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For centuries, the allure of the deep sea has served as inspiration for many artistic creations – be it the undulating waves of the high seas or the marine life that inhabit the diverse watery depths. Its captivating beauty and awe-inspiring seascapes transport the senses to a world beyond the familiar. Yet its expanse remains an intriguing mystery. It is the vastness and lure of the ocean that allows the artistic mind to roam free – inspiring maisons of haute joaillerie to re-imagine life under the sea and create ocean-inspired motifs that pay homage to the charm of the nautical world.
From Chopard’s red carpet ring to Van Cleef &amp; Arpel’s Seven Seas collection to Gübelin’s Grace of the Sea Anemone cocktail ring, these fine works of jewellery for the fingers, wrist and décolletage are masterfully crafted and set with the rarest and most dazzling of semi-precious gemstones and diamonds to reflect the essence of maritime beauty.

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<li>Fawaz Gruosi High Jewellery Collection</li>
<li>Fabio Salini Necklace</li>
<li>Gubelin Grace of the Sea Anemone Cocktail Ring</li>
<li>Chopard Red Carpet Collection</li>
<li>Van Cleef &amp; Arpels Seven Seas Caspiansea Clip Mysterieuses</li>
<li>Van Cleef &amp; Arpels Seven Seas Caspiansea Clip Trois Tortues</li>
<li>Tasaki Eveil Ear Cuff</li>
<li>Annoushka Hidden Reef Cuff</li>
<li>Pomalleto Sabbia Ring</li>
<li>Aurelie Bidermann Necklace</li>
<li>Chanel Bo Precious Float Earrings</li>
<li>Cindy Chao Art Jewel Collection Coral Earrings</li>
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Nautical Charm: High jewellery pieces inspired by the ocean

As cool weather gives way to warmer climes and the seductive scent of spring begins to emerge, it’s time to turn our attention once more to that most consistently alluring of seasonal trends – floral jewellery.
Indeed, Mother Earth has long inspired the leading haute joaillerie maisons of the world, leading to the creation of some truly stunning garden-themed creations – Chopard’s decadent Red Carpet Collection 2021 choker and the Manhattan Party necklace by Bulgari, to name but two.

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It would be folly, however, to assume that such flower-inspired jewellery has only recently become in vogue. Indeed, such adornments date back to many ancient civilisations, and have traditionally been worn in such elaborate ceremonies as Indian weddings. More recently, this trend has been adopted by the West, with summer brides opting for veils adorned with floral headpieces in a bohemian chic style.
Today, however, the floral fad is used not just for weddings but for every imaginable occasion, great or small. What’s more, they come in a riot of hues, shapes and sizes, making them just the perfect addition be it to subtly enhance your outfit of the day or grab attention at your chosen soiree.
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Bloomin' Marvellous A cornucopia of spring-inspired jewelleries

