Expensive Tastes

Expensive Diamond Clothes

by admin on Mar.30, 2009, under bling things

diamond-braIt all starts with Victoria’s Secret Black Diamond Fantasy Bra. Designed by Martin Katz with nearly 3,900 gems including 3,575 black diamonds, 117 round diamonds  and 34 rubies and two large black diamond drops it weighs in at a mind boggling 1,500 carats.

Value? How does approx USD 5million sound?

diamond-bikini

Then there’s the $30m itsy bitsy teeny weeny diamond bikini designed by Susan Rosen with some 150 carats of flawless D diamonds as worn by Molly Sims for Sports Illustrated.

There is even a rare 50+ carat pear shaped diamond included in the platinum piece. Mmmh, wonder if it’s comfortable to wear ladies?


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Most Expensive Diamond Jewelry

by admin on Nov.29, 2008, under diamonds

The most expensive diamond jewelry I have found available online so far is shown below via the Amazon storefront. These pieces are available for normal online purchase unlike some of the worlds most expensive jewelry which only comes up for auction sporadically. These pieces are a snip compared to the millions paid (about $16 million actually…) by Guess Jeans founder Georges Marciano for the 84+ carat “Chloe Diamond” in Nov 2007, or the $16.5m paid in 1995 for the “Star of the Season”. (continue reading…)

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Pink Diamond Jewelry

by admin on Nov.17, 2008, under colored diamonds, diamonds

Pink diamond jewelry is enjoying new popularity, partly due to some celebrities tastes for these expensive diamonds. Natural pink diamonds are very rare and largely come from Argyle Diamonds in Australia.

Careful though – not all pink diamonds are naturally pink and expensive! Jewelers have developed artificial coloring methods and you’ll need to be wary of this if you’re in the market.

The beautiful ring below blends pink and white diamonds with two tone gold, a snip at just under $14k… (continue reading…)

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New Diamond Announced – 478 Carats

by admin on Sep.22, 2008, under diamonds

This month saw the discovery of a new world class diamond in Lesotho by Gem Diamonds.

The new discovery is type 11 D color, the highest grade for a white diamond and said to be “of outstanding clarity” and could potentially produce one of the largest flawless round D color polished diamonds ever. in its rough form it comes in at the 20th largest rough diamond yet. It comes from the same mine that has now been the source of four of the worlds 20 largest rough diamonds.

There won’t be a reliable estimate of value until it can be cut but it is likely to be in excess of $12m.

The UK Telegraph has an article with a pic

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Diamond Earrings – Expensive Diamond Earrings!

by admin on Sep.13, 2008, under Uncategorized

I love these diamond earrings I found on sale at Amazon, a little more affordable than the diamonds I previously spoke about and funnily enough my favorite this time is actually the least expensive, the Tanzanite and Diamond Earrings – a snip at under $15,000.

If you’re wondering about the tanzanite, its a beautiful crystal gemstone from Tanzania in Africa, the only place it seems to occur. First discovered in the 60′s, it has a sensational blue color with a hint of purple on larger stones. Cutters say it is difficult to work with so that fact combined with its single origin makes it a very desirable stone. If you are lucky enough to own it remember its not a very hard stone so don’t use acid based cleaners or ultrasonic cleaning.

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Outrageous Diamonds?

by admin on Aug.05, 2008, under diamond enhanced

A friend sent me these images of diamond encrusted collectibles but has not told me anything about them. I’ll try to find out some more and add to this post.

The skull is by artist Damien Hirst and entitled “For the Love of God”. Valued at $100m so definitely in the expensive tastes category! It was made by Bentley and Skinner, a London silversmith and apparently over 2 kilos (4.4 lbs) of platinum and is encrusted with over 8,600 diamonds totaling some 1200 cts.

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Most Expensive Diamonds

by admin on Jun.15, 2008, under diamonds

Most Expensive Diamonds

I just love looking at and marveling at ridiculously expensive things, all kinds of things from homes to hotel rooms from cars to carpets! Of course there is a certain envy of those who can afford these things but good luck to them, if you got it flaunt it.

Lets start with some diamonds shall we? Right up there in the ridiculously expensive stakes are diamonds. Did you know the biggest buyers of expensive diamonds are men and not always for their women. No these guys buy diamonds for their collections. Not surprisingly these guys are amongst the worlds wealthiest. They travel to international auctions and dealers in Africa, Australia and other countries in the hunt for perfect diamonds. (continue reading…)

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