Upfront #Instagram hashtags to follow #sterlingsilver 5.3 MILLION POSTS #goldchains 586,580 POSTS #jewelleryideas 30,671 POSTS #sapphire 4.4 MILLION POSTS #emerald 4.1 MILLION POSTS #engravedrings 25,533 POSTS #omegawatches 516,899 POSTS #diamonddays 27,577 POSTS #keshipearl 15,777 POSTS #cubanchain 187,600 POSTS HISTORIC GEMSTONE The Rockefeller Sapphire 4The Rockefeller family is one of the most powerful and wealthy in US history and so it should come as no surprise that members of the family became accustomed to the finer things in life. Among them is the Rockefeller Sapphire, a 66-carat internally flawless sapphire with an exceptional ‘cornflower blue’ colour. The gemstone entered into the Rockefeller dynasty in 1934 after John D. Rockefeller, Jr. purchased the sapphire from an Indian Maharajah. In the early 1940s, skilled jewellers Pierre Cartier and Raphael Esmerian, worked together to re-cut the stone into a magnificent brooch, flanked by calibré-cut sapphires and diamonds. When the brooch was sold along with the rest of Rockefeller’s Zurich estate in 1971, it was Esmerian who purchased it for $US170,000. Raphael’s son Ralph would later purchase the gemstone for $US2,850,000 which at that time, was a world record. Trend Spotting 4Pearls are back in a big way. Long thought of as a timeless piece, pearls roll in and out of popularity. Off the back of a busy New York Fashion Week, men sporting pearls as they strutted down the runway was identified as a key highlight. Mikimoto Comme des Garçons; Comme des Garçons Park Ji-min, Tiffany & Co. Stranger Things Weird, wacky and wonderful jewellery news from around the world Gigantic diamond discovered 4Gem Diamonds recently confirmed the discovery of a 122-carat D colour white diamond at the Letseng Mine in Lesotho. This is the first 100-carat diamond to be discovered in <strong>2023</strong>. The rate of larger diamonds discovered has been below average in the past 12 months, with just four 100-carat plus diamonds found. The average since 2008 has been eight per year, per IDEX. Disgraced jewellers possessions 4Luxury items once belonging to disgraced jeweller Nirav Modi will be up for auction. A courtappointed liquidator in India plans to auction precious metals and gemstones belonging to Firestar Diamond International, the company once owned by the former diamond tycoon in order to clear total claims of lenders amounting to more than $US1.5 billion. Modi’s downfall began after he was arrested for his alleged role in financial irregularities. Just because you can afford it, doesn’t mean you should purchase it. People who use buy now, pay later applications experience more stress than those who don’t. Digital Brainwave 4A new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the US has found that users of ‘buy now pay later’ (BNPL) programs experience more financial stress than those who abstain. The report found that 18 per cent of BNPL users had at least one reported delinquency in another account compared with 7 per cent of non-borrowers. Delinquency rates were also higher for credit (9 per cent) and retail cards (8 per cent) among BNPL borrowers against non-users at 3 per cent and 1 per cent, respectively. Campaign Watch 4Tiffany & Co. has unveiled K-pop star Jimin as its newest brand ambassador. The BTS singer, whose full name is Park Ji-min, will appear in his first campaign for the brand within the next three months. The announcement was accompanied by a photo of a shirtless Jimin wearing a black suit and a collection of the brand’s ‘lock’ bracelets. Wait…how old? 4A group of international scientists has claimed the discovery of the world’s oldest diamond, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences. The 0.3mm diamond was found in the rocks of the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, the largest diamond deposit in Russia. The diamond is estimated to be more than 3.6 billion years old. This age was determined using isotopic dating, which is the calculation of the fraction of radioactive decay of elements. 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