Top 10 Diamond Jewelry Gifts for this Christmas Season

Diamond Jewelry is a perfect Christmas Gift. It’s a gift that is sure to make any girl smile.

1.    Solitaire Diamond Studs – Diamond studs are a timeless classic. They can never go wrong. Give a gift of solitaire diamond studs and you can be sure that they will be cherished forever. 

2.    Diamond Cross Pendant – Keep up the Christmas spirit with a stunning diamond cross pendant. Cross pendants are loved by all age groups .

3.    Diamond Journey Earrings – Very few pieces of jewelry have an underlying meaning as beautiful as they look. Journey earrings are one of them. These earrings are symbolic of various journeys that one takes. Dangling beautifully from the ear lobes they add a subtle length to a face.

4.    Diamond locket pendants – Locket pendants are a great way to preserve memories and what better gift can there be than a gift of memories.
5.    Colored diamond Jewelry – Women love diamonds, and if those diamonds are colored it sure cannot get any better. Colored diamonds have gained much limelight in recent times and are the ultimate fashion statement.

6.    Diamond Bracelet – One of the most popular accessories of celebrities on the red carpet, diamond bracelet, always is brilliant way of making a woman feel like a star.

7.     Diamond Key Pendants – One of the recent rage in the fashion world, key pendants are unique and unconventional. A great gift for the woman of today, who loves it different.

8.    Diamond and Colored Gemstone Jewelry – A combination of diamonds and colored gemstones is always a great ensemble. For it has the subtlety and brilliance of diamonds as well as the color and vigor of gemstones. A unique contrast that no woman can resist.

9.    Diamond Ring – If there is any woman you love, there is no way as sincere to express your love than with a diamond ring. Diamond rings are symbolic of eternal love, sincerity and loyalty.

 

10.    Diamond Charms – Diamond charms are

a great way to wish good luck to your loved ones. Diamond charms can be paired up with a bracelet or a chain and can make a great ensemble.

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World’s Largest Red Diamond

Deep red is among the rarest of diamond colors. Cut and polished from a 13.9-carat crystal discovered in the 1990s by a Brazilian farmer, the Moussaieff Red Diamond is the largest red diamond known. The Moussaieff Red Diamond is also known as Red Shield Diamond measures 5.11 carats (1.022 g) triangular in shape or trillion cut rated in color as Fancy Red by GIA.

Diamond Description

Diamond Weight – 5.11 carats (1.022 g), rated Color by GIA fancy Red, Cut Triangular brilliant, Country of origin – brazil, Estimated value $7million, Cut by William Goldberg Diamond Corp, Current owner Moussaieff Jewelers Ltd.

History of the Stone

The William Goldberg Diamond Corporation transformed the piece into a spectacular red diamond weighing 5.11 carats. Sometime around 2001 or 2002 the stone was purchased by Moussaieff Jewelers Ltd.

The Moussaieff Red was exhibited in the Smithsonian Museum in 2003, being part of an display titled The Splendor of Diamonds . The exhibit lasted from June 27th to September 30th and featured a number of other unusual colored diamonds, namely the Millennium Star, the Heart of Eternity, the Pumpkin Diamond, the Allnatt Diamond, the Ocean Dream, and the Steinmetz Pink.

The diamond became popular due to its really surprising cranberry color.According to reports by the Gemological Institute of America, the Moussaieff red diamond is the largest, “It is the largest Fancy Red, natural color diamond that we have graded as of the date the report was issued”.

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The Sultan of Morocco Diamond

Origin of Name

The name suggests a possible linkage with the Sultans of morocco, before the mid 19th century, but there is no information to suggest that the stone had ever been with any one of the Sultans of Morocco.

Characteristics of the stone

The diamond is a 35.27-carat, cushion-cut, fancy grayish blue stone of unknown clarity. It is a rare type 11b diamond and perhaps the 4th largest natural blue diamond in the world. Type IIb is free of nitrogen, but contain trace quantities of another impurity, boron, which imparts a blue color to the diamonds. All natural blue diamonds belong to this group. However they are extremely scarce, constituting less than 0.1 % of all natural diamonds.

History of the stone

The country of origin, mine of origin etc. of the diamond are not known. The diamond came into the possession of the Yousupov family, a Russian noble family of Tartari descent, in 1840.The source of the diamond predicted is the Kollur mines of Golconda, in Southern India because it is the only known source of blue diamonds in the world during the time the stone originated(the pre mid-19th century) in addition to this the Sultan of Morocco diamond seems to be of Indian origin.

