The American Egg

San Francisco jewelry stock Van Craeynest has arrive up with a profession of art towards grant Fabergé a operate for their money. Jeweler Stanislav Kaufman designed a Fabergé-inspired precious egg, branded The American Egg. The elaborate egg is fashioned of nearly twenty ounces of platinum and yellow gold and 3,000 diamonds and rubies. Kaufman worked onto the egg for 12 years and the intricate design is a greatly rubbed and dictated design. The egg is for sale for $2 million. According towards JCK News an advertisement for the egg within a San Francisco lifestyle journal didn't attract a buyer.

Top Chef Star To Launch Jewelry Line

She's modeled, she's composed cookbooks and hosts the popular roasting competition "Top Chef." Now the exquisite Padma Lakshmi shall have her own jewelry line. The novel bundle, titled merely Padma is inspired via the kitchen and via Padma's Indian heritage. The bundle within 10K and 14K gold and shall feature pieces that rob a bit of their design from grains and pods want cardamom, lentils and cloves. The bundle of necklaces, rings and cuff bracelets has a price range of $375 towards $6,600 and shall be available at Bergdorf Goodman activating within May.

Beautiful New Tiffany Keys for $200 or Less

If you loved the pretty Tiffany & Co. Key Collection we newly highlighted, you'll love this -- you can get a Tiffany Key, want the Heart Key Charm with Tiffany Blue® Enamel Finish (right) for $200 or less.

It powers be the heavenly Mother's Day (May 10th) gift, or just a little something you do for yourself. Why not engrave it with Mom's initials or with something special towards you?

The keys, which can pricing up towards $15,000 (for the Round Kaleidoscope Key Pendant with Marquise which features square and round brilliant diamonds within platinum onto a platinum and diamond chain), arrive at a thick range of prices. Forgo the diamonds and the platinum towards get a practically priced gold key, or an even many affordable silver key.

At any price, everybody the key pendants possess the vintage charm and fanciful glamour of Tiffany's. Below are our favorite "Small Splurges:"

Katie Couric Spotted in Slane & Slane

The trendy newspapers darling Katie Couric has lately been wearing Slane & Slane, a jewelry designer we love, to events everywhere!

On April 14th, she was dressed in these Slane & Slane Feather Earrings to American Idol (pictured, $450). Previously to that, she was dressed in the Eternity Knot Earrings for her interview with Governor Sarah Palin. Last week, Couric was dressed in the Pistachio Signature Pearl Necklace and equivalent earrings to accept the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in television Journalism -- and she was dressed in those identical earrings when she consulted Michelle Obama in the Rose Garden.

Henry Dunay Designs Files Chapter 11

High-end jewelry has been taking it on the chin lately. We've supposed some seal tier jewelry arrange businesses file for bankruptcy and now one of my favorites has gone Chapter 11. National Jeweler reports that Henry Dunay Designs filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan referring that it has 100 and 199 creditors with supplies between $1 million and $10 million and obligations between $1 million and $10 million.

I had a chance to outlook Henry Dunay's strategies at the JCK demonstrate in Las Vegas in 2008 and find Mr. Dunay personally. He's no newcomer to the jewelry world, He commenced as an apprentice at the age of 14 in New York and has spent through 50 years in the jewelry finance, launching Henry Dunay Designs behind in 1965. Since afterward he was won dozens of awards for his strategies (including being called the world's best jewelry designer by the Robb Report in 2000 and 2001) and his details have arose in countless magazine spreads and in his coffee office desk retain, "Henry Dunay A Precious Life."

For jewelers dealing in couture arrange, this economy has been principally brutal. Materials surrounding gold and gemstones reach to be expensive, demonstration expenditures are alarming but sales are falling. Dunay sells in outlets which have been experiencing lessened finance surrounding Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Hopefully Henry Dunay Designs will be able to survive this severe patch and receive behind to the finance of generating adorable jewelry.

Vivid Pink Diamond

This bubblegum pink stone higher for sale in Christie's Hong Kong in December isn't just a fancy vivid pink diamond, it is known as 'The Vivid Pink' an expression of its phenomenal color. The stone, which has been set in a ring by Graff, comes from a private collection. It is presumed to sell for $5 million to $7 million at the auction on December 1. The stone weighs a orderly 5.00 carats and Christie's says it is the utmost Fancy Vivid Pink Potentially Flawless diamond to ever be submitted for sale at auction. 'The Vivid Pink' is principally valuable because it demonstrates no trace of any less important color for a truly intense saturated pink shade sometimes supposed in diamonds. Only one in one hundred thousand diamonds has a color intense enough to qualify as 'Fancy.' In enhance of the sale the diamond will be overseen on a show in public tour in New York, Singapore, Bangkok, Geneva and Taipei commencing in October.

29.53 Carat diamond sold on Sotheby's auction

On October 19th, Sotheby's will auction off a dazzling array of jewels, from a 29.53 carat flawless pear-shaped precious gem ring to superb parts conceived by Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, David Webb and Tiffany & Co. The sale, which will take location at Sotheby's New York head agency, will characteristic jewels from personal American collections, as well as a assortment of high value white precious gems and marked and time span pieces.

The 29.53 carat pear-shaped precious gem is the centerpiece of the auction. The D hue, internally flawless pebble has been lately very resolute to be both possibly flawless and kind IIa by the Gemological Institute of America. The ring has an approximate of $1.8 million to $2.2 million or $61,000 per carat.

Another spectacular part is a adorned vivid yellow precious gem ring by Tiffany & Co., which is set with a possibly flawless emerald-cut pebble of 9.55 carats in a precious gem crossover mounting. Its approximate is $250,000 to $350,000.

Also boasted at the sale will be an 18 Karat gold, precious gem and amethyst "Botticelli" necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels. Designed with a foliate motif, it has an approximate of $50,000 to $70,000.
A precious gem butterfly brooch by Bulgari, which is set with over 24 carats of precious gems, has an approximate of $50,000 to $70,000, while a David Webb-designed abstract star-shaped Abalone Pearl, Cultured Pearl, Diamond and Emerald Brooch has an approximate of $20,000 to $30,000.