The Duchess of Windsor's Jewels will Auction

As American socialite, when the King Edward VIII proposed to twice-divorced, he caused a royal scandal. The man is give up his kingdom for love,and never stopped lavishing his wife with jewelry.

It's been 23 years since the last auction of the Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, now Sotheby's will offer twenty pieces for sale in London on November 30. The total sale is expected to up to £3 million ($4.582 million). The above is a diamond bracelet by Cartier, that once belongs to Wallis Simpson,it is appeared in front of a Cecil Beaton portrait of her. The bracelet is expected to raise 350,000-450,000 pounds.

Jeanne Toussaint, Cartier's High Jewelry Director, created this realistic onyx and diamond panther bracelet designed in 1952. It's considered one of the best "three dimensional "great cats jewels of her.

The bracelet is expected to fetch 1,000,000-1,500,000 pounds ($1,520,000- 2,300,00). The completely articulated piece forms a "stalking pose" when clasped.

Jeanne Toussaint also created this flamingo brooch, decorated with rubies, sapphires, emeralds, citrines, and diamonds. It was bought by the Duchess in 1940. During the 1987 sale, this brooch caught the imagination of the world and became the emblem of the sale. It is listed with an estimate of 1,000,000-1,500,000 pounds ($1,520,000- 2,300,00).

The Windsors often incorporated their initials into the designs as shown in this emerald, ruby and diamond brooch by Cartier. This brooch is expected to realize 100,000-150,000 pounds ($152,000- 230,000). This piece was commissioned by the Duke in 1957 to mark their 20th wedding anniversary (note the Roman numerals at the base of the piece).

In addition to the Cartier pieces, the auction will also include a gold, mesh, ruby, turquoise and diamond purse by Van Cleef & Arpels. And a series of silver items and medals that were the property of Edward once, the Prince of Wales.

Cartier Secrets et Merveilles Landed Hong Kong In May

The jewelry brand Cartier annual climax - High Jewelry series grand meeting had started, this year the brand divides HJ into four queens subject specially, implication each position wears Cartier jewelry's woman that was honored queen,and was motherly model of the nation!

Cartier Secrets et Merveilles High jewelry series, represents mystical and magnificent. In order to untie woman's sky, the brand divides HJ into four queens subject specially, respectively be peacock queen, pearl queen, spirit snake queen and diamond queen.

Cartier HJ series

Peacock queen explains for the magnificent dream soaring, we must know that the peacock is king of birds in the Cartier animal kingdom, similarly it is symbolizing eternal and the multiplication; Jewelry master comes alive using peacock's lofty honored god marrow in the technique lifelike on the treasure; The yellow, orange, green and the blue color gem, scatter on the careful brooch, the finger ring and the bangle, and like opens colorful peacock wings.

For pearl queen is represent the beauty chase the rainbow, as if custom-made for the gentle female; Tassels pearl necklace, just likes jumping lightly the waltz dance, in the orange topaz and the brown diamond match lining, it has added a corona for these pearls, but also has the waterdrop shape cutting diamond and so on pendents!

Cartier HJ series

As for spirit snake queen, which is representative the sending orders person to resist mystical and the sexy female; No matter the snake-shaped necklace, or the delicate arms' spirit snake jewelry, which are displays feminine enchanting divine and wonderful spirit incisively; The brand using the technique of perfect, outlines the charm which spirit snake migration, holds up the head and winds around, and present the touch of the spirit snake by the platinum gold, the smaragdi and diamond etc.

Final diamond queen, it is focal point of eternal and the radiant, brand have selects each kind of creation material quality from the different collection gemstones, with the extremely perfect proportion and the symmetrical design, which is linked together queen's jewelry and flesh's royal crown, eulogizes the feminine loftiest noble style!

Cartier HJ series

The Cartier brand-new high jewelry series exhibition tour just held in China and Macao finished, it had started in May to landed Hong Kong before 15th, this charming HJ collection is over RMB 800,000,000 !

Oscar the best partner Cartier

For Hollywood actress, the Oscar ceremony is not only an annual report card revealed, but also fighting dress, slim stature battlefield,if you carefully read the multi-Oscar will discover a rule, although the black models are not error-prone, gorgeous color dress could grab the limelight at the moment, but every year it seems to be the platinum department dresses + Cartier luxury fine jewelry is the Queen that unbeaten on the red carpet ceremony . To look at the Oscar red carpet this year and in the past the best shape. The beautiful actress as sculpture perfect clothes and jewelry has become the focus of the scene.



