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Luxury jeweler Harry Winston has joined De Beers and others in bringing their wares online. This is the first time that Harry Winston jewelry has been available online. The Harry Winston online salon showcases diamond jewelry including rings, watches, bracelets and cufflinks. One of the most expensive is this stunning necklace from the Harry Winston sunflower collection. The center stone of each flower is surrounded by eight round brilliant diamonds set in platinum. It is approximately 25.8 carats and sells for $135,000.

[via Fashion Week Daily]

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The Top 10 Jewelry Brands (As Ranked by Wealthy Consumers)

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Although anybody can take gold and diamonds and make jewelry, some jewelers have the gift of putting precious metals and gems together to form truly beautiful and inspiring pieces of art. Much like in the art world every person has their own personal tastes and preferences when it comes to jewelry, but of the best jewelers in the world have you ever wondered who was the best of the best? The Luxury Institute in New York did, and so they recently interviewed 500 wealthy luxury consumers and asked them to rate 20 of the world's top jewelers in order to come up with a ranked list of the top 10.

Harry Winston came out as the #1 most prestigious jewelry brand.

Do you agree or disagree? See the rest of the top 10 and then let us know in the comments!

Gallery: The Top 10 Luxury Jewelry Brands

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Harry Winston Goes Big On Diamonds

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry, Timepieces / Watches

Harry Winston is making some interesting moves in the diamond area. WWD reports on the fact that Aber Diamond Corp., the mining company that owns Harry Winston is officially being renamed to Harry Winston Diamond Corp. What makes this interesting to jewelry industry watchers is that the firm has a 40 percent interest in the Diavik Diamond Mine in Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories which produces 10 percent of the world's diamonds. Those diamonds are sold to Winston and other suppliers. Now that Aber is officially Harry Winston, every diamond that comes out of the mine becomes a Harry Winston diamond, tying those stones to one of the most recognizable names in the jewelry world. This is just another layer to the trend we recently mentioned in which branding the stone has become as important as branding the jewelry itself.

One interesting fact from the piece is that most of the diamonds that come from the Diavik mine are long and linear, so the company still has to outsource for round, pear and marquise-shape diamonds as well as other gemstones. Aber has also invested $2 billion in Canadian mining opportunities. Canada is the site of massive mining growth, not just for diamonds but for other gemstones such as rubies and sapphires.

Winston is also expanding their retail outlets into large 5,000 to 6,000-square-foot flagship stores, medium sized 2,000 to 2,500-square-foot stores and smaller 1,000-square-foot stores. All of them require deep pockets just to get in the door, the opening price point is set at close to $4,000 and of course, the sky is the limit. Check out the diamond-heavy wristwatch at right, it is a limited edition of 50 that cost $176,000 each. The company also uses only diamonds at the top end of the color grading scale, just diamonds graded, D