What Your Wrist Watch Says About You

With the pressure to conform to the latest fashions dictating you that you should look out for what clothes you wear, how you style your hair and what skincare products you should use - it is easy to overlook the effect that the humble wrist watch can have on an outfit.

Men don’t generally wear a lot of accessories, this means that a watch can actually say a lot about the person wearing it.We would hate to admit it, but we do make flash judgements about people within the first few seconds of meeting them for the first time - it’s just human nature.Watches are of course worn on the wrist and come in a variety of styles so what we wear can say a lot about who we are and the image we are subconsciously trying to project. 

A sporty watch may unsurprisingly indicate someone of an active nature, or someone that is trying to be.  A more generic style of watch could be indicitave of someone who is perhaps indifferent to how they are perceived and requires it for more practial purposes.  Those who wear more expensive designer watches tend to do so as they act as a status symbol and are as decorative and desirable as a necklace or any other type of jewellery.It is for this reason that there is a large black market for replica watches, particularly Rolex watches.It is likely that you will be able to tell which is fake and which is the real deal by the outfit that it accompanies.

If you are looking for that perfect watch to complete your outfit, don’t fool yourself into thinking that a higher end designer watch is outside your price range.  You will be able to find plenty of online designer watch shops where you will be able to find that designer watch to suit your tastes and more importantly, your wallet!

Advice When Buying Pearl Necklace Jewellery

People believe that wearing pearls on their wedding day will bring bliss to their marriage.

The one thing that comes to mind when thinking about wedding jewellery is pearls. How do you choose the perfect pearl necklace jewellery?

Pearls come in 4 different types: Tahitian, Akoya, Southsea and Freshwater. 3 of these types of pearls come from the ocean, the only one which does not if Freshwater pearls. They are more valuable than freshwater pearls for their rarity and high luster.

Akoya pearls are the most popular. These pearls are valued for their rich colour, mirror like finish,and appealing roundness.

All gemstones are valued by their quality.

A pearls quality can be A, AA, AA+, AAA, AAA+. If you have two pearls the exact same size, an “AAA” quality pearl would be much more expensive than an “A” quality pearl.

Size, matching, colour, surface, nacre and luster are the six criteria that the quality and value of pearls are based around.

Nacre: Most buyers of pearl jewellery pay most attention to the pearls’ nacre thickness. A pearl oyster produces a coating to the pearl nucleus and it is this that is classed as the nacre. A pearl will last longer with a thicker nacre. Pearls that last longer usually havce a nacre thickness over 0.4mm.

Luster and Surface: Luster is the amount of light reflected from the pearl’s surface. Pearls with clean surfaces and high luster are the most desired.

Colour: The colours of pearls really boils down to your own personal choice.

Size: The price of pearls that are larger than 7mm varies greatly. People usually buy the largest pearls they can afford.

Shape: The valuable pearls are the round ones and these coincidentaly happen to be the most desired.

Matching: For a pearl necklace jewellery set or bracelet, matching refers to the ways in which all of the pearls are similar. It is difficult to find enough pearls to make a matching jewellery set as you can imagine and therefore a matching set would command a high price.

If you do not have enough in the budget it may dictate the kind of pearls you can buy. Take your time to shop around and find that perfect pearl necklace for your wedding day or special occasion.

Gem Cutting Changed Over The Years

Gem cutting – How it has changed over the years (50% of the original rough diamond is lost during the cutting of a round brilliant gem)

How does a mass of mineral or crystal become an attractive diamond, ruby or sapphire? It’s an amazing process called gem cutting or lapidary and makes all the difference in the final value of the stone. It was developed first in Venice in the early 1300’s and was seen in Paris and Bruges in the mid-1400s.Great cutting is a precise art that catches the light just and captures the beauty of the gem. Poor cutting destroys it.

Most gems start out actually being sawed with a special lapidary saw into a rough shape, such as square, round, pear or marquise. It’s then ground with a diamond-infused wheel to further refine the shape. The gem cutter uses a series of finer and finer abrasives to get closer to the clear heart of the gem. Cabochon gems are polished to a smooth overall surface, sometimes held by hand, but more often fixed or “dopped” with wax or adhesive to a dowel to hold it while the lapidarist polishes the stone.

Transparent stones are most often faceted, a process where flat planes of the stone are cut and polished over the surface in a precise, symmetrical pattern. It’s critical that the planes match up perfectly, or the beauty of how the light is captured by the facets will be lost.
If a stone is not polished, the brilliance of the gem will also be lost. When a stone is properly faceted, it captures the light so it bounces around inside the stone, giving it the sparkle we love and that helps determine the value of the gem. If the stone is cut too flat, or the facets don’t meet precisely, the light doesn’t bounce off the angles in the facets to maximum effect.

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Diamond Cutting Styles Explained

Our love of diamonds and admiration of their fire and brilliance has given rise to many different cuts of diamonds. While we still see many of the earliest styles of diamond cuts – such as the round and emerald-cut, there are many more cuts today, some of them patented by their designers and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The most popular cut for a diamond ring today is still the round, brilliant cut. It was developed in the 17th century in Venice. It is still preferred when the raw crystal is in an octahedron formation. Even though nearly 50% of the stone is cut away in the process, often two stones can be carved from an octahedron. More unusually-shaped stones are used for unique cuts, such as a marquise, pear or heart-shaped diamond. The earliest brilliants had 17 facets on the top of the stone and were called double-cut. This was soon improved with stones cut with 33 facets and were called triple-cut brilliants.

In the 19th century, with the development of better gem-cutting tools, more innovations in diamond cutting styles were developed. In 1919, Marcel Tolkowsky combined the art of cutting with the science of light and refraction and published his book, Diamond Design. These relatively recent geometric calculations were the forerunner of much of diamond cutting work today and led to other, more precise mathematical models engineered to enhance the fire and brilliance of diamonds.

There are now cuts such as the princess cut, trillions, ovals, pear and heart-shaped. Some innovative cutters have even fashioned star or butterfly-shaped diamonds! One patented cut, the Ashoka diamond, is an oblong cut with rounded, brilliant ends, and requires a stone 3 carats or larger. It’s an exceptionally beautiful (and pricey!) diamond shape. Tiffany has also patented a cut of diamond called the Lucida cut. It’s the lucky bride whose fiancé gives her one of these highly coveted stones!

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