Cameron Diaz

Dress: de la Renta
Jewelry: Cartier
Jewelry total: 2.11 million

Cameron Diaz, the blue-eyed big beautiful women, glittering dress against her that do not see her 38-year-old "old age." Diaz as always wearing the Cartier brand jewelry, earrings inlaid diamond Trinity against smiles relieved, and instantly murder of countless films, fingers Panthere ring is demonstrate her inner wild side blunt.

White, yellow and rose gold and diamond pave Trinity circle hoop earrings
White gold and diamond Peau ring - PT RING SNAKE SKIN BRW JNQ DIA
White gold, princess and round cut diamond Couronne ring


Jennifer Lopez

Dress: Giorgio Armani
Jewelry: Cartier
Jewelry total price: about 1.5 million

Jennifer Lopez has Latin flavor beautiful facial features, style smile and the world's most expensive body. Jennifer Lopez in this same choice of the Cartier jewelry as expedition altar partner. Simple luxury platinum diamond-studded earrings,ring and bracelet are perfect combination with unique design dress skirt,highlight her increasingly mature sexy too.

Tradition platinum and diamond clip earrings, Cartier London 1934
Panthere Maillon XXL white gold and diamond ring
Platinum and diamond line bracelet

Recalling previous Oscar red carpet, we can always found traces of Cartier jewelry from the actress in the best dress.


Anne Hathaway 2009


Anne Hathaway 2008

Dress: Valentino
Jewelry: Cartier

As the limelight of one of female star in 2009, , Anne Hathaway although have not to take to home the Oscar prize, but she was definitely won the highest level of attention, who was named "Best dress, "da self-cultivation white gold dress would be perfect show the stature of beautiful Annie, Cartier platinum diamond bracelet in the wrist have perfect fit for the princess temperament of her.


Rachel weisz

Dress: Vera Wang
Jewelry: Cartier

High IQ beauty Rachel Weisz was also choose platinum color dress that make herself conspicuous but not jump out in the Oscar-important occasions, which is emit low-key luxury, this rare diamond necklace is also from Cartier , "Jewelers of King" total let a woman keep wild.

Renee Zellweger

Dress: Carolina Herrera
Jewelry: Cartier

Renee Zellweger is not much beautiful, but its excellent acting, warm temperament and rich image of affinity won countless fans for her. Three diamond white gold Cartier bracelet on the right wrist is also exposure her valuable status.

The uninhibited soul of Men bracelets

Actor model

The world's most individual character actor Johnny Depp, he can be regarded as loyal fans of bracelets, hippies, and the west, Funny ... you can see on his wrists with variety of strange and personality bracelet. A charming man, he must understand that in the appropriate forum to express themselves with the appropriate decorations. Stereotyped and uninteresting man, what woman would be love?

Johnny Depp like wearing leather bracelet varies in width, coupled with his enthusiasm for Western-style clothing plus hippie are full sense of chic more.

The most important thing for man bracelet is Texture

For many men, they have crystal or gemstone beaded bracelet , but unfortunately, this trend has been OUT. This year the most important points of the most popular man bracelet is the metallic finish. Dull polish, weaving patterns and other metal surface treatment, for itself appears to be more eye-catching point for bracelets.

Cartier classic love series, which is the good bracelet to express affection to lovers . It use of the cortex, increase leisure taste and masculinity.

This bracelet of Tiffany has an excellent sense of geometry,it have rich visual effects, at the same time, without appearing cumbersome.

Ancient Chinese men basically do not wear bracelets, but the other side of the earth ancient Egyptian men is clearly more love to dress themselves. Digging in ancient Egyptian burial sites has been shown that they had a long history of technology manufacturing jewelry and other luxury goods. Ancient Egyptian men in particular like to wear bracelets. According to records, because the scarcity of silver in ancient Egypt, so silver bracelet was even precious than gold bracelets, but also has more sense of identity - we do not know there are number of Egyptian women bowed to the men's silver bracelet below.

In India, the most superiority people were not those who say, "I'm from New Delhi or Mumbai", but those live in one of India's most affluent states - Punjab, Sikh, who was born here and where they are, they will say "I come from the Punjab" ... the very avant-garde Sikh men in India are no longer save up hair and beard, weap head cloth, but it has retained an important symbol for identification,which is to wear iron bracelets. As we can see, iron bracelets for the local men is more important.

Bracelet / Bottega Veneta

Bracelet / Dior

Top 10 Global Brands Bridal Jewelry Great Show (1)

1. Cartier

This brand was called by England's King Edward VII as the "emperor's jewelers, jewelers of the Emperor," the famous brand in more than 150 years, it created many works of dazzling beauty. These works is not only creative boutique jewelry, but also has a very high artistic value, it is worth pondering appreciation, often because they had ownership of celebrities, which were covered with a layer of legend. Fron a huge necklace ordered from Prince India to the tiger-shaped glasses that go hand in hand with Duchess of Windsor, and large civilian Cocteau French Academy sword that full of symbols, Cartier tells one after another legend.

