Diamond market in USA

In the last three years the USA diamond and jewelery market dropped from 61.6 billion dollars in 2007 to 59 billion dollars in 2009.
Until 2008, 400 diamond and jewelery stores was closing each year. In 2008 that number is 4.5 times bigger. In 2008 1800 jewelery stores was closed. In 2009 according to the JIRI (Jewelry Industry Research Institute), 750 to 1500 diamond jewelery stores were closed. In the new jewelery retail reality only Wall Mart is doing good with the biggest market share in the USA diamond and jewelery retail business.

It is time to buy a diamond

Almost all business are hit by recession and the same is with a diamond jewelery industry. Before the recession diamonds and diamond jewelery was becoming more expensive. Every year the diamonds prices were highest than previous.

But not this year. The diamonds and diamond jewelery are with the same price tag as last year. The online diamond shops which are opening almost every day are with a better organization, they sell in the whole country with a broad customer base than the off line diamond shops and some of them even sell internationally. All this is influencing on the diamond and diamond jewelery prices in the good way. They becoming cheaper to buy.
Tips for best value:

- Choose a white gold instead platinum. It looks same but is cheaper.

- Choose diamond not bigger than 1 or 1,5 carats. It offers the best value for the price.

- Ask for a 30 day guarantee and GIA or other laboratory certificates.

Diamonds - They are strong and hard but still require care

It is best to live this job to professionals.
Take care for your diamonds by visiting the store where you buy the diamond jewelery or just go to the nearest diamond store.
The professionals will clean the diamond jewelery from any grease which can get on the diamond from your skin. The human skin have some natural oil and even the smallest touch can live some grease on the diamond jewelery. The ultrasonic cleaners are not a wise choice because can be bad for a diamond jewelery settings and even for the diamonds if there are some cracks. The professional jeweler will also check the settings and make any necessary repairs if needed.
The visits to the diamond professionals can be two or three times annually.
If diamonds get dirty and you just do not have a time to go to the diamond jewelery shop, mix some mild liquid detergent with water and clean the diamonds with a soft cloth. Some diamond jewelery shops are also providing a cleaning cloth for their clients. Avoid to wear diamonds if you just apply some body lotion or other body products.
Keep the diamonds separate because the diamond can be scratch only by other diamond. also the diamonds can scratch other jewelery. The worst case is to keep in the same jewelery box a diamonds jewelery and soft natural pearls.

Easy diamond deal

It seams there is nothing easier than doing a diamonds robberies.

A white male in his 20s, casually dressed, enter a Tiffany jewelery shop and after 45 minutes of talking and examining some diamond jewelery pieces, grabbed a 5.76 carat diamond platinum ring and stormed out of the jewelery shop. This happened on the December 28 and the police is still in the dark. The diamond platinum ring was worth $186.000.

The robber entered the jewelery store and he start to talk with a salesman about anniversary present for his brother. He asked the salesmen to show him some diamond watches, diamond rings and other diamond jewelery pieces. After 45 minutes of conversation and watching around the shop, he just grabed the most expensive piece of diamond jewelery and stormed out of the shop.

Diamonds marked the 2010 Golden Globes

The best proof that diamonds are matching the red carpet was this year Golden Globe Awards. Many of the nominees and attendees wore diamonds and diamond jewelery at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards. The circus happened on Sunday in Los Angeles.

A many styles and diamond designers were shoved on the red carpet. Some of the diamond jewelery was placed on some most unexpected ways.

Marion Cotillard was wearing a 12 carat diamond hair-clips by Chopard, Nicole Kidman had a 19th century diamond bow brooch by Fred Leighton and Rose Burne wore a diamond flower brooch designed by Neil Lane. Mo'Nique wore 15 karat Everlon Diamond Knot pave diamond circle link bracelet and Everlon Diamond Knot drop earrings.

The most glamorous in the diamond way of speaking was Carey Mulligan with a 19th-century, pear-shaped, diamond crown ring, 20 carat - 19th-century, diamond riviere necklace in her hair, 3.5-carat, pear-shaped, old-mine-cut diamond drop earrings and a 19th-century, diamond swallow cuff bracelet, all of which were designed by Fred Leighton.

Shop carefully for a Valentine's day

Are you planing to suprice the loved one with some diamond jewelwry? The Valentine's day is just a month ahead and you can start to do your homework earlier this year. The diamond jewelery shoppers can never be to careful. Here are some tips on this year Valentine's day shopping for the diamonds:

1. Choose your Jeweler carefully because you can spend 2-3 salaries for your diamonds.

2. Get familiar with a diamond rule of 4C. 4C stand for Carat weight, Cut, Clarity and Color.

3. Be shore that your purchased diamond have a independent grading report.

4. Secure your purchase with appraisal and insurance. You can also ask your diamond to be laser inscribed with a serial number or some personal message. It it is stolen this can be a way to identify and proof that you are the owner.

5. Are you shore what your beloved realy dream of? If you are not so shore you can buy the loose diamond and get the ring later.

6. Ask for a 30 day guarantee and return policy. If you need you can return the diamond or the jewelery for cash. Do not forget and lost the receipt for the diamond or jewelery.

Diamond trends in 2010 - colorfull and sparkling

2010 is starting optimistic and diamonds trends and fashion will be all about color and abundance.

Today trends are showing that more than 80% of the diamond jewelery purchases are made by female clients. But although this percentage males are still the mail clients because they purchase more expensive items than female diamond jewelery consumers.

Today woman taste is colorful and bold. A multiple necklaces around the neck and a dozen of bracelets around the hand. The white and colored diamonds are mixed in all possible combination. White diamonds with blue diamonds for a official dinner, rose diamonds with yellow diamonds for a hot date and pink with green for any occasion where the style need to be in the first place.

