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Common Jewelry Terms Glossary
August 24, 2011 | 0 comments »
Amethyst: A common form of quartz. Amethyst is usually purple, but can range in color from pale lavender to a very deep, reddish purple and may have milky white or green inclusions. Deeper-colored amethysts are more highly valued. The name comes from the Greek for "not drunken" as wearing... Read More
Fun Fact Friday! Fact #8
August 19, 2011 | 1 comments »
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) a French mathematician and philosopher was the first person ever reported to wear a watch on their wrist. With his pocket watch and a piece of string, Blaise Pascal attached his pocket watch to his wrist. Also at age eighteen Pascal invented the Pascaline, a numerical wheel... Read More
Fun Fact Friday! Fact #7
August 12, 2011 | 0 comments »
Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand was the first man to conquer Mount Everest with oxygen in 1953, while wearing his Rolex OysterQuartz wristwatch. In 1978 Reinhold Messner & Peter Habeler were the first to conquer Mount Everest without oxygen while also wearing Rolex OysterQuartz wristwatches. Leader of historic British... Read More
Hublot - Black Caviar Bang
August 09, 2011 | 0 comments »
Say hello to the powerful looking sister watch of the Hublot BB. Hublot’s Black Caviar Bang is a rare watch encased with 544 baguette-cut black diamonds... Read More
Fun Fact Friday! Fact #6
July 29, 2011 | 0 comments »
We all know how celebrities love their expensive jewelry, but what kind of watches do they prefer to wear? Celebrities and their watches: *Halle Berry: Franck Muller Casablanca 2852 *Jay-Z: Audemar Piguet Royal Oak Offshore *Britney Spears: Roger Dubuis *Leonardo DiCaprio: Jaeger LeCoultre Master... Read More
The Stunning Hublot BB
July 26, 2011 | 1 comments »
Hublot BB Watch There are only so many times that you see a watch that makes your jaw drop and eyes sparkle simultaneously. One of these watches that we have come across is the Hublot BB Watch. The Hublot BB is without a doubt one of the... Read More
Fun Fact Friday! Fact #5
July 22, 2011 | 0 comments »
In 1868 Patek Philippe created the first Swiss wristwatch, which were originally made for just women. Men thought wristwatches were too feminine and stuck to the normal pocket watch. The first wristwatches which where also called wristlets were made on a bracelet with a pendant. Do you remember your first... Read More
Precious Metals
July 20, 2011 | 1 comments »
Precious Metals Gold: Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It has been used as money and in jewelry for centuries. Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile of the known metals. Gold can be mixed with many... Read More
Fun Fact Friday! Fact #4
July 15, 2011 | 2 comments »
MOST COMPLICATED POCKET WATCH Made in 1989 to celebrate the company’s 150th birthday, the Swiss brand Patek Philippe made the Patek Philippe Calibre 89. Patek Philippe named its mechanical wonder “the most complicated watch in the world.” This timepiece weighs in at 1.1kg. It contains hundreds of bridges, gears, pivots,... Read More
History of Breitling
July 12, 2011 | 0 comments »
1884 – In the Jura Mountains of Switzerland, Leon Breitling opened a workshop specializing in making chronographs and precision counters for scientific and industrial purposes. 1914 – Leon’s son, Gaston Breitling, takes over the firm. 1915 – Gaston Breitling creates the first wristwatch chronograph and subsequently... Read More
