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Diamond In A Pearl Jewelry
Filed under: Jewelry
Prince sang about "Diamonds and Pearls" but what about diamonds in pearls? Chi Huynh, a gem and jewelry artist of Galatea: Jewelry by Artist in San Dimas, California has found a way to put faceted diamonds inside cultured pearls. As you probably know, cultured pearls are made by inserting a bead into the mollusk so creates layers of nacre over the bead. Chi Huynh wanted to put gemstone beads inside Tahitian black lipped oysters so that he could carve the pearls revealing the precious center. Unable to find any one to help him with this experiment in the French Polynesian Islands he turned to Vietnam. A few years later he was able to harvest Tahitian-like black pearls with gemstone centers. The most pearls are then carved and mounted in jewelry. The necklace shown here is a 10-10.5mm pearl with a .20 carat diamond and sells for $1,825.
[via JCK Online]
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