Tiffany & Co. Diamond Cell Phone

Do not hope for a breakfast at Tiffany & Co. but you can always buy your new diamond jewelry, but also a timepieces, china, silverware, stationery, fine crystal, flatware and believe or not a cell phone with more than 20 karats of diamonds. The phone is totaling a 400 small diamonds which total weight is a little more than 20 carats! This phone is one of the fifteen in the new cell phone line of Softbank Mobile. In early 2008 Softbank Mobile offered cooperation to Tiffany & Co on the project for a very expensive diamond encrusted and not much tasteful cell phone. Tiffany & Co did not hesitate to embrace the whole project. The price tag for this Tiffany Softbank cell phone was set to $94.000, but later the same year the new price tag of $130.000 was announced.

Only 10 Softbank 823SH Tiffany cell phones are made, each of them have 537 small diamonds with a total weight of 18.34 carats.

Investing in Diamonds

Diamonds are some of the most beautiful and extremely rare substance available in the world today and there is no recession on the business with diamonds. Diamonds today use is growing in an unexpecting ways so they can be found on the places where nobody expect or even thing just a decade ago.

For example, the diamonds even find their place on the somehow very new technology like cell phones. There are dozens of cell phones from different producers which are fashioned with diamonds and other valuable and precious stones.
Some of the most valuable gemstones are colored diamonds. They price is determined by the 4C rule, but color of the diamond also have a role. Even the trades with a diamonds have strict rules; the auctions where high valued diamonds are selling can be very unexpected and exciting events.
The price for the exceptionally fine gemstones like colored diamonds is almost impossible to predict. The true value is determined by the wish and cash of the potential buyer. These moments are making diamond business and diamond investments not only a business but exciting lifestyle for everybody which can afford to play this game.
Investors in diamonds are no short time players because diamonds are long term business (that is the try meaning of the song: Diamonds are forever:-)).
Just for example, 20 years ago a first class pink diamond could be bought for $70.000 per carat. Today the same diamond can be sold for over $0.5 million per carat.
The highest price paid for a diamond per carat was in 2008, at the Christies Auction House. The 3.73 carat Fancy Vivid Blue (on the picture) was sold for a $4.95 million, which is $1.3 million per carat!

Great Diamond video by GIA Diamond Grading Guide: How to Buy a Diamond

GIA Diamond Grading Guide: How to Buy a Diamond
Great educational and informational video from Gemological Institute of America. In a simple and understanding way explains all about 4C (Color, Clarity, Cut and Carat weight). I enjoyed this great video about diamonds and I warmly recommend to all who are purchasing diamonds in the near future.

What I need to know before buying diamonds or diamond jewelry

The rule of the 4C’s.

There are four variables for everybody who likes to buy diamonds or diamonds jewelry and watches: Carat, Color, Clarity and Cut. COST is determined by these four variables.

Be careful where you are buying your diamonds. Diamonds can be a simple present for the dearest ones in your family, but also can be a sound and long term investment. When you buy diamonds to ask for a certified diamonds is a MUST. Uncertified diamonds can not be that worthy or the quality can be lower. The name and reputation of the laboratory which is certifying the diamonds is also important. The most famous and most reputable certification laboratory for the diamonds is GIA. GIA stand for Gemological Institute of America. GIA is running the business in terms of providing a methodology how to compare and to classify diamonds but also suppliers, dealers and jewelers. So GIA is not only a laboratory but also is the world biggest authority for diamonds and other precious gems. Appraisal by G.G. is different than GIA GTL which is just a report by the graduate of the GIA School.

The other thing you need to know is a Rap Sheet, which is Standard report of Diamond prices. This is a price list of the wholesale diamonds on the market. Of course there are market fluctuations so the Rap Sheet is not that important if you shop single diamond or a piece of diamond jewelry. The best way to shop for a decent diamond is to buy a certified diamond. Do not shop for brand names. Just check the 4C and buy the certified diamond with a highest 4C.

Diamonds - the harmony of substance.

Diamonds...
A magic of the substance and light.

Even the word diamond have a magic spell on the listener. When you say diamond - everybody open their eyes to see this magical substance.
The word Diamond is from the Greek origin and means unbreakable. Diamonds are the most beautiful and stronger allotrope modification of the carbon.
In diamonds the carbon atoms are connected in the strongest bond which is called diamond lattice.Diamonds are the most rear game stones and also the most beautiful.

Diamonds can be found in a lot of categories and the most expensive are diamonds with the best clarity.
Today diamonds are used in the industry, science, but there are no man or women on the planet which do not know diamonds as jewelry.