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Tonight marked the Grande Finale of the first pan-GCC De Beers Group Marketing Diamond Jewellery Design Competition, following in the wake of the international ‘Diamonds: Nature’s Miracle’ competition.
GCC designers set their creativity free to produce some of the most awe-inspiring diamond valentine’s day jewelry gifts pieces and sets ever seen in [...]
The business of jewellery, including fashion jewellery, valentines gifts pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals and imitation jewellery accounted for 26.5 per cent (or $56.98 billion) of the UAE non-oil foreign trade in 2008.
India topped the list of countries contributing to this booming business, followed by China, Japan, Germany, Italy, USA, [...]
Exploitation of rich mineral reserves, especially diamonds, has been a significant driver behind Botswana’s rapid economic growth. Notably, the mining sector of Botswana contributes in double digits to the country’s GDP. Diamonds, along with copper and nickel, are the major focus areas in metal and mineral exploration, and earn more than [...]
As the fine jewellery market continues to stumble through the recession, a lucrative hole in the sector has been discovered. Bold statement pieces from the likes of high fashion houses Marni and Lanvin, made with little more than a few pieces of coloured resin and a grosgrain ribbon, are growing in popularity [...]
When it comes to Valentine’s Day, there are two types of romantics: the organized ones who secured dining reservations weeks ago, and then the rest of us. Because the big event falls on a Saturday this year — and despite the battered economy — chances are that many dining rooms are already [...]
After Tanai and Steve Burke exchanged vows yesterday in the historic courtroom of Town Hall in Hempstead, the newlyweds walked down the aisle through an arch of balloons.
Someone found a folding chair, and the groom slipped the garter from under his bride’s knee-length white dress. They sliced a buttercream cake with [...]
“Ionized” metal wrist bracelets are a popular alternative pain-relief technique. Bratton and colleagues performed a randomized, doubleblind, placebo-controlled trial to assess the effects ionized bracelets have on musculoskeletal pain.
The manufacturer claims that the bracelets “energize” the body, relieve pain, and balance tiffany jewellery positive and negative ions for the maintenance [...]
Chicago designer Gillion Carrara does not make your average jewelry. Carrara sculpts large bracelets, cuffs and rings from Tuscan briar root, bone, horn, wood and various metals.
“I don’t do feminine jewelry,” said Carrara. “I have been incorporating stainless steel in cuffs and am now doing larger stainless steel and bronze rings.”
Carrara, [...]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm tiffany jewellery named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
NAME OF PRODUCT: A Life of Faith Charm Bracelet Sets
UNITS: About 11,000
MANUFACTURER: Mission City Press, of Franklin, Tenn.
HAZARD: Surface [...]
The patent has been assigned to FUJITSU LTD., tiffany jewelry Kanagawa, Japan.
According to an abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: “An electrical circuit includes a first path having even numbers of inverters connected in series from a first node at an input side toward a second node at an [...]