The current owner of the Blue Diamond

After the sale of the diamond in 1922 to Cartier of New York, the next occasion we here about the diamond is in 1972, when the diamond was sold privately to a private collector in San Francisco, California. The price paid for the diamond was said to be $250,000.

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The Hope Diamond

Introduction

“The French Blue” or “The Hope Diamond” or “Tavernier Blue “is large fancy dark grayish blue diamond. “The Hope Diamond” is famous for supposedly being cursed and is currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C.

History of the stone & Origin of the stone’s name

The Hope Diamond is the previous record holder for being the largest faceted diamond and is probably the most well known and historically interesting of all diamonds. The Hope Diamond was originally known as the “Tavernier Blue” named after its first owner which was a crudely cut triangular diamond. According to legend, it was stolen from an Indian temple from statue of goddess Sita where it formed the eye. It purchased by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier around 1660. The diamond was sold to King Louis XIV of France who had it cut into a 67.125 carat stone. It was renamed “the French Blue” and worn for ceremonial functions in France. The diamond was rarely seen until Louis XVI gave it to Marie Antoinette who added it to her jewelry collection. When the French Revolution started the diamond was stolen and resurfaced in La Havre four years later. The diamond disappeared for another 20 years; when it resurfaced in the hands of a London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in 1812. Henry Philip Hope purchased the diamond in 1824, after his death his heirs fought over the diamond. It passed through three generations of the Hope family until Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton Hope fell into bankruptcy and was forced to sell the stone. The diamond continued to change hands until Pierre Cartier acquired it in 1910. Cartier reset the stone and sold it to socialite Evelyn Walsh McLean she was fascinated by the magical stone “The Hope diamond” the largest and most perfect blue diamond in existence and she thought things that were unlucky for everybody else would be lucky for her, because she was an exception. The deal closed at $180,000.She left the stone to her heirs; however it had to be sold again to settle outstanding debt. The stone was purchased by legendary jeweler Harry Winston who had the lower portion of the stone cut to increase its brilliance. After having the diamond as part of his traveling exhibit known as "the court of jewels," he donated it to the Smithsonian Institution where he sent it through the US postal service in plain brown wrapper. The diamond is said to have been cursed by the Hindu temple priest because financial ruin or sudden death occurred to many who owned it. The diamond was also the inspiration for the fictional "Heart of the Ocean" in the movie Titanic. In 2005 new computer research proved that the Hope Diamond was indeed the French Blue that was stolen from the jewelry collection of Marie Antoinette. The currently the stone is priced at $350 Million and more.

Characteristics of Diamond

“The French Blue” or “The Hope Diamond” or “Tavernier Blue “is fancy dark grayish blue diamond weighing 45.52 carats (9.10 g).The Hope Diamond is deep-blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal structure, but it exhibits red phosphorescence under ultraviolet light. It is classified as a Type IIb diamond, a Type IIb means free of nitrogen, but contains trace quantities of another impurity, boron, which imparts a blue color to the diamonds. All the natural blue diamond belongs to this group. However they are extremely scarce, constituting less than 0.1 % of all natural diamonds.

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How Color Diamonds Get Their Color

I wish my mistakes were as beautiful!

Well, not exactly mistakes but the theory behind the color in colored diamonds does tell us that even impurities can make beautiful diamonds even more tempting. So when Mother Nature blesses a diamond with impurity, it becomes a colored diamond, one of the most beautiful and precious rocks on earth. A nitrogen impurity makes diamonds yellow, boron makes a diamond blue, extreme pressure gives a diamond brown, red, pink and purple hues and natural radiation gives a diamond green tint.

Wow! If only extreme pressure in life could make us that beautiful! No, no. This was sincerely about diamonds I do not intend to do philosophy here. I love diamonds and everything about them – material girl… thinking uh?

Natural Colored Diamond Jewelry - Rich and Famous

Diamonds are always welcome and if they’re natural colored ones it’s like owning a piece of the sky. Exquisite and extravagant they are, and you sure have to cough up a chunk, but believe me it’s worth every penny. That’s exactly what our rich and famous are doing and they sure have every good reason to. The J LO's pink diamond stolel the show and became a trend setter for colored diamonds, leaving no room for a marriage.


Talking of colored diamonds, the red carpet at Golden Globes witnessed the gorgeous Beyonce Knowles sporting an ivory bangle lined with multi-colored diamonds paired with similar dangling earrings. Now that’s what we call truly classy and rare. I hope we don’t have the wild life brigade reading this or poor Beyonce would have put up with a lot more trouble for owning ivory than the spotlight and rave reviews she enjoyed for having worn them.