Diamonds & Engagement Rings News

As he is about to make the biggest decision of his life, 23-year old, Tyler Jones accidentally leaves the $3,000 diamond engagement ring on the hood of his girlfriend’s car. From this point the man actually goes from being extremely unlucky to exceedingly lucky when a man riding his Harley-Davidson sees a small black jewelry box on a car in middle of the road.

Tyler’s mother, Karen Jones says, “I never thought we’d see that ring again.”

Days pass as the Jones family turns their house upside-down looking for the ring until they have almost completely given up hope. As their last resort, they placed an ad in the Standard Examiner, being aware of the fact that anybody finding the ring will most probably not want to give back a diamond ring.

What the family certainly did not know was that Monte Kirk had found the ring while riding his Harley one day.

Kirk is quoted saying, “I opened the box and found a diamond ring inside. You don’t find that every day.” Kirk took the ring home to his wife, Debbie, and she said they would stay alert checking the newspaper for anyone missing a ring.

After waiting an entire week, Jones decided to go ahead and propose to Amanda Anderson anyway (with or without the original ring). Saturday afternoon Jones made the verdict to buy another ring and watch for it more carefully this time.

However, Kirk and his wife had seen the ad and were trying to reach Jones and tell him. When Kirk at last got through with Karen Jones answering to him.

“She was so happy,” Kirk said. “Her son works two jobs and was going to propose that very day.”

Kirk asked Karen to describe the ring in detail to make sure it was the right one. When he was sure it was the same ring, Kirk and his wife hopped on the Harley and met Karen Jones at a nearby store.

“He suddenly brought out the ring from behind his back, and I Just started bawling,” she said, “I asked him to follow me over to the bank to give him the ($100) reward. He wouldn’t accept the reward, though.”

Kirk said he never thought of keeping the ring.

Kirk seemed very considerate and sympathetic of the matter and stated, I know my wife would be sick if she lost her ring. There wasn’t anything else to do. It wasn’t rightfully mine. I had to find the owner.”

Later that day Anderson said, “yes” to Jones’ proposal.

Proposing to a girl for marriage with a diamond ring on one knee has been the traditional way to tie the knot. The man goes through the most difficult period in his life on just figuring out how to pop the question to the girl, let alone how big of a rock he can afford. The woman then acts as if she is surprised even though she knew the day was coming and then begins the big scene of crying… But, it seems like this beautiful tradition will soon be replaced by the masses of gay couples that are changing the idea of how a proposal should really happen.

Heather Matarazzo, the actress who is best known for her klutzy role in The Princess Diaries and Welcome to the Dollhouse, is used as the perfect model when she had proposed to her girlfriend, Caroline Murphy, the previous week. Due to having no traditional male-female roles, they had both popped the question to each other at the same time. Lisa Jammal, Matarazzo’s publicist said, “It was so cute. First Heather proposed to Caroline, then Caroline proposed to her!”

         

This new idea can become a huge benefit to the diamond industry. But, other than a solitaire diamond ring there are new designs that are expected to come out. Gemstones such as rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are suggested ideas that can be used for engagement ring designs as either an offset or a replacement for diamonds all together.

Now engagement rings are opening its doors to new looks and designs for anyone type of couple.Â

The famous supermodel, Agyness Deyn is said to be engaged to her boyfriend, Albert Hammond, Jr.

The couple has been reported to be madly in love when they have only been dating for about two months.

A source confirmed the supermodel’s recent state saying, “They just got engaged. It happened within the past few days.”

On June 20th, the couple’s relationship status was made public when Deyn, who is 25, and Strokes guitarist Hammond appeared at the Songwriters Hall of Fame awards gala in New York City holding hands.

The source continued by adding in, They’re really sweet. They basically haven’t been apart for more than three seconds in the past two months.”

This engagement is thought to be one of the fastest celebrity engagements by far.

