The finery - jewelry, diamond engagement rings, eternity rings

At first, there are a few historical facts. There are common, traditional, round bracelets which in the Middle Ages were considered as a symbol of well-being.
Bracelets as open-ended rings in the XVIII century were used by women of fashion to fix gloves.
The bracelets decorated with charms were especial popular in the days of Queen Victoria when they were decorated with talismans for success.
And small chains with engravings were traditionally used in armies.

Choosing a bracelet, take into account the size, as too narrow one will leave a trace on a skin and too wide will simply slide off. The main rule: the distance between a bracelet and a wrist should correspond to width of one finger.
Choosing a bracelet as a chain, check up links and pay attention to fastener, this is quite often a weak spot of a bracelet.

Ring is one of the very first thought up ornaments. Initially they have no decorative function. Rings demonstrated membership of a social level.

In the XXI century we choose rings according to our taste, following only to fashionable tendencies and intuition. But choosing rings you should take into account two factors: the age and structure of a hand. Here some advice from stylists:
Young girls should choose tiny ringlets made in a simple design. The gem should be graceful and neat.
More senior ladies are offered large ring with a big jewel. It is traditionally considered as a symbol of elegance.

Ladies with long and thin fingers can choose any ringlets, except for boring and featureless which can remain simply unnoticed.
The ring made in vertical design, visually will make longer short fingers. Such rings are the best choice for pudgy fingers.

Fashionable today glamour and glitter offer young men and girls to supplement the clothes with bright and large accessories. And if you are going to choose brooches and pendants to be fashionable, they should be massive and impressing.

Today nobody will name large bright adornments as frivolous. On the contrary, the modesty is not in fashion this season. Brooches, necklaces, rings, ear-rings, bracelets and other accessories should draw attention and admire, therefore don’t buy or wear small romantic chains of pure gold.

Massive adornments can be very large and very expensive. Especially, if they were created in Carrera workshop and contain a lot of gems and precious metals. More accessible and not less interesting things can be found in boutiques of Swarovski and Lalique weighty silver pendant with crystals can cost about $100-150.

An annual collection Belle Epoque Damiani has new ornaments: Orthodox Cross.

Damiani offers some models of crosses: from white gold with sapphires, with rubies and with emeralds. Magnificent jewelry wakens the new side of mystical feminity expecting for solution.

Cross Belle Epoque is made in fashionable today retro style, with elements of the Byzantine art. This unique combination emphasizes beauty and harmony of gems.

Glowing facets emphasize nuances of the jewels.

Italian Jeweler House Utopia has created collection with the loud name Swing - the pendant ornaments decorated with color pearls. The unusual shade and perfect form of large oblong pearls create feeling of lightness. White gold, brilliants and gems emphasize tenderness and purity of pearls.

Well-known Swiss Jeweler House Adler in the pearl collection drew inspiration in the Chinese wisdom that the pearl from the South Sea is a splinter of the Moon. Classical design is combined with the luxury of baroque Byzantine style, white gold and shine of brilliants in ornaments frame large pearls, each of which reaches from 11 to 16 millimeters.

In Roman Empire pearls were considered as a symbol of authority and wisdom, Indians used it as a talisman, in Europe pearls were put in the wine, served to the guest of honor, to show purity of intention. And today tenderness, lightness and a rarity of pearls are appreciated by connoisseur of high jeweler art.

This season pearls are again one of the main trends. The new collection of women’s watches from Bovet is combination of brilliants and pearls. Model Fleurier Pearl Watch blinds with shine of brilliants - 4,29 carats. Brilliants mark each sign on a nacreous dial. It is necessary to note, that pearls and Bovet watches are united by friendship already for a long time: in the century before last master of a brand made the watches decorated with perfect pearls for the Chinese court.

In jewels of the French brand Tahizea are used black pearls from Tahiti, which are a rarity entity. Clothed in gold forms and classical jeweler style, they show the true work of art.

Mixture of elegance and avant guarde is typical for the other French brand Misaki. This company works with cultivated pearls which are created using the unique technology SHL (Super High Lustre), patented by the company. Owing to it appear X-treme Lustre pearls. Heart of such pearl is the natural quartz nucleus. X-treme Lustre Pearls radiate the light, which many times surpass the shine of natural pearls. Romantic necklace Mirage and a necklace with ear-rings Amazone are true French jeweler classics of haute joaillerie.

The most exotic and always fashionable ethnic ornaments have always featured the large sizes and interesting forms.
By the way, usually such pendants, beads and bracelets brought from the exotic southern countries, cost for the women of fashion tens and hundreds times cheaper, than their design imitations in expensive accessory boutiques.

Large brooch – screamer of the season
Earrings, pendants and bracelets are worn always and everywhere, large brooches are special sign of the season.
Look only at Hollywood stars and other celebrities. Actresses have chosen large brooches, including unusual flowers from fabrics, and attached them anywhere - even on hats and cuffs. This accessory will be especially to the point, if it is fastened to a shawl or a belt.

According to Polynesian legends, the pearls are the drops of dew fallen from the night sky.

Having wide color scale, in 120 shades, the pearls since olden times have been the favorite material of jewelers, however its extraction have always been labor-consuming and expensive. For this reason already in the Middle Ages China has tried to cultivate pearls - pearls with a nucleus as the Buddha were especially popular. The method for pearl receiving was simple - in a shell they put a small gold sculpture, which in some years covered by a pearl shell.

This ordinary way has become widely spread in today’s smithy of cultivated pearls - Japan.

In Honshu, near Biwa Lake, also in Japan, experts raise denuclearized pearls. Cultivation of pearls is connected first of all to its popularity at jewelers. These pearls are beautiful with the certain set of qualities, while natural pearls have natural form, not always ideal, and a big cost.

Every color brilliant is completely unique product of the nature, skillfully opened to the world by the skill of the jeweler.

Sample gems are colorless; they are diamonds of the first water. Such gems are the most expensive and they are extremely rare in the nature. But there are other rarities among brilliants – gems, presented one of colors of the rainbow.

Color brilliants are not commonly beautiful; their ability to play doesn’t concede to colorless brilliants, but they have individuality, which is remembered once and for ever.

Today genuine connoisseurs of the beautiful include color brilliants in the exquisite collections. Any color brilliant, irrespective of the size and a shade, is unique with tones and shadows of the color, saturation, and brightness. From thousand diamonds only one has deep natural color.

The unique custom-made things become popular among more and more wide audience.
Two annual actions - exhibition London Rocks organized by Sotheby’s, and fair Goldsmith’s Fair - support prompt development of a jeweler art-direction.

In day of London Rocks’ opening Sotheby’s halls were full with the collectors who were interested in both art, and jewels, and just those who love jewels. Visitors were pleased with jewels the same as with works of art.

Exhibition Goldsmith’s Fair, carried out by goldsmith guild, annually throw together connoisseur of jeweler’s art from the entire world. More than 170 jewelers show their creations in heart of the London City, in the building of the middle XIX century which have been designed as a palace. «The most advanced and modern designers of the country gather here, - say Sean Lee, who have exhibited his works on both London Rocks, and Goldsmith’s Fair. - Coming here, you understand, whence comes an inspiration of the jeweler industry».