14K Ruby & Diamond "Dynasty" Necklace | 
| Brand: alle Fine Jewelry
Category: Jewelry
List Price: $12,000.00
Buy New: $10,039.00
You Save: $1961.00 (16%)
Rating:  1 reviews
Metal Stamp: 14k
Gem Type: Diamond
ASIN: B00014E3EY
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Product Description
Make your Pretty Woman feel like royalty while "walking down the street" or going to a ball. Our 14K yellow gold Ruby and Diamond Necklace is the perfect regal touch for that very special occasion. The exquisite Rubies weigh 7.20 Carat Total Weight. The Diamonds are Round Brilliant cut, SI1-SI2 clarity, G-H color and weigh 4.70 Carat Total Weight. This intricately designed necklace measures 17 inches in length and includes an independent appraisal. This is a designer piece so please call Customer Service at (800) 310-4441 for availability. You know she deserves the matching bracelet, number (GS-B-273-30) and earrings, number (GS-E-850-30) as well. Prefer Sapphires and White Gold? Try (GS-N-529-30). Are Emeralds and yellow gold more her style? Try (GS-N-558-30).
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Priceless Heirloom January 5, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
As an American boy growing up in France, I became mesmerized by an enchanting painting of an ancestor that hung never very far from the hearth. The painting, smudged by smoke and damaged by Vichy occupation of the chateau, showed a very thin and angular woman, her face like something reflected in the bowl of a spoon, festooned in bright stones that gleamed out still bright after the passage of many decades. "Who is this woman," I used to wonder out loud, until one evening, as my grandmother passed through the room looking for our vanished cat, "Gateau," I noticed that she wore the same diamond and ruby necklace as the ancestor in the old damaged painting. I persuaded my grandmother to sit down and forget about her eternal hunt for a cat who had died long before I was born, when she was still a young woman not even married to my grandpapa yet, and to tell me about the necklace she wore. She took my little hands in hers and, in a low, breathy whisper, told me how she had stumbled across these precious stones in a valise once. Amazon's 14K Ruby and Diamond "Dynasty" necklace looks like a lot like my family jewels; the resemblance is shocking enough to have made me drop my cocoa while leafing through the jewel pages this morning in an attempt to bring back, madeleine-style, the vanished days of yesteryear.
These diamonds are perhaps a bit more brilliantly cut than the ones my grandmother used to sport, but as she mentioned, her diamonds pre-dated modern mining methods so they seemed rough, scratchy, almost fungal in their savage brightness. You wouldn't want to wear them next to your skin, an aversion she averted by (normally) wearing a sort of wool ascot as a liner between her necklace and her body. The clarity here is superb, like drinking water from the nearby fountain at Lourdes when Our Lady wriggled her shepherdess' staff into the rocky ground on which Bernadette fed her sheep. I used to ask my grandmother what would happen to her diamonds and rubies when she died, and she said she would never die.
The rubies, in the Burmese style, have that distinctive pigeon's blood shine that befits a country ironically wracked by civil war. Rubies and diamonds, "blood and water," my dad used to say--he had one of those great Irish voices, like a poet. I think I'll order one of these necklaces one of these days, for if nothing else, like all the other "Dynasty" jewelry I have ordered, worn, and stored away in a vault, it will be fit for a king. If only I had a JPEG of my grandmother wearing this piece, darting after "Gateau," half-consumed with anxiety and yet, noblesse oblige always paramount in her fragile, gregarious mind, yet stopping for a minute to console a lonely and abandoned grandson who grew up without proper supervision in a country far from Long Island. I think I've come to a point in my life where I deserve the priceless luxury of a Dynasty heirloom.
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