Why an emerald’s flaws are its certificate
Almost every emerald contains inclusions. The trade calls them jardin — garden — and a stone without them is more suspicious than a stone with.
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Notes from the bench
On inclusions, on eleven-week cuffs, on why the least showy stone in the vault outsells the rest.
The eleven weeks inside a diamond cuff
Three hundred and forty-two stones, set by two people at a microscope. A record of how long luxury actually takes.
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Setting colour against gold: an argument the house keeps having
Yellow gold flatters warm stones and fights cold ones. Our head of design has been losing this argument, deliberately, for nine years.
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On the anatomical heart
The least explicable and most requested piece we make. A note on what people actually buy when they buy jewellery.
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One eternity band, three waters
London Blue, Swiss Blue and the white-gold original. The same nineteen stones behave like three different pieces.
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The case for the black diamond stud
Opaque, carbonado, and our best-selling earring by a distance. Why the least showy stone in the vault outsells the rest.
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The pieces in question
From the bench
The pieces in question
The references the journal keeps returning to.
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