2. Tiffany

On September 18, 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany loan 1000 U.S. dollars as the capital, opened a company called Tiffany & Young's stationery and daily boutiques at No. 259 Broadway New York City, in opened the day's turnover is only 4.98 U.S. dollars; the property left behind by 3,500 million U.S. dollars when Tiffany died in 1902 . No wealth fall from heaven, from a small stationery boutique to today the world's largest jewelry companies, "classic" has become synonymous with TIFFANY, because there are too many people are proud to wear jewelry TIFFANY. It is a common sedimentary history of the development so far.

3. ENZO

Diamonds represent the steadfast love, it has always been considered to be witness the election of gifts of love on the emotional. As a result, the diamond also naturally become the most talked about things where a precious and beautiful. Each couple's love is unique, each beautiful combination also need the most special to commemorate,we are more hope for the old body can bloom in their most beautiful and unique styles when wearing the diamond! NASDAQ main board listed company on the solid background for ENZO brand is capable of achieving your dreams, by virtue of subversive leap of diamond technology, the avant-garde design that combination by international superstar designer and derived from ancient Chinese auspicious meanings , so that ENZO88 deservedly become the most glittering emblem in emotional season !

4. Oxette

The "Greek Goddess", on a quarterly basis can be put on her "new clothes." that from top designers from across Europe tailored. With 925 silver-based material, interspersed with South Africa, South America natural gemstones, semi-precious stones, synthetic stones and Swarovski crystal-type crystal, full of elegance and fashion. "She" in all product are complete design and production , whether it is rings, earrings or necklace, after the designer's perfect match, all make their unique qualities to be the greatest show. Oxette is the international recognized fashion jewelry brand, 100% Europe hand-made to create the beautiful and each product unique, excellent quality and superior design, it is worth every stylish woman-owned.

5. Boucheron

As the top jewelry brands of GUCCI Group, Boucheron was founded in 1858, its perfect cutting technology and superior quality of stones are known in the world, it is the industry leader in jewelry, luxury characterization. Now, Boucheron have become an international brand, in Europe, Russia, the United States, Japan, South Korea and China Taiwan and other places to open boutiques, and in mainland China opened its first boutique - Bund 18 shop. Boucheron is one of the world's few jeweler brand that consistently maintain high-level jewelry and watches exquisite craftsmanship and traditional style.

Hurun's 2010 "Best of the Best" Awards Announced Winners

In Hurun's 2010 "Best of the Best" Awards there were some clear winners including Cartier, Patek Philippe, Bentley, Giorgio Armani and Vertu.

Cartier was crowned the leading jewellery brand for the fifth year running, while Patek Philippe was named greatest luxury watchmaker. After a three year absence Cartier also took back the title of best jewellery watch from Piaget.

Meanwhile Giorgio Armani won the best fashion brand for the sixth year in succession and Vertu was rated the best luxury mobile brand. Vertu was such an outright winner that it was deemed in a class of its own.

In its sixth edition Hurun surveyed 383 mainland millionaires, each brand with assets of at least RMB 10 million ($1.5 million). 66 of those individuals had assets in excess of RMB 100 million.

Here's a run down of the other big categories:
Cars - The Bentley Continental Flying Spur wins the Best Super Luxury Car for Self-Drive category and the Rolls Royce Phantom for Business.

Cosmetics - Chanel leads the Best Skincare category followed by Dior.

Accessories - Armani and Hermes are the category leaders.

Private Banking - China Merchant’s Bank has dominated two categories, the Best Bank for Onshore Personal Banking and Best Credit Card Issuing Bank. HSBC is the best foreign bank.

Private Clubs - Chang’An is the Best Private Club in China, however there is a strong tendency for regional private clubs to make an impact. Mission Hills Golf Club is still the number one golf club.

Cartier declaration of love series

Screws marked with a series of "jewelry Emperor" Cartier is the best-selling works in the world's. This year, Cartier have lauched love endless promotion again the content of the classical design of the re-innovation, with the whole new series of bracelets, rings and necklaces, new charity bracelet, to continuing declaration of love. Rose gold texture, the magnificent colored gemstones, sparkling diamonds, black and white contrast, between innovation and tradition hit the perfect balance. Cartier Charity bracelet and part of the sales account will be donated to the China Children and Teenagers Foundation, China Orphan Care fund "baby, singing to you" charitable project.