Bloomin’ Marvellous: A cornucopia of spring-inspired jewelleries

If you are planning to gift – or hoping to get – a diamond this season, you have a ’40s copywriter called Frances Gerety to thank. Or blame. It’s hard to imagine a time when diamond engagement rings were not the norm, but before the ’30s, the unveiling of a diamond would not generally seal a marriage proposal unless the love-struck suitor was literally royalty or uber wealthy.
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In the Great Depression, diamonds were seen as an extravagant expense that detracted from functional luxuries like buying a car or a house. It was then that De Beers, the company which monopolised the diamond market, hired advertising agency N.W. Ayer to “use propaganda in various forms” to transform the stone into the ultimate gesture of love. Some 10 years later, in 1947, Gerety coined the signature line, ‘A Diamond is Forever’, and De Beers sold a novel idea to the world that a stone which can be chiselled, discoloured and incinerated to ash is a symbol of eternal love and emotional value.
This ‘slogan of the century’ has been used in nearly all of De Beers advertisements. The beauty of Gerety’s one-liner was that it didn’t try to make a direct sale; instead, it sold the concept of permanence and eternity and based it on the foundation of sentiment. For a mass of coal that did incredibly well under pressure, diamonds owe their remarkable success to the genius of a creative writer.
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In the post-World War II era, diamond solitaire rings became de rigueur for lovers virtually everywhere in the world. But recently, the pressure and conditions in which a diamond thrives have spurred a debate that threatens to derail Gerety’s legacy. Decades of environmental and humanitarian abuses in diamond mining; a boom of lab-made, guilt-free counterparts; and an ethically-conscious generation coming of diamond-purchasing age – the industry is once again at the crossroads. So, what are lab-made diamonds, and why are young people falling out of love with the naturally mined gemstones?
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Made in a Lab 
Frankensteined into existence, lab-created diamonds are not new; they were first manufactured for General Electric in 1954. Replicating the properties of the world’s hardest substance, industrial diamonds were made to cut other materials that would be otherwise impossible to crack. Larger, more sophisticated and stunning gem-quality synthetic stones followed, created within weeks in laboratories using high-pressure, high-temperature growth chambers that mimic what, in nature, takes millions of years. Advances in technology in the last four or five years have allowed companies to produce higher quality diamonds more quickly and cheaply.
A report by management consultancy Bain &amp; Company states that the worldwide growth of lab diamond production increased to six to seven million carats in 2020, while the production of mined diamonds fell to 111 million carats, from a peak of 152 million in 2017. The synthetic variety cost “a third of what it is for something that we’ve dug up from the ground,” says Alexander Lacik, CEO of Pandora, the world’s largest jeweller.
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“Created within weeks in laboratories using high-pressure, high-temperature growth chambers [synthetic diamonds] mimic what, in nature, takes millions of years”
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Synthetic stones, however, retain a certain stigma in the luxury industry, a psychological barrier to break through given our historic conditioning that diamonds are exceptionally rare, prized possessions. But laboratory-manufactured diamonds are not imitations or knock-offs – physically, chemically and optically they are bona-fide gems, corresponding very closely to natural stones. And they are more affordable, ‘conflict-free’ and apparently created at half the carbon footprint of the mined variety.
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Cleaner Choice 
The diamond mining industry has long been tainted by images of international or civil conflict and humanitarian transgressions, as spurred into the public consciousness by the 2006 film Blood Diamond. Cultured diamonds, on the other hand, are increasingly marketed as the cleaner, sustainable choice to price- and planet-conscious young buyers who are steadily making their mark; this market segment is growing by 15 to 20 percent per year, according to the Antwerp World Diamond Centre.
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The lab-grown sector has welcomed countless new players embracing the trend, most notably Pandora, which this spring announced an exclusive switch to lab-made diamonds as a part of its long-term sustainability drive. After long resistance to change, for the first time in its century-old history, De Beers has rolled out a line of lab-created diamond jewellery under the brand Lightbox, with an annual production of some 500,000 synthetic carats.
‘C’ for Cost 
Just like a natural diamond, the price of its synthetically-made cousins can vary tremendously. At bridal jeweller James Allen, a one-carat lab-created diamond starts at about US$1,550, and bestows up to 30 percent more size for the price than a natural diamond. A 6.36-carat synthetic diamond, meanwhile, can be snapped up for US$61,888 at Clean Origin. Lightbox sells one-carat loose cultured diamonds for US$800; a mined diamond of the same size and clarity would cost at least 10 times that price. The resale value of a lab-grown stone is questionable, though, and with a capacity surge assured as Chinese producers begin to enter the market, it’s clear that prices will keep falling in contrast to the naturals, especially as the mined supply dries up.
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Since the synthetic diamond has an identical chemical structure to the mined stone, and goes through the same grading and certification processes, they ‘appear’ the same in terms of the 4 (or 5) Cs – cut, colour, clarity, carat (and certification). The essential difference hinges on their enduring worth. Real diamonds are true miracles of nature that have withstood the test of time, so their inherent value is incomparable.
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Not Flawless 
Lab-made diamonds are being talked up amid the climate crisis, but are they so squeaky clean and green? Given the increasing number of players in the synthetic diamond industry, it is difficult to compare accurate data about the carbon footprint of mined and lab diamonds. The synthetic manufacturers like Gemesis and Deluxe Diamonds, have repeatedly pointed out that their lab-made creations produce less than half the carbon emissions, and are without the taint of child labour. But the US Federal Trade Commission has gone on record to warn against unsubstantiated sustainability claims, pointing to the significant amount of electricity required to create gemstones in artificial conditions.
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A report by the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) found that the greenhouse gas emissions of diamond mining are three times less than growing a gemstone in the lab. It’s worth noting, however, that members of the DPA – now rebranded as the Natural Diamond Council – are seven of the world’s largest diamond miners, including De Beers, Alrosa and Rio Tinto.
Regardless, some experts speculate that 20 years from now the debate will be moot. The vast reserves of diamond mines will follow the fate of Rio Tinto’s Argyle Mine in Western Australia. Once famed for unearthing 90 percent of the world’s pink diamonds, it closed last year after supplying 865 million carats of rough diamonds since 1983. Other mines will surely shutdown the same way. There will be a world with a continuing desire for the sparkling stones – but the demand will be fulfilled by man-made gems. After all, diamonds are forever – but the mines are not.

