Coloured Gemstones Weigh Heavily Against Traditional Jewels And Regain New Life

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< p > recently, high-end jewellery, which is mainly composed of red, green and blue three jewels, has become the favorite of ladies again.

The reasons are as follows: first, the extreme scarcity of jewelry caters to the unique pursuit of people; secondly, the progress of identification technology makes people regain confidence; finally, the investment potential of jewelry is the biggest source of power for people.

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< p > in short, high end jewellery has made a comeback, and these long and rare precious stones have once again become the focus.

For example, a high-end jewelry necklace recently launched by Bvlgari has used a lot of sapphire to reshape its brilliance. It uses a total of 165.81 carat sapphire beads to form a necklace with deep red and yellow brown tourmaline, and a 180.98 carat complete sapphire with a total of 278 carat emerald beads to make a pendant.

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< p > the rebirth of traditional jewellery marks the return of industry and consumer demand.

Because large colored gemstones are very scarce, they have high potential investment value as mobile assets.

The same texture of emerald is often 20 times less than that of diamonds.

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< p > Bayco is an American jewelry brand website. It is very professional in managing high-end jewellery made of rare gemstones.

Its partner, Moris Hadjibay, said that the price of fine, flawless and cut cut jewellery has doubled in the past three or four years, while the price of superior emerald has increased by 50% in the past six months alone.

Guy Clutterbuck, who works in Dublin, is a bold old school jewel hunter. He doesn't look like a significant figure, but he just finished trading in a manual mine.

In his view, the price of gemstones has risen by 30% to 40% in the past two years, and he believes that the value of sapphire is still underestimated.

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< p > the most important factor affecting the price is obviously the favor of colored gemstones. One of the two important drivers of premium is scarcity.

Natural and coloured gemstones are rare as well as unmatched colors and large sizes.

Hadjibay gives an example. Only 1% of Burma ruby is counted as a top grade, and no flawless jewels are almost impossible to find.

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< p > another pushing hand is the ancestral gem, or the gems dug up from the famous mines long ago, and the mines in Kashmir, Burma and Columbia are now being discontinued or unable to produce the same quality gemstones.

Jewelers, therefore, are keen to search for antiques or top jewellery from "old houses" and sell them at auction or as personal collections.

As one of the most influential jewelry buyers in the world, Alisa Moussaieff even bought jewelry from its customers.

David Bennett is the director of Sotheby's auctioneer's jewelry department in Europe and the Middle East. He is in charge of Sotheby's business in Switzerland. He is very optimistic about the earrings in 1921. He was not only a royal property but also a 11 karat top Burma ruby, which was sold in Geneva in November 14th.

According to estimates, the value of these earrings is far more than 3330500 Swiss francs, or about 2239931 pounds.

"Gem production is still an important factor affecting prices," he said.

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Less than P, another factor is the fact that diamonds have always been on the bright side because of their dazzling splendor. Although it has dropped slightly in 2008, it has now reached astronomical figures.

In order to make profits, cunning buyers have already collected many excellent D grade diamonds in the safe.

Now they turn their attention to coloured gemstones.

With the deepening of their understanding, they realized that the coloured gemstones had great revaluation.

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< p > Robert Procop is a gem hunter who works in Losangeles. He also believes that sapphire has the most potential.

A good quality unprocessed sapphire sells for between 200 thousand and 400 thousand pounds, while a diamond of the same size needs 1 million 500 thousand pounds.

In the recent orders he received, the demand for antique coloured gemstones with over 10 carats or above was doubled, and the purchase and sale of such jewels had become his main job.

"It may be because the price of these jewels is lower than that of diamonds, of course, partly because of the progress of identification technology, which makes the consistency of certification results even higher."

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In the past ten years, Robert has witnessed the development of the industrial chain. The links between mine owners, cutting artists, gem hunters, merchants and jewelry collectors are closer than that in the US western gold rush era, and this is also urging the jewelry industry to become more standardized. "P"

He exchanges with mine owners and cutters every day: "today, coloured gemstones are sold more coherently and are comparable to diamond trading."

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< p > Tiffany has been trading directly with the producing areas of rare colored gemstones.

In the early twentieth Century, George Frederick Kunz, a famous gemologist, devoted himself to the identification, naming and introduction of new jewellery types, such as the spodumene discovered in California, in the United States, named after Kunzite in its name, and the peach Morgan Stone discovered in Madagascar, named after the famous banker and collector of rare gem JP Morgan.

Kunz is a well deserved jeweller hunter who takes a passionate and adventurous spirit across mountains, across the desert, from the Russian mineral rich Ural mountains to the jungle of South Africa, looking for treasures hidden in the world.

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< p > Melvyn Kirtley was Tiffany's chief gemologist and currently vice president of Europe.

He explained to us the importance of the relationship between the gem purchasing team and the mine owners, dealers and cutters.

"Mutual cooperation in this work is very important.

It's hard to see how much time we need to find top jewels.

The industry of colored gemstones has not been aggregated, and thousands of miners and cutters are scattered.

It's all about relationships. It's about who can choose the first gem. "

The scale of artificial mining is not large, but the top quality jade is mainly distributed in Vietnam, Kampuchea, Russia's Ural mountains and Afghanistan's PANI Hill.

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< p > Gemfields is the world's leading coloured gemstone manufacturer. It has introduced the famous Zambia emerald and Amethyst to the market. Now it has extended its tentacles to Mozambique ruby, and hopes to establish credit and norms in the original coloured gemstone market, so that the downstream businesses in the whole industry chain can benefit from this set of rules, and the increase of market confidence is also promoting the growth of the industry.