While walking in the parking lot of the Tysons Corner shopping mall , Keith Stetzer of Fairfax, Virginia had stumbled upon a 3.02 carat platinum diamond engagement ring. Not thinking twice about it, the man noticed the name Mervis imprinted on it and took it straight to Mervis Diamond Importers, which is a Washington DC Jeweler in order to find the owner of the ring. The jeweler appraised the ring at over $40,000.

Keith had stated, “I’m just trying to return something somebody lost. Its not mine. I didn’t earn it.” Jon Mervis collected 20 years of records with customers who had purchased a diamond ring similar in color and clarity to the one found. Almost immediately after the story got to the press, people began calling to claim the ring.

 Mervis began his search for the rightful owner by comparing his claimants’ certificates to the measurements and description of the stone that was found. Only one certificate had passed the test. The piece of evidence that confirmed the match of the certificate to the ring was that the matching certificate showed that the diamond was one of a limited edition diamonds produced in the year 2000 by the Washington DC Jeweler. If the found diamond was actually the same stone, then the diamond should contain the laser inscription, “Mervis 2000.” After examining the diamond under magnification the marking was indeed found on the stone and the match was made.

The Washington DC Jeweler has since been confronted with over a dozen other such cases of either lost or found diamond rings. Jon Mervis decided that since a diamond ring can be something very important and meaningful to a lady, he created an online Diamond Ring Lost and Found site.Â

Black diamonds are known to be very hard to grade and process due to its color. Therefore, black diamonds require high grade of industrial art, which makes people want it more than other diamonds.

Black diamonds, along with green, yellow and red are considered fancy diamonds. What makes colorful diamonds is usually solar radiation. However, black diamonds receive their color through a large amount of small embeddings.

Black diamonds were known to mankind several hundred years before they actually became popular in the nineteen nineties. Since black diamonds are becoming even more famous, the jewelry manufacturing industry is producing the diamonds using radiation.

One of the most famous black diamonds known to history is called ‘Black Orlov’, which was once owned by the Russian princess Nadia Vygin-Orlov.   

                            

The 67-carat cushion cut diamond has been covered in mystery throughout its history ever since. Rumors were spread about the ‘Black Orlov’ being stolen in India and then belonged to the Russian princess. Then there are those others who believe of a curse on the diamond, which had no proof of it.¼/p>

Suspicious agents caught a Georgian man with rough diamonds worth about $200,000, after searching through his luggage.

The Ben Gurion International Airport’s Department of Customs had taken away diamonds worth over NIS 700,000. Unit officers then arrested the Georgian man who took responsibility for the diamonds and tried to smuggle the precious stones into Israel. After being taken to the Magistrate’s court in Ramla the suspect was released under specific circumstances.

Tangis Kikinashvili, the suspect, picked up his suitcase after landing in Israel and passed through the green custom lane, which meant nothing to declare, but raised suspicions of the drug and customs officers. When the customs agents finally opened the luggage, they were left in shock to reveal a large amount of rough diamonds.

After being taken in to Ben Gurion Airport for questioning by the Department of Customs, Kikinashvili had confessed about knowing of the law which required a fee for responsibilities put to customs on particular goods. Kikinashvili had also estimated the value of the diamonds to be around $200,000.

Conversely, the customs unit that are investigating the case claim the worth of the diamonds to be much more than the amount the suspect had estimated. An electronic check done on the man found that he is not part of the Stock Exchange and thus forbidden to trade diamonds in the country.

Moreover, the diamonds had been discovered to be part of an offense committed against the Kimberly Treaty of 2002, which is a worldwide treaty intended to abolish the occurrence of ‘conflict diamonds‘ or ‘blood diamonds‘.

There is a serious concern on how the jewelry industry will endure the downturn. Can it be said that a diamond is a commodity? It is believed that branding will destroy dealer markers for generic diamonds. The Rapaport International Diamond conference for this year will be discussing such issues and other imperative matters concerning the jewelry industry.