Will lab made diamonds become a girl’s new best friend

Will lab made diamonds become a girl’s new best friend?

Jewels have always been a source of fascination, obsession and intrigue. Precious stones have been the inspiration for heist movies, romance novels and murder mysteries ever since we started putting pen to paper. In the case of these beguiling bedazzlers the truth is even stranger than fiction.
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The Nawanagar Necklace
In 1931, Jacques Cartier was commissioned by the Maharajah of Nawanagar to create a necklace formed of two strands of diamonds. Eight weeks later Cartier declared the arrangement “the finest cascade of coloured diamonds in the world”. The illustrious treasure featured seven of the rarest diamonds in the world, including the Ranjitsinhji diamond, and weighed six pounds. It mysteriously disappeared after the Maharajah&#8217;s death in 1933 and is presumed to have been broken down into smaller untraceable designs. If that sounds familiar it was also the fate that befell “Le Toussaint”, the fictional necklace which was the target of the grand heist in the movie Ocean’s 8, the design of which was based on this very necklace.
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The Black Star of Queensland
In the 1930s, a boy called Roy Spencer was playing in a field near Anakie in Queensland Australia. He found a large, heavy greyish stone and carried it home with him, where it was used to prop open the porch door for the next nine years. Once Roy’s miner father Harry clocked that his doorstop might be worth a buck or two, he put it up for sale. It was eventually bought by Armenian jeweller Kazanjian who studied the stone for two months before cutting it. In cutting out the cabochon, Kazanjian lost 423 carats before finally revealing an immaculate six-pointed star within the stone – despite the lost carats, The Black Star remains the second-largest sapphire in the world. The stone now belongs to Swiss Gabrielle Grohe after she purchased it for her then-boyfriend Jack Armstrong. After they split Armstrong tried to claim ownership of the sapphire but couldn’t come up with the cash to buy Grohe out.&nbsp;
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The Moon of Baroda Diamond
Fewer gems can boast a more impressive lineage than the Moon of Baroda, which came from the very same Golconda mine which bore the Koh-I-Noor and the Hope diamonds. From the mine The Moon went to the Gaekwad family, the Maharajas of Baroda, who lent it to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria for a period. It has been looted by Persian ruler Nadir Shah before being returned to Baroda and lent to Marie Antoinette before being bought by Meyer Rosenbaum in 1943. The diamond was finally cemented in pop culture history when it was lent by Rosenbaum to Marilyn Monroe so she could wear it in the iconic hit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
But the extraordinary story of The Moon of Baroda is far from over. The pendant is coming up for auction at Christie’s Hong Kong on 27 November. Weighing 24.04 carats the canary yellow stone is estimated to go for a staggering HK$4-6 billion. Fancy!
Text: Alice Duncan

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