IT WOULD BE WRONG TO THINK JEWELERS WOULD ONLY MAKE JEWELERY. THE BEST MASTER'S TOOLS ARE THE WORLD A LOT OF FUN, STRANGE, UNUSUAL, AND AMAZING CREATIONS. On the eve of the New Year and Christmas I will tell you about some of them. MAY BE, THIS WILL HELP YOU SOLVE THE QUESTION WHICH SHOULD GIFT FRIENDS-ACQUAINTED-RELATIVES TO THE UPcoming HOLIDAYS.
Poor Yorick?
If you have friends with an exquisite and sophisticated taste, they might like one of the most expensive pieces of modern art - the skull, recently sold by the White Cube Gallery ("White Cube") for $ 100 million. Of course, not fifteen bones of the human skeleton were valued at this fabulous amount. British artist Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) - one of the most shocking artists of our time and the author of this work, on a platinum cast of the skull fixed 8601 diamonds with a total weight of 1106.18 carats and called it “For the Love of God” (I would translate it as "For heaven's sake"). In the forehead of “poor Yorick” a pear-shaped pink diamond of impressive size burns. Once such a magnificent posthumous mask went to a thirty-five-year-old citizen who lived in one of the European countries in the 18th century. For what he was awarded such an honor is not reported. There is not much more information about the buyer of the platinum masterpiece, it is only known that this is a certain investment group, the gallery does not disclose other details.
Also, part of the rights to his work remained with the artist. Yes, a platinum skull, of course, is a little expensive, but you might think of a more modest gift. 250 signature exclusive posters depicting this piece of jewelry are sold by the gallery at a price of 10 thousand pounds apiece.
Men's games
Now let's think about more traditional gifts for men. Everyone knows the Victorinox Swiss knives. Convenient and practical, with many blades, they have proven themselves well. I have one such knife, I take it with me when leaving for a picnic. Can you imagine a similar knife hanging on a neck on a gold or platinum chain? Not? Then admire. In honor of its 120th anniversary, Victorinox released a limited series of knives in gold and platinum cases, decorated with 430 diamonds weighing 4 carats. The price of a model made of gold is 50 thousand dollars, and of platinum - 70 thousand. In total, no more than 120 such "toys" from the Victoria collection will be put up for sale in the world.
Women things
If knives are made for men, then female jewelers have prepared such a miracle as a gold swimsuit for women. Although it is still unknown to whom he will bring more pleasure: to a woman who will be dressed in it or to men who contemplate this miracle “in gold”. About one month of work and a pound of gold it took the Japanese jewelry company Ginza Tanaka to create this work.
The lucky ones who tried on this swimsuit say that it is very comfortable and not at all heavy. This, incidentally, is not surprising. I personally have not yet met people complaining about the severity of the gold put on them. To become the most dazzling visitor to the beach can be "only" for eighty and a few thousand dollars.
And to reach this beach, at the same time, a dress was also created. You can supplement the kit for 250 thousand American money. The only thing worth considering is that in case of anything (puffs, clues, spots or a catastrophe such as “oh, the arrow went”), these things should be carried to a jeweler instead of dry cleaning.
All the best for the kids!
Well, what about the children who deserve all the best. What do they need? The hero of one of the old Soviet films rightly offered "ice cream to the children!" It's hard to argue with that, all children love ice cream. Even if the "waffle cone" is made of yellow, and the cold delicacy itself is made of white gold, and all this splendor is decorated with a scattering of diamonds. And although this ice cream is decorated with “cherries” on top, its main “highlight” is a yellow diamond weighing 5.63 carats.
A portion of "golden" ice cream was made by the jewelry company Kaplan International Inc. commissioned by the well-known American company Bruster's® Real Ice Cream ™, which, as you might guess, produces a cold sweet treat. All the proceeds from the sale of a golden portion of ice cream with diamonds, and presumably it will be one million dollars, will go to the account of the charity children's fund. So, about the children, I was not joking.
In addition to ice cream, all children like different toys. The jewelry house Ginza Tanaka that I already mentioned, together with the largest toy company in Japan, Bandai, made a platinum robot with a not very harmonious name - Gundam. This 125-mm transformer, consisting of 89 parts, is estimated at 250 thousand dollars.
Our smaller brothers
Well, if you want to make your four-legged pet happy, then you should hurry to the Harrods shopping center, which is located in London. Only there you can buy a dog collar modestly decorated with diamonds, the total weight of which is 14.46 carats, and a gracefully dangling bone made of pure gold. It will cost you a little more than a million dollars. Do you think this is expensive? In vain. This is not a record price for such products. For example, a lavishly studded collar of crocodile leather with the romantic name Amour Amour will cost eight hundred thousand more. By the words “lavishly strewn”, I mean 1,600 diamonds with a total weight of 52 carats, where the largest stone accounts for 7 carats. I think hardly any fashionista, even if she is not a fan of BDSM, will refuse to try on such a dog accessory for herself.
And now, Santa!
And finally, it came to the main character of the upcoming holidays. All the same jewelry house Ginza Tanaka pleased his fans and all lovers of the New Year and Christmas with an unusual Santa Claus. Foreign Santa Claus, along with a chimney (which, in theory, must be jumped to deliver a gift to the addressee) and a bag (with the same gifts), apparently made from the remains of a swimsuit, pulled as much as 20 kilograms of pure gold. This glamorous Santa's belt buckle is adorned with 23 diamonds.
Reindeers will deliver a Lapland bearded man under your Christmas tree for two million dollars.
In conclusion, taking this opportunity, I want to congratulate all readers of the Russian Emirates magazine on the inevitably approaching numerous holidays (this is not only New Year and Christmas, but also Valentine's Day, Defender of the Fatherland Day, the upcoming March 8, but there are still many reasons celebrate something in all its splendor) and recall that the most important thing in the gift is not grams and carats, but your love and attention.
With coming!