The group’s CEO, Martin Rapaport says, “This year’s conference is about survival- your survival. The old game of price, quality and service competition is over. How are you going to compete against a recession, credit crunch and double-digit inflation? The key is strategic thinking. Strategic competition. Those that think smarter will survive. Those that don’t, won’t.”

The conference will include a variety of speakers and topics such as Gerald Celente of The Trends Research Institution (U.S. Economy); Ralph Desitino, Chaiman, Gemological Institute of America (Branding); Neal Goldberg, President and CEO, Zale Corporation (Retailing); Rahul Kadakia, Senior Vice President, Christie’s America (Auction Markets); Rajiv Mehta, CEo, Dimexon Diamonds and Executive Director, Eurostar Diamonds (Diamond Markets); Mark Moeller, CEO, R.F. Moeller Jeweler; President, American Gem Society (Retailing); Martin Rapaport, the Rapaport Group (Commoditization); James E. Shigley, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow, Gemological Institute of America (Technology); Victor van der Kwast, CEO, ABN, AMRO, International Diamond and Jewelry Group (Economy and Finance).

The cost for the conference will begin at $ , along with a formal luncheon for $. Lastly is a special Hotel/Conference Package offered for $599. The package includes a special one night deluxe room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The earnings from the conference will be donated to the Jewelers of Children and the non-profit Fair Trade Diamond and Jewelry Association.

The very well known company with its owner who is popularly known as Jacob the Jeweler is sewing Wyclef Jean for over $300,000 for watches and jewelry that was bought from the company.

Jacob Arabo may be locked up in prison for the next 2 1/2 years for denying the involvement in a drug ring to federal investigators, but that definitely doesn’t stop him from continuing his business.

On Tuesday, the company filed papers in Manhattan Supreme Court saying that the former singer, Wyclef Jean purchased a number of items going back to March 2002, until January 2006, with the total amount adding to, $765,100.

Although, the singer has not yet finished the payments fir the entire sum, leaving him in debt for another $319,680. The New York Daily News described the complaint of the company by quoting them asking for, “repeated demands for payment.”

Several purchases, which Wyclef made, included a Chopard watch worth $225,000, 4.85- carat diamond stud earrings costing $30,000, and a diamond Jesus head for $12,000.

Arabo, who is also identified as the King of Bling in the hip-hop world is especially famous for doing business with bejeweled stars such as, Eva Longoria, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Madonna, Elton John, Kanye West and Sean Diddy Combs.   

Representatives of Wyclef had not responded right away, when contacted through email.

Wyclef Jean has been very involved in helping out his country, Haiti, through his foundation called Yele Haiti, which successfully raised millions of dollars for the cause of providing food, creating jobs, and supporting local cultivation.

Wyclef also started a project called, “Together for Haiti” and on his website, described the charitable project as an “emergency allegiance for food crisis relief.”Â

The Apple iPhone has just been released worldwide and it already comes out- simultaneously with the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing- with a luxury version to it having 88 diamonds surrounding the phone. The 88 diamonds represent double wealth in the world of the superstitious Chinese.

This brilliant new model phone, for those wealthy people who don’t want to be common, costs $8,219. Chinese people would especially be hyped by the 88-diamond model iPhone. Chinese people pay small fortunes simply to have the number eight on their license plates or their phone number.

                                        

The number eight has been in trendy forever. Moreover, the Olympic Games’ opening date is set for 8/8/08 at 8 p.m. De Vere of London has been trying to create and design a luxury phone that is not too much, and which is rare. Philip De Vere thought that the iPhone had come out at a perfect timing with its slick back and its unique style. Adding some diamonds to the phone makes it “Very chic and glamorous.”

Generally, the maximum amount of diamonds that can be set in the iPhone is from 25 to 425. Choices of patterns, quantity, or layouts can vary. Additional options and exclusive designs may include sapphires, rubies, and emeralds as well.