Endless Love - a new charity bracelet

Unique charity bracelet gently mellowed, heart palmistry alliance, the haunted heart of temperature, declare an endless love. The sparkling color of diamond and soft light of Rose K gold are glorified. This delicate bracelet will be add the hyperchromic of the wearer of the wrist.

Love like Rose - Rose Gold Series

The new Rose K gold bracelet distributed endless love. She was brilliant, romantic roses golden light makes it difficult to resist. The bracelet is available in three styles: Shop inlaid diamonds, inlaid diamonds, and colored gemstones inlaid. Are all ambilight, precious extraordinary. A perfect oval shape, as well as better dissemination of the famous decorative screws unparalleled in modern, locking your eternal love. Bracelets can be worn alone, but also with each other. She will be filled with spiritual talisman, speak to the world that you love, loyalty and guarded. Rose gold ring is also the equally fascinating series.

Colorful Love - Color Stone Series

The latest colored gemstone bracelets and rings use variety of high-quality gems arranged a rainbow on the wrist from time to time. Fresh fruit color is difficult to resist, full of youthful atmosphere, relaxed and happy to write a beautiful, melody, all the time to promote the sweet of the love.

Love partner - Men Series

As a lover, the other half is also indispensable care, Cartier launched exclusively for men's big size series, lines is simple, fresh cool type, it is show quality men's masculine beauty, at the same time without losing the unique Cartier refined aesthetic. Whether Gold or white K gold, regardless of a ring or bracelet, classic is a permanent mind screw tags.

The new necklace pendant, the design of its screw key shape, screw with the classic bracelet exist side by side, becoming the perfect combination of nature itself.

Love seperate - Black and White

Black & White turnover, light and shade set off, like a deep night and the sound of day. Those rings from the precious black and white ceramics and the perfect combination of platinum and diamonds, Cecil connected, and seamless, as if the combination of feminine and masculine, Cartier proud of the history of Art Deco style of rebirth, in order to contrast the beauty of reflects the attitude of love.

The world's 5 rare gem Appreciation

The Great Catherine ordered the diamond necklace

Auction Date: November 17, 2005
Location: Geneva, Sotheby's
Valuation: 1,500,000 ~ 2,500,000 Swiss francs
Bid price: CHF 2,148,000

This is a diamond necklace collection from Russian royal family. Chronicles the history of the Russian royal collections once shocked the world. In 1719, the Great Peter search for diamonds, jewelry in the worldwide,and created the Russian government gem library, all the jewelry have been collected into this library. After following Peter the Great, the most obsessed with the collection of jewelry is the Queen Catherine. Women like men can command the world, but still not throwing love beauty nature jewelry, the Great Catherine love diamond abnormal obsession was crazy, and she be called professionals, on the diamond cutting and inlay process is highly demanding.In Russian history the most outstanding experts in diamond-cutting period was occured in the period of the Great Catherine. This magnificent diamond necklace was inferred that ordered in the mid-18th century for the Great Catherine, which is symbol of the Queen's beauty and power of the best testimony in the year.

We appreciate this diamond necklace, while it is not difficult to infer how the Russian royal life is rich and luxurious in the year.

Tiffany & Co. Emerald bracelet with diamond inlay

Auction Date: July 22, 2008
Location: Lundun Su Forbes
Valuation: 40,000 ~ 60,000 pounds
Bid price: 145,250 pounds

This is an emerald bracelet with diamond inlay that Tiffany & Co.'s launched in 1900, the entire bracelet length about 170 mm, from 15 natural diamonds constitute, bracelets back faintly discernible Tiffany & Co.'s logo, after years of sharpening, diamond is still long-lasting bright shining light. Tiffany & Co. Brand was founded in 1873 in the United States, its brand philosophy is to coordinate, uniform and order, integrated into a unique boutique, we can easily be found from the basis for this auction product. As for why the living bracelet auction in Europe, behind the story we do not know.

Cartier diamond bow brooch

Auction Time: December 4, 2007
Location: New York Sotheby's
Valuation: 40,000 ~ 60,000 USD
Bid price: 181,000 USD

This is a a pure diamond bow brooch from Paris Cartier descent in late 19th century , crafts for the 18K gold and silver inlaid diamonds. Lace bow brooch main body resembles the shape of a delicate butterfly knot, symmetrical "two wings" were inlaid with four old European cut round diamonds, two larger diamond weight about 3.6 carats and two smaller is about 3.5 karats.

This diamond brooch as a whole plump shape and elegance. King Edward 7 World Bank has been praised Cartier as "the emperor's jewelers, jewelers of the emperors", Cartier was founded in 1847, developed to this diamond brooch Chupin the late 19th century, Cartier has entered the glorious heyday.

