, or 24 karat. 18 karat gold, also known as 750 gold, is 18/24 parts, or 75% gold. 14 karat gold, also seen stamped as as “585″, [...]
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August’s birthstone is a bright lemony green, dark lime green, or olive green gem form of olivine called peridot [per-i-doh]. It is one of the few gemstones which exists in only one color range, and its saturation of color is determined by the amount of iron present as the gem crystallizes. This gem forms deep in the earth as [...]
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Even though most of us think of a carat as a measure of size, it’s actually a measure of weight. Historically, the carob seed was used on balance scales to determine weight for gemstones, and this is where our modern carat came from. A carat weighs 1/5 gram; further, a carat is divided into one [...]
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