About ten years ago, the advent of jewellery dyeing technology led to a lack of confidence in the market for a long time. Now, these are all over. Over a certain weight of top jewellery will be accompanied by certificates, including origin, processing methods and identity card numbers.

Procop said customers are happy to purchase these jewellery because of the booming two tier market.

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< p > colored gemstones must also consider the place of production.

Today, some of the world's most precious gem mines have dried up, such as the valley of Burma, but others are still producing, such as Columbia's Muzo, which relied on its jewelry brand Muzo International to regenerate its vitality in 2009.

The most staggering case is also about the ruby ruby. Graff Diamonds spent more than 3 million 500 thousand dollars in 1987 to buy a 15.97 carat pigeon blood ruby, which was the best ruby in the world.

According to President Francois Graff, they have bought and sold the ruby three times, and the latest paction price is 5 times the original price.

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< p > Graff has entered the coloured gem industry very strongly.

Although Laurence Graff, a brand creator, has been famous for buying the emerald ring of Duke of Windsor, Graff jewelry has always been famous for its diamonds. This time, they decided to enter the coloured gemstone industry.

Kashmir sapphire, ruby and Mughal style emerald are the leading characters of jewelry.

Speaking of the recent rising demand in the Asian market, Francois Graff said: "they are beginning to appreciate colored jewels, and are aware of the scarcity and investment value of these precious stones."

Graff's gem hunter is also looking for antique jewels.

Recently, they found a 46.81 carat top sapphire on an antique brooch, whose shape, color and pparency increased their prices to a certain extent.

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< p > Laurence Graff describes colored jewels as "half concealed", because only elite buyers who possess relevant knowledge, discriminating ability and artistic taste will be attracted by them, while collecting them is also a symbol of identity.

Knowledgeable jewelry buyers can feel the uniqueness of each gem. They are addicted to the subtle balance of color and luster, and the ingenious balance between bright and pparent.

As Patti Wong, director of the Asian diamond department of Sotheby's, said, "selecting a superior coloured gemstone is very delicate. Like red wine, you must understand those very abstract concepts and recall the level of color, luster and pparency.

Every buyer has to accept this challenge and see if they have such a "eye piercing eye".

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< p > in the many contemporary gemstone collectors, appraisers and < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > designer < /a >, Alexandre Reza seems to have inherent talent.

In his early years, he was an internationally renowned jeweller who intervened in the gem industry for many years.

His son, Olivier, is a banker. He has not done jewellery business now, and has opened a private salon in van den square, Paris. I still remember the brilliant jewels and majestic Royal decorations.

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< p > Olivier grew up in the world of jewels. When I was a child, I went to see mine with my parents.

In his view, coloured gemstones can be seen everywhere, compared with five years ago.

At the same time, he also felt that more and more people valued the production of precious stones. The stones of Kashmir, Burma and Columbia would be revalued, as Africa began to produce gems, such as ruby of Mozambique and Tanzania, sapphires of Madagascar, and emerald of Zambia.

But compared with those long history mines, although African jewels are of good quality, they have no design brand and price tag.

In fact, where gemstone should not be a factor affecting prices.

I often find that a sapphire in Ceylon is much more beautiful than the gem produced in Kashmir.

Buyers should believe in their tastes and seize opportunities. "

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Less than four years ago, Nadine Barbey seized the opportunity to start her own jewellery business, P.

Prior to working on high-end custom jewelry at Van Cleef & Arpels, Nadine understood the needs of elite customers.

She offers advice to customers, sells jewelry and searches for collections, many of them Royal.

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< p > as a professional gemstone buyer, designer and jeweler, she has created an unusual business mode to establish partnership with mine owners and suppliers. From Asia's Ruby, Sri Lanka sapphire to emerald in Columbia and black opal in Australia, the partnership ensures the quality of gemstones.

In her view, black opal has great potential for growth and huge investment potential in Africa.

She is especially interested in producing Ruby and spinel in Central Africa, because the natural environment there is very good: "the ruby produced here is lighter than Burma, and does not contain light brown impurities. The color is very beautiful."

According to her, the ban on GEM export in Burma has little impact on Europe and has a negative impact on the United States, because prices have indeed been pushed up.

But China is always an exception. The Chinese have always been in favor of ruby, and it seems that all the new jewels are in the bag.

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< p > Claudio Ribeiro is an outstanding jewel hunter. He was born in Portugal and worked in Hongkong. She only works in rare diamonds and ruby, and directly deals with mines, bare drills and cutting workers, and then sells them to private collectors.

Because he was an investment banker before, he knew very well the investment potential of top jewellery.

He enjoyed the passion of looking for precious stones. He often spent a lot of time lying in Burma, analyzing the composition of the sediment in the mine and waiting for the "small stones" produced in the valley.

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< p > he thinks Mozambique's Ruby has great potential. "Last year, their prices skyrocketed."

But Burma remains the focus of his work. Over the past four years, he has collected 11 rare natural pigeon blood ruby, including a Burma largest pigeon blood ruby, over 20 carats.

Recently, he plans to sell these collections and will look for potential buyers in private tour exhibitions.

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< p > there is no doubt that the recent price push to astronomical figures is Chinese buyers.

In May, a 6.04 carat Burma Ruby set a price record of 551500 dollars per carat at Christie's auction in Hongkong.

However, according to Fran C OIS Curiel, President of Christie's Asia, prices still have room for improvement. He explained: "in the long run, the price of the top colourless diamonds will reach $200 thousand per carat, while the colourless diamond will reach $2 million.

Coloured gemstones will obviously be more attractive when collectors all over the world are looking for precious and valuable precious stones.

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