Jeweller - April 2022

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HISTORIC GEMSTONE
The Hope Pearl
4Weighing 450-carats, the Hope Pearl was
believed to be the largest natural saltwater
pearl in the world and was one of the first
acquisitions of nineteenth-century gem
collector and banker Henry Philip Hope, who
had acquired many famous gemstones and
diamonds for his collection including the
famous Hope Diamond.
This large, natural pearl is uniquely colored
greenish-gold to white and has been
classified as a blister pearl, which grows
attached to the mollusk’s shell.
Today, the Hope Pearl is the property of an
anonymous private collector from England
who has loaned it to be displayed at the
British Museum of Natural History.
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Trend Spotting
4Chunky layered chokers and
oversized gemstones are stealing the
show. From Versace's 2022 runway
collection to the recent SAG Awards,
knuckle-duster rings and jumbo
gems have been spotted everywhere.
Resort-style glamour never went away,
and local jewellery designers such as
Brisbane-based Christie Nicolaides
have pieces that suit the red carpet or
a boat party through the Greek islands.
Image credit: Instagram @christienicolaides
Image: Tiffany & Co
Stranger Things
Weird, wacky and wonderful
jewellery news from around the world
Diamonds out of thin air?
4New lab-created diamond
manufacturer Aether has said it
uses Swiss technology to pull the
carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
to create diamonds. To date, no
company has been able to claim that
it extracts 20 metric tons of CO2 from
the air for every one carat of diamond.
In a two-part process, the diamonds
need a reactor to extract CO2 out
of the air which then becomes the
raw material in a reactor where the
diamonds are grown.
Carats in ranch dressing
4A diamond made from ranch
dressing recently sold for US$12,550
on eBay as a 'limited edition item'
with 79 bidders vying for the unusual
piece of jewellery. Hidden Valley
Ranch commissioned a diamond
manufacturer to create a two-carat
round-brilliant synthetic diamond
and set it into a 14-carat white gold
band. "Hidden Valley Ranch Lover'
(HVR LVR) is engraved on the inside
of the shank.
Who am I? Just
about the best
navigational
discovery app in a
'roundabout waze'.
Get on your Waze
4Waze is a navigational app with over 130
million active users a month who rely on it to
get real-time information of road accidents,
closed roads and location of police and
speed cameras. Due to its accuracy of usergenerated
information and geo-targeting,
businesses can also take advantage of anyone
making a drive by your store.
For example, Waze has multiple advertising
options for jewellers who may want to use
branded pins, arrows and promoted searches
to stand out to passing traffic. Other curious
users can tap on your branded pin and
discover your business.
Campaign Watch
4K-pop sensation Rosé of girl group
Blackpink reprises in Tiffany & Co's
latest HardWear campaign as the
brand's global ambassador for her
second year running. Set to launch
in July, the new diamond pavé-set gold
designs are based on a throwback to
the 1971 bracelet from The Tiffany
Archive where designs were functional,
architectural and bold.
There's more to Mercury
4Billions of years of meteorite impact
may have turned Mercury’s surface
into diamonds according to scientist
Kevin Cannon. Computer simulations
were used to predict impacts that may
have transformed one-third of the
planet’s crust into a diamond stockpile.
The findings show that if Mercury had
surface graphite 300 meters thick, it
would have generated 16 quadrillion
tons of diamonds — about 16 times
Earth’s reserves. An opportunity to
scout for diamonds may come in 2025.
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