As the jewelry trends move more and more towards natural beauty—while still maintaining a level of opulence—Luca Carati has created the Ginza Collection, named for the famous Tokyo shopping district known for its luxurious, fashionable boutiques.
Among the items for sale is a lot of 56 coloured diamonds, certified as fancy deep, vivid, and intense pink, yellow, blue, and green. At 14.67 carat weight, it is expected to sell for between $1.35 and $1.9 million. However, the biggest enticement for buyers to come is a 20.70 carat. D-Flawless diamond pendant mounted with a 10.07 carat pear-shaped D-Internally Flawless diamond.
But Thai jewelry designer Riwin Jirapolsek has done them all one better. Over two months, he designed a $4.2 million tiara for his 15 year-old male Maltese. The piece, created with titanium and encrusted with 250 carats worth of diamonds and emeralds, was featured at a dog runway show in Bangkok.
Portland, Maine 04101: A Portland-based shipwreck hunter has found what he believes to be a ship torpedoed during World War II by a German U-boat off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Greg Brooks and his partners filed a claim on the wreck in the US District Court in Portland, Maine, saying that he and his crew intend to begin the salvage within a few weeks.
A Russian collector, Alexander Ivanov, is set to open a museum in Germany that will display Faberge eggs and other luxury Faberge items, many of them crafted with diamonds and precious gemstones.
Actor Sean Connery is expected to appear in a Swiss court regarding a 1972 business transaction that he is accused of handling badly. He is being sued by the family of a developer to whom he lent $4 million over thirty years ago.
Although President George W. Bush has not been very popular with foreign countries, that doesn’t stop world leaders from showering him and his administration with extravagant—and odd—gifts. This year, Bush received a $150 bronze platypus paperweight from an Australian official, a $570 brush-cutter from the Swedish Prime Minister, and, from the Prime Minister of Singapore, the President was given $450 worth of exercise equipment, including a “uSurf Wave Action Exerciser” and an “iGallop Core and Abs Exerciser”. Is Singapore trying to tell him something?
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