The diamond soccer-balls designed using gold and set of natural diamonds is a commemoration of liveliness and splendor.

For sure to enjoy this blingy accessory, soccer players have to compromise at their spirit of kicking high.

Thanks to Bernard Maquin, an eminent designer for offering such pricey fetish as a part of the Charles Hollander Collection.

Irene Neuwirth is a Los Angeles based jewelry designer, who combines high fashion sophisticated style with the finest gems available. Jennifer Anniston, Jessica Alba and Kate Beckinsale are among Irene’s many celebrity clients.
This exquisite bangle bracelet features shimmering pave diamonds atop 18 kt gold, accentuated with 11mm rainbow moonstones. In India moonstone is believed to bring good fortune and help people foretell their future. The Diamond & Moonstone Bangle is available at Barneys and costs $35,840.

24ct Gold Plated – 19 inch Jaguar Alloy Wheels available on goldstriker

A gold-leaf facial is the latest beauty craze among ladies of a certain age.

The Luxe 24 Karat Gold Facial uses the highest grade of gold leaf in an 80-minute procedure which costs $400. The flakes of gold leaf are laid on the face, before being massaged in.

UMO – the company behind the facial – claimed that the procedure will result in firmer, brighter and more supple skin.

The treatment’s use of the metal follows a strong historical tradition. It is said that Cleopatra slept in a gold mask every night, and Chinese empresses supposedly used gold rollers to massage their faces.

Bigger and bolder are the watchwords of the watch industry these days, along with the very real drive to control more and more of the production process.

For Piaget, this is not the whole story , as the brand is trying to have its cake and eat it too.

Over the years, the brand’s expertise in ultra-thin mechanical watches and its investments in its own in-house know-how have been well-documented.

Melted down, a gold Ming Dynasty bowl would sell for about $30,000, twice as much as four years ago. At a Hong Kong auction next month, the imperial vessel may fetch more than HK$60 million ($7.7 million), Sotheby’s said.

Inscribed with dragons and set with pearls, turquoise, rubies and sapphires, the three-legged vessel — made with 1.3 kilograms of 18K gold — is the highlight of Sotheby’s auction of more than 25 gold and precious-metal objects in Hong Kong on April 11, the New York-based auction house said. The lots may raise a combined HK$100 million, said Sotheby’s.[...]

“Timing couldn’t be better,” said Tian Kai, a Beijing- based art dealer. “Gold is all the rage right now.”

Sotheby’s Hong Kong was offered the consignment in mid- January, days before the cut-off date for assembling lots for the auction, said Nicolas Chow, the auction house’s head of Chinese ceramics and artworks. He declined to identify the seller. Several European and Asian private collectors have inquired about the consignment.

“Gold is the most comprehensive marker of luxury in ancient cultures, including the Ming Dynasty,” said Chow. “If fine porcelain from these eras could fetch record prices, there is no reason art made with costlier material couldn’t fare better.”

The record for a Qing ceramic was set in November 2006 when Hong Kong businesswoman Alice Cheng paid HK$151.3 million for a porcelain bowl at a Christie’s International auction. Several private collectors, including casino magnate Stanley Ho, have bought imperial artifacts at auction and donated them to China in the past few years. [...]

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