Leibish & Co., unveiled its World of Colors guide for identifying fancy colored diamonds in New York Thursday (January 19). A day earlier, I spoke privately with Leibish Polnauer, the president and ...

The Fortune Pink, an 18.18-carat fancy vivid pink diamond fetched $28.5 million at Christie’s Geneva auction The Geneva jewelry auctions held Tuesday and Wednesday cast a shadow over what was up until ...

Is the global turmoil driving sales of portable assets? Or is it just a love of rare jewels? By Jill Newman Alisa Moussaieff was in her London office on May 14, having lunch and bidding over the phone ...

What’s the deal with coloured diamonds, and what makes certain colours unique? According to the world’s leading diamond experts and enthusiasts, there aren’t many pure and natural coloured diamonds in ...

White diamonds are still the stones of choice for engagement rings. But colored diamonds are catching up. Last month the Gemological Institute of America, one of the largest independent ...

Each year, millions of visitors crowd around a display case in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for a glimpse of one of the most legendary gemstones in the world: the ...

A clear, sparkling diamond is engrained in the minds of many women around the world as being the symbol of everlasting love, while for some men it is the requisite token bought to signify a proposal ...

Relatively small, but slowly and perfectly formed over billions of years, the Argyle Violet diamond is so rare in color that it has its own unique diamond classification: “Fancy Deep Grayish Blueish ...

The desire and market for coloured diamonds has grown as knowledge and awareness about these rare stones enters the mainstream. And no one understands this shift better than Éclat Diamond, which is ...

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, ...