Music Bank offers CrystalRoc's bejeweled guitars, drums and mics

 

Music Bank, the famous backline rental resource in Europe, has teamed up with CrystalRoc to supply its clients with an exclusive range of high-end, ultra-designer equipment, which includes Swarovski-studded musical instruments. CrystalRoc is famous for creating inimitable musical instruments for A-list musicians, including Leona Lewis, The Pussycat Dolls, Kylie Minogue, Mötley Crüe, The Feeling and Girls Aloud. Rihanna has performed with a CrystalRoc Sennheiser mic at the American Music Awards, and it was made of 24 carat gold and festooned with Swarovski crystals…they really sparkle like diamonds. CrystalRoc founder and designer Morten Schjolin said, “Luxurious things are not luxurious because they are expensive, but because they are unique and created with a passion for the exceptional. The CrystalRoc collection is exactly that.” The new, exclusive range features a custom Gibson Les Paul guitar, a full DW Drums drum kit, a 50th Anniversary Gibson Flying V guitar decked out with Jet Hematite crystals and a set of Sennheiser mics.

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French Jeweler Gives Away Free Diamonds In Japan

It was a quite the scene in Tokyo on Monday when people linked up to get free diamonds. French jeweler Mauboussin gave away .1 carat diamonds in order to drum up attention for their brand. People came from surrounding cities to line up for the promotion. The tiny diamonds are worth about $50 each. The Maboussin flagship Japan store opened in the Ginza shopping area earlier this year but found that they weren't getting a lot of foot traffic because the store's name was basically unknown. Maboussin will make any free diamond into a ring or pendant but that will cost around $500.

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An Intimate Wedding Proposal

 

Dear Whiteflash Sales Team,

I proposed to my now-fiancée this past weekend. It was just the two of us. Casual and intimate. As a surprise, I brought home ice cream from this little ice cream shop that we visited for our first date. We shared ice cream and memories of our first date before I told her I had another surprise for her. That's when I grabbed the ring, got down on my knee, and told her how much I loved her and asked her to marry me!

By the way, my fiancée loves the diamond!

Thanks,
Ken

 

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Diamond Roaring Tiger Watch

 

The newest men's jewelry timepiece from Swiss Angular Momentum is this Roaring Tiger watch based on the Time Gallery watch case line. The piece is pleasantly subdued, though still embodies the spirit of jewelry timepieces with 1.81 carats of diamonds around the bezel on the 18k pink gold 41.7mm wide case. The mean attraction is of course the high relief engraved tiger - done in an Eastern style and shown roaring against a black Japanese Lacquer dial. The watch is attached to a black alligator strap and gold buckle.

Angular Momentum continues to refine the time disc shown through the aperture window. this time in black with the same stylized font for the numerals. It is not a watch for precision time reading, but use it enough and you can tell the time within a few minutes. Inside is Angular Momentum's standard automatic mechanical movement. It is really another wonderfully artistic watch from the maker who seems to focus on imagining new ways to make luxury watches frames for beautiful art.

 

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Jeweled Objects of Desire exhibition calls serious collectors

 

For the serious collectors who are still very much passionate about discovering one-off objects and works of fine art, the Jeweled Objects of Desire exhibition, which continues through July 31, is the place to be. The exhibition organized at the Headley-Whitney Museum will feature works of art from veteran artists including San Francisco-based jewelry designer Sidney Mobell, who is known for lending his Midas touch to ordinary stuff like mouse traps and turning them into extraordinary works of art. Besides a glittering 14 carat gold and diamond mouse trap, his other outrageous work includes a gold garbage can, gold toilet seat, $2 million monopoly set made in rubies, diamonds, sapphires and gold, a gold-plated mailbox, and an elaborate gold and diamond pacifier. Mobell, who grew up in an orphanage in Denver, Colorado, enthralled the art lovers with his unique perception of art and earned himself a place in the in the Guinness Book of World Records. Jeweled Objects of Desire will be on exhibit at the Headley-Whitney Museum through July 31, 2009.

