March 11th, 2008
How would you like to own a credit card with a solitaire diamond embedded in it? Can you imagine the look on the faces of your fellow diners when you casually whip it out and hand it over to the waiter to pay the bill? And, to make things even better, there is no pre-set spending limit on the card.
Before you go running to apply, here’s the catch – the Dubai First Royale MasterCard is by invitation only and as the name “Royale” suggests is only for the VVIPs of UAE society and the movers and shakers of the business world.
Ravi Bhardwaj, country corporate officer, Dubai First, told Emirates Business: “Our Royale MasterCard is by invitation only and it is for a select group of people, who represent the upper echelons of the business and social community.
February 19th, 2008
The 14 pink sapphires celebrate Valentine’s Day, and the heart set with 3 pink sapphires at 2 o’clock symbolizes the love of February.
As unique as your lady, this watch can be customized by replacing the pink sapphires with diamonds or blue sapphires, and to put a cabochon of a precious stone in the heart, or even to choose a bracelet that matches the dial.
A Luz Flamingo dial in encased in a stainless steel case. Powered by ETA quartz or mechanical hand wound Piguet 8.10, 17 pink sapphires add oomph to this purely feminine timepiece.
February 16th, 2008
Peter Aloisson has released a new design in the “way too expensive and over-the-top” cell phone category: the diamond studded gold Motorola V3i. The golden stainless steel case is hand-set with 855 diamonds, totaling 3.8 carats altogether. Of course it comes with all the same cool features as the regular Motorola V3i, and sells for $10,000.
February 16th, 2008
Softbank Mobile is in the process of launching their new line of 15 cell phones, one of which was created in collaboration with Tiffany & Co. Japan Inc.
The new handset is encrusted with more than 400 diamonds totaling 20+ carats and will cost about $94,000.
The phone is available starting this month in Japan, with the complete line of new phones to be launched by the end of March.
December 27th, 2007
Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats (or five million trillion trillion pounds).
The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter.
The stone is located at a distance of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus.