Retro gold enamel necklace

Auction Date: November 6, 2006
Location: New York Sotheby's
Valuation: 50,000 ~ 70,000 USD
Bid price: 192,000 USD

When i Would like to introduce you to this retro gold enamel necklace, it would have mentioned the 18-19 century Roman jewelry masters Fortunato Pio Castellani (1794-1865), he and his two sons are well known to the world for their perfect art of carving and exquisite, in many excavated antique jewelry it can be found their works throughout the 18-19th century, countries bordering the Mediterranean. Which to build this jewelery Carlo Giuliano (1831-1895) was work for the Castellani, they have co-authored a number of classic masterpiece jewelry. This retro gold enamel necklace was Giuliano approximately 1860-1863 years according to a precise imitation Greek-style necklace in AD 300 years or so to modelled on . The retro gold dotted blue and green enamel flower materials, design complexity, subtlety. In 1872, the British Museum was bought from the Castellani's son, Alessandro.And now, Ms. Judith H. Siegel Collection.

Africa style necklace and brooch

Auction Date: November 6, 2006
Location: New York Sotheby's
Valuation :125,000-150, 000 U.S.
Bid price: 475,000 USD

Africa style necklace and brooch set around an Egyptian born in 1860, Renaissance is a set of gold, porcelain stone, glaze the perfect combination of scarab-shaped necklace and brooch. it is made by Castellani in Rome from 18-19 century studio, which showing that Castellani superior micro-mosaics, 16 scarab-shaped antique pottery to micro-mosaics fixed in a special geometry base.

The necklace and brooch is still maintained most of its original geographic features, showing ancient Egypt, in particular, the design style.

Noble Jewelry

Jewelry eyeglass/Cartier

For jewelry, in the concept of ordinary people, we usually thought of the scope of necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings four major categories. However, for those who broke the love of jewelry, of course, for the people that have enough capital "play" for those who can afford to jewelry, the scope of jewelry are much more open minded. The things you know or you don't know, all of them could use the world's most precious metals and gems to create, from the tables,chairs, tableware to the tape, sewing boxes, housekeeper pagers; from powder box, lip gloss box to glasses, hairbrush ... ... objects for themselves are embodied in a thoroughly aristocratic atmosphere, which is an sense inside from the most ordinary details of the disclosed quality and luxury. Christmas is approaching, even though we are still can not have them, but also for the time being the first feast our eyes on something, nobody will know, maybe tomorrow they are become the plaything things on our desk?

The luxury yaht model of Van Cleef & Arpels that made by gold, silver, enamel, jade, rubies and ebony,which the materials describe the ultimate picture of the last century the number one New York's most beloved characters, Mr. Eugene Higgins's yacht, he had treated the King Christian XI of Denmark, the Russian Grand Duke Alexis and the German Emperor William I on the board. This works of art that personally Van Cleef & Arpels manufacturing and commissioned by himself.

If someone's tape boxes are made by enamel, gold and diamonds, thus his identity and status is no longer need any extra language to go into! This beautifully produced tape boxes of Cartier's most stunning process is the shine like the surface that star rated exquisite lines of the enamel. The intermediate composition of gold and diamond star-shaped pattern make the tape is even more gorgeous.

Phoenix with open wings and elegant stay in Cartier's creations.
The Cartier jewelry crafts is a powder box Phoenix with open wings and elegant stay in Cartier's creations. This crafts, is actually a powder box plus lipstick case that specially designed for women.

The jewelry decoration is made by gold, colorful gemstone, that vividly portraying the old-fashioned camera modeling, the shape is cute but much luxury.

Pearl Cufflinks/Anna Hu
The round pearl with gold buckle, which showing a pair of slightly playful sense of jewelry cufflinks.

Jewelry Comb/Cartier
The hairbrush is made of enamel and diamond, and the handle craft is very fine and smooth.

Jewelry powder box/Van Cleef & Arpels
The powder box is one of the accessory for elegant ladies in last century. Cosmetics box containing a mirror, powder box, and other decorating tool. This rose in the powder box is decorated with roses cut diamonds, emeralds, rubies and yellow sapphires drop-shaped; the edge of box that inlaid with black and green enamel and inlaid with diamonds; the embedded base is casting by gold and platinum.

Ring watch/Dior
The metal ring that filled with fashion feeling has been designed into a mini unexpectedly small dial. Design sense is full, and it very takes away people's eyes.

Crystal hairpin/Lalique
The old hairpin that made by crystal,gold and gemstone, the whoke shape pattern is full the sense of classic.