 

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Dazzle Your Love Life with Tiffany Inspired Jewelry from Whiteflash.com

Love is precious, sweet, and unique too. This is the reason why people often opt for designer engagement ring when one has to propose something special to his/her sweetheart. The market of engagement ring is vast, and it offers unique yet amazing design and styles for your special someone. Dazzle your love life with a diamond engagement Tiffany Rings created by you as it will truly express your feelings.

This type of engagement ring can give you and your would-be-bride a reason to smile. There are many benefits attached with getting your ring designed. The first and the foremost benefit is that you can gift your lover something in a manner, which displays your love. When you get your ring designed, you can choose the stone as well as the band of your choice. This way you can form a very attractive and interesting design.

Whiteflash.com allows you to design your own engagement ring by just following simple steps. Customers have the option to choose any certified diamond and can get it set in either a platinum ring or gold setting. But before buying designer engagement rings, one should keep in mind the budget limitations.  

You can tell the designer about what you actually want to see in your diamond ring. After all, you give an engagement ring only once in life. And sometimes these engagement rings become a valuable family rings and passes from one generation to the other.

Engagement is the best thing which can happen to any relationship. And to make it special you need to choose the right engagement ring from a certified online jewelry store. We know the value of quality advice and assistance and are committed to helping you make the right decision and educating you on your diamond purchase.

 

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Natural-color diamonds hold margins, value

Jewelers looking for a product that sets their store apart and holds its own when it comes to margins might want to try natural-color diamonds, retailers told an audience of hundreds at a breakfast event held on Friday morning during the JCK Las Vegas show.

For the event, titled "The Language of Color," Natural Color Diamond Association (NCDIA) Executive Director Robert May and consultant Diane Warga Arias, of DWA Communications, introduced four retail jeweler panelists, who then spent about an hour sharing stories of selling natural-color diamonds in their stores.

At Wick and Greene Jewelers in Ashville, N.C., owner Michael Greene told the story of a professional athlete who entered his store looking for an anniversary gift for his wife when a display of natural-color diamonds caught his eye.

He gave his a wife a piece showcasing the stones and it was a success, so much so that the wife is now requesting additional natural-color diamond jewelry as a gift to mark the upcoming birth of their first child.

"Natural-color diamonds--they are the ultimate colored gemstones," Greene said.

In addition to being a favorite among customers, natural-color diamonds--unlike colorless diamonds--cannot be shopped on price, Greene said, which allows jewelers to obtain greater margins with these stones.

"There are no Rap lists or other comparative lists for our fancy natural-color diamonds," he said.

"If you sell something that can be compared, the consumer is going to see if there is a better value out there for them," he said.

He sold a customer a five-carat natural fancy yellow diamond ring simply because she fell in the love with the piece and, though she tried, couldn't find anything exactly like it anywhere else.

Natural-color diamonds hold their value--they have doubled in value every 10 years since the 1970s--and have their place in history.

Recently, a 7.03-carat blue diamond sold at Sotheby's set the per-carat record price for a gemstone sold at auction, and some of the world's best-known diamonds are natural-color stones, including the Hope Diamond, the Tiffany Diamond and celebrity-gifted stones, such as singer Jennifer Lopez's pink engagement ring from ex-fiancé Ben Affleck.

The stones also are rare--only one in 10,000 stones that come out of the ground are considered natural-color diamonds.

When asked about how to market natural-color diamonds, retailer Alfredo Molina, of the Phoenix-based Molina Group, said that to sell natural-color diamonds, retailers have to advertise that they carry them.

He said he recently had success advertising a yellow diamond on The Robb Report.

George Walton, of Golden Diamond Co. in Anchorage, Alaska, said that traditional ways of marketing, such as advertising in the newspapers, don't work for natural-color diamonds, just as they don't work for general advertising anymore.

He recommends that retailers "step out of the box" and embrace new forms of advertising when marketing natural-color diamonds.

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