How do you create a consumer brand in a business ruled by dry specs like carats and megahertz?
It's made of platinum and features a GIA certified radiant cut diamond weighing 10.04 carats.
Rough diamond production for the period increased 8 percent to 800, 000 carats for the period.
The Renard project has probable mineral reserves that total 18 million carats, with 17.5 million carats inferred.
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Upstairs in her showroom is a square Yves Klein glass table filled with 46, 000 carats of loose aquamarines.
Ring mounted with a heart-shaped diamond weighing 2 carats to the tapered baguette-cut diamond shoulders with plain hoop.
Experts say it has since been determined that they were cut from a single pink diamond weighing 242 carats.
Leading the sale is a pair of unmounted round brilliant-cut D flawless diamonds, weighing 35.77 and 35.61 carats each.
Goldman's collection also includes a fancy, intense yellow diamond pendant, weighing 67.87 carats.
The project has probable mineral reserves of 18 million carats and a further 17.5 million carats in the inferred category.
Hughes set a record in 2011 for crafting an iPhone 4S with 500 individual diamonds, totaling more than 100 carats.
The watch is covered with 1, 282 diamonds, including six square cut stones that weigh more than three carats each .
The Amosu Curva was made up of 4, 494 VS1 diamonds totaling about 28 carats set in a coat of 18-karat gold.
The size of a duck's egg, with 184 carats, the seventh largest diamond in the world was used as a paperweight.
Gross margins at branded jewelry retailers like Tiffany and Cartier hover at roughly 50% for diamonds up to around 5 carats.
Production from its independently-owned and joint venture operations in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Canada yielded approximately 33 million carats in 2010.
Among the colored diamond highlights is an oval-cut fancy intense yellow, internally flawless diamond of 68.35 carats with excellent polish and symmetry.
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What does 50 carats feel like in the palm of your hand?
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Case in point: the so-called Rojtman diamond, weighing in at 107.46 carats.
The final lot was a rare fancy reddish-orange diamond of 3.15 carats.
It is set with 719 diamonds, weighing a total of 2, 000 carats.
Rough diamond output, for the period ended March 31, dropped to 500, 000 carats compared to 600, 000 carats for the same period last year.
The increase was the result of an improved sales mix, partially offset by a 3 percent decrease in volume of carats sold during the quarter.
Consider a necklace in the 1990 Bulgari Collection Internationale: It featured 84 carats of rubies and 674 carats of emerald beads, embellished with diamond-set rondelles.
Production, however, rose about 65 percent to 14.5 million carats in the first half, mainly on higher grades recovered at its Kagem mine in Zambia.
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The baroque drop-shaped natural pearl weighing 239.7 grains (59.92 carats) is set with a diamond foliate surmount and comes with a 42-cm. long diamond chain.
At 545.67 carats, it outweighs the Cullinan I by 15.37 carats.
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The non-resource exploration upside stands between 23.5 to 48.5 million carats.
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For seekers of fine gemstones other than diamonds, there are some spectacular choices as well, such as an unmounted oval-cut sapphire weighing almost 40 carats.
Also commanding a powerful price was a 10-carat, D color, internally flawless pear-shaped diamond flanked on either side by a pear-shaped diamond, each weighing approximately 1.02 carats.
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