December 2024, Newsflash

December Birthstone

Blue Topaz

The Blue Topaz gemstones strengths are healing, love and relationships. This gemstone is a spiritual stone that symbolize the” God Power”. Blue Topaz are said to have healing properties that can help repair the digestive tract and fight against anorexia. The Blue Topaz gemstone symbolizes fidelity, eternal love and mutual understanding. Some say that Blue topaz stone is a gemstone that is very important in the life of lovers. This beautiful blue gemstone is said to promote truth and forgiveness while promoting openness, honesty, self-realization, and self-control. Use Blue Topaz for when you meditate allowing wisdom from the higher mind to be assimilated by your physical self.

Jewelry Auctions

Michelle Graff, National Jeweler Magazine

18th-Century Diamond Necklace

Sells for Nearly $5M

Sotheby’s sold the necklace, which potentially has ties to Marie-Antoinette, for $4.8 million to a woman bidding via phone.

This diamond necklace was created in the decade preceding the French Revolution, which took place from 1789-1799, and this is the first time it’s been seen publicly in the last five decades.

Geneva—After a seven-minute back-and-forth, a woman bidding over the phone won the battle for a négligée-style diamond necklace that is more than 200 years old.

The necklace, the crown jewel of Sotheby’s “Royal and Noble Jewels” sale held Wednesday in Geneva, sold for $4.8 million to the woman, identified only as an “international private collector.”

Its pre-sale estimate was $1.8 million to $2.8 million.

The necklace, which contains more than 500 collet-set old cushion-shaped and circular-cut diamonds, was made sometime in the decade before the French Revolution—so, between the years 1779 and 1789—Sotheby’s has estimated.

The exact origin of the diamonds, which total more than 300 carats, is unknown.

They are believed to be Golconda diamonds from the famed mines in India of the same name.

They also could be diamonds from the “Affair of the Necklace” necklace, the piece that caused a scandal and further damaged Marie-Antoinette’s reputation and the standing of the French monarchy in the eyes of the public.

The famed “Affair” necklace was broken up and sold in London, and its diamonds would have been on the market around the time this approximately 300-carat necklace was made, likely for royalty or a high-ranking aristocrat of either the French or English court.

What is known about this piece, Sotheby’s said, is that it once belonged to the Marquesses of Anglesey, an aristocratic family with close ties to the British Royal family in the early 20th century.

The diamond necklace has been worn to at least two British coronations.

Marjorie Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, donned the piece for the coronation of King George VI in 1937, pairing it with the Anglesey tiara.

Marjorie Paget, the Marchioness of Anglesey, in her coronation robes and diamond jewelry at the coronation of King George VI, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1937 (Photo courtesy of Condé Nast Archive)

Less than two decades later, in 1953, her daughter-in-law, the seventh Marquess of Anglesey, wore the same suite of jewels to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Sotheby’s said the seventh Marquess of Anglesey parted with the piece sometime in the 1960s.

It went on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1976 as part of the museum’s Bicentennial Exhibition before being acquired by a private collector in Asia, who has owned it until now.

When Sotheby’s announced earlier this fall that it would be offering the 18th-century necklace at auction, it marked the first time the piece had been seen in public in 50 years.

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Style & Trends

Amanda’s Style File:

Golden and Blue November Hues

These bow-shaped earrings from Aurelia Demark feature London blue topaz and are one of the pieces featured in Amanda’s Style File this month. Blue topaz set in yellow gold perfectly captures the November transition and it makes the look feel more modern.

Argenti Designer Jewelers

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Blue Topaz & Diamond Ring

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Mark Silver, Argenti Designer Jewelers designs a one of a kind Diamond and cushion cut London Blue Topaz amazing ring. The December Blue Topaz ring is mesmerizing. A true fantasy motif in solid 14K white gold. Simply elegant and timeless. Custom designed and available in store.

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Designer Diamond Collection

Holiday Sale

Mark Silver at Argenti Designer Jewelers designs in both mined and lab grown diamonds. Both diamond collections of bracelets, rings, necklaces and earrings are available in solid 14K yellow or white gold.

Lab-grown diamonds are diamonds with the same crystal structure, chemical composition, and physical properties as the mined rocks, their carbon atoms are arranged in a cubic crystal structure.

With the advancement in technology through the years, our lab-grown diamonds have the same crystal structure, chemical composition and physical properties as mined diamonds.

Lab Grown Diamond is the same as a mined diamond and an affordable luxury for all.

These diamonds are grown in labs, with advanced technological processes that stimulate and create the same conditions under which mined diamonds develop when they form in the mantle, beneath the Earth’s crust.

Lab grown diamonds looks exactly the same as mined diamonds, and the only difference is the origin of the creation. One being mined from the inner Earth and the other created in labs.

The lab diamonds are more environmentally friendly and an option to purchasing mined diamonds.

Lab Grown Diamonds Process

The easy process of creating a lab grown diamond begins with a thin slice of diamond seed that is placed in a sealed chamber. The chamber is filled with carbon rich-gas, such as Methane, and are ionized into plasma using lasers/microwaves technologies. Then the molecular bonds in the gases are broken and the pure carbon slowly crystallizes and sticks to the diamond seed. This process will take between 6-10 weeks to form a lab grown diamond.

We have laser-inscribed certification numbers on larger lab diamonds that are visible under a microscope.

In addition, our mined diamonds are graded and certified by GIA – Gemological Institute of America

as our assurance of excellent quality.

Our lab-grown diamonds are graded using the standard 4Cs method of assessing diamond quality. They all come with a certification of authenticity grading report. We provide the International Gemological Institute (IGI) certification for larger diamonds. Identification is important to us and is always a representation