When you think of an engagement ring, what do you picture? Perhaps a sparkling solitaire stone, or a halo of smaller gems encircling a central jewel. No matter the style, you’re likely imagining white ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. “We are agnostic whether people buy diamonds or color; we ...

Each year, millions of visitors crowd around a display case in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for a glimpse of one of the most legendary gemstones in the world: the ...

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but the luckiest gals on the block are the ones with rocks in shades of yellow, pink and blue. Colored diamonds are attracting more attention than ever, spurred ...

In a gilded ballroom at the Four Seasons hotel in Geneva last month, the world’s wealthiest collectors and their envoys gathered to bid on the final and most anticipated lot: a nearly 19-carat ...

Is the global turmoil driving sales of portable assets? Or is it just a love of rare jewels? By Jill Newman Alisa Moussaieff was in her London office on May 14, having lunch and bidding over the phone ...

When shopping for a diamond, whether for an engagement ring or a piece of fine jewelry, you’ll quickly encounter the term Four Cs—Cut, Color, Clarity, and Carat Weight. These four characteristics ...

White diamonds are still the stones of choice for engagement rings. But colored diamonds are catching up. Last month the Gemological Institute of America, one of the largest independent ...

Over the past decade the price of rare diamonds and gems has skyrocketed. Buyers have dropped tens of millions of dollars on jewels, and the competition is intensifying. It seems there's no limit to ...

Deformation, impurities, radiation — many factors lend unexpected color to a diamond. By C. Claiborne Ray A. In diamonds, unexpected colors may arise in a variety of ways. These include small and ...

When you think of an engagement ring, what do you picture? Perhaps a sparkling solitaire stone, or a halo of smaller gems encircling a central jewel. No matter the style, you’re likely imagining white ...