In 2010 women is going to shop a jewelry with more small diamonds in the different colors and shapes. Round colorless brilliants will be encased in the same piece of jewelry right beside a blue yellow princess cut or yellow marquise. The diamonds will be accompanied with less expensive smaller colored gemstones. This trends will be a blessing for the diamond traders and jewelery shops which have a nose for the market and hear what customers are talking, but also a nightmare for the traditional diamond makers.

In 2010 diamonds are definitely in. Despite the high prices the demand is slowly rising with a healthy and natural trends. The rough diamonds jewelery will also be a choice for a more than a few clients. Pearls are back too, but the colored are in bigger demand than white.

Until 2020 demand for diamonds may double

Steady demand by the old markets, secured by long term contacts and the new emerging markets in China and India can result by doubling of the diamond industry by 2020. 


The anonymous source close to the Angola diamond industry reveal the information about "Future diamonds demand in the world," discussed by the managing board of Endiama a state run company from Luanda, Angola.


The meeting took place on the celebration of the 29 anniversary of Endiama.


The Angolan diamond industry leaders were also discussing about the place of the Angola diamond indystry and position on the diamond market in the next 10 years.

iPhone, most expencive diamond phone in the world

So you have $3.15 millions but you really do not know what to do with this money? If that is the case you can spend this money on the absurd combination of cheap Made in China electronic covered in gold, platinum and diamonds.

That is exactly iPhone 3GS Supreme Rose, designed by Stuart Hughes. The iPhone casing is made from 18K rose gold with a platinum bezel. The bezel is adorned with 130 individual .75ct flawless diamonds.

What Are Blood Diamonds?

Blood diamonds are also known as a war diamonds, conflict diamonds or hot diamonds. This blood diamonds are usually mined in the war inflicted countries or in the countries with a civil war most of them in Africa. They are repeatedly used by the warlords, dictators or other forces which had a control over the area rich with diamond fields or diamond mines.
The money secured by the trade of the blood diamonds usually is used to finance the conflict, for buying a weapons and ammunition, for paying the solgiers and militias and for a coruption. Sometimes the control over the diamond fields is becoming a sole purpoce of the conflict or civil war. Some of the countries in which blood diamonds are used for the above mentioned purpoces are: Angola Liberia, Cote d'Ivorie, The Democratic Republic of Congo - Zaire, The Republic of Congo and Zimbabve.


In 2006 movie "Blood Diamond" there is a storry which exactly describe how diamonds are mined, traded and used for financing the wars in Africa. Altough the names of the war fractions and places are invented there are striking similarity with a real wars, military fractions and powerty of the workers which are enslaved to work on the blood diamonds mining fields.

Shopping for a Diamonds

Where to start?

Place.

If you are out on the market for a diamonds and you really like to have some good deal I will recommend to start with a place of buying. This is very important because the established brand name jewelery shops can go with crazy 200% overhead. So if you like to buy your next diamond jewelery in the most expensive city neighborhood and pay for the reception area, expensive carpets and nice receptionist be my guest. This can be a beautiful experience (and you can have it without buying;-)) if you can afford it and you are ready to spend a couple of thousand dollars more for the same product you can find on internet.
How to buy diamonds on Internet? Is it safe?

Quality of the Diamond

Diamonds quality is set bu the 4C rule.
Carat weight, Cut, Clarity and Color. If you like to brag around your neighborhood with the size of your diamond, you need to go with a carat weight as your main concern and not to worry about the other three properties of the diamond. This is very important for the wedding or engagement rings. The bigger the stone (or stones) the more happy your mother in law will be. Probably she is not a diamond expert and like 99.999% of the people in the world she can not tell the difference between colorless and near colorless diamond or know the difference between perfect cut and shallow cut.
If you like to invest in diamonds I recommend to buy smaller diamonds with smaller carat weight and take care for the color, clarity and cut.

One piece or more

One diamond of the let say 1 carat is much, much more expensive than 4 diamonds each with a weight of 0.25 carats. So you might like to consider a 3 of 4 smaller diamonds in your ring than one solitary with a same quality and carat weight.

Type of setting

Most popular settings are settings made of platinum, yellow and white gold. Gold can be cheaper than platinum more than 60% so you can have more money to spend on the diamonds if you choose gold instead of platinum.

Shape of the diamonds

Shallow diamonds are bigger in diameter than diamonds with a normal cut. Also pear, marquises and oval diamonds appear bigger than diamonds with other designs.

I hope my thinking was helpful and you will be happy with your diamond shopping.

Is it safe to buy a Diamonds on the Internet

For everybody who is out on the market for buying diamonds a simple question arise.

Is it safe to buy a diamonds on internet?

The simple answer on this simple question is DEFINITELY!

In the first days of the Internet there were many flaws in the web sites security, shopping, internet transactions and so on. But today the big online jewelry stores have the best technology to protect their clients from all online threats.

You can choose to buy your next diamond in the trusted neighborhood jewelry store where the sales person can have some conversation and few tips for you, but the big online diamond stores are cheaper so you are getting bigger bang for your buck. Also there are much more choices than in the stores near you.

These days there are a lot of reputable and trusted online jewelry stores on internet. My advice for you is when you buy your diamonds on internet you need to take care and select a reputable jeweler, choose a diamond with a GIA report, read carefully the return policy and make shore it works for you and find an independent appraiser who will verify that the diamond you just bought matches the certificate. Sometimes the appraisers are closely tied with diamond traders and there are cases where they will offer you to buy the diamond or diamond jewelry for you so they can get a commission for them. This is not necessary a bad thing if the appraisers are fair with you, but there are a lot of cases where appraisers have a conflicts of interest.

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.