Creative Rings from Piaget

Company Piaget (Piaget) presented an interesting collection of cocktail rings.Colorful, with an interesting design, they resemble cocktails.Cocktail Mojito, Whiskey on the Rocks, Cosmopolitan, White Tonic, Blue Ocean n Blueberry Daiquiri. The collection features six rings, each named after one of the most popular drinks: Cocktail Mojito, Whiskey on the Rocks, Cosmopolitan, White Tonic, Blue Ocean and Blueberry Daiquiri.

$46 Million Worth Pink Diamond

The diamond is surely worth its latest price of £29 ($46) million, though it has set a new record for gems at the latest Sotheby’s auction in Geneva. David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and the Middle East jewelry department, when announcing the auction’s world record price for a gem, compared it to pink champagne.

It’s a rare kind, considered to be flawless, of a color described as “fancy intense pink”, and weighing 24.78 carats. The stone is set onto a platinum ring.

London-based diamond dealer Laurence Graff turned out to be the lucky buyer, having put in a bid of the breathtaking sum over the phone. Interviewed about his new acquisition, he said that he is delighted with it because it is the most “fabulous” diamond he has ever come across.

Actually the jewel’s new owner is so besotted with it that from now on the stone is to be known as the “Graff Pink”.

Strange Neck Rings

Padaung or Kayan Lahwi is a group of the Karenni people, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Burma. Women start wearing the brass neck coils at the age of five.

Each coil is replaced with longer coils as the weight of the brass pushes the collar bone down and compresses the rib cage. Contrary to popular belief, the neck is not actually lengthened; the illusion of a stretched neck is created by the deformation of the clavicle.

Many ideas regarding why the coils are worn have been suggested. One of them is the coils might be meant to protect from tiger bites. Kayan women, when asked, acknowledge these ideas, but often say that their purpose for wearing the rings is cultural identity (one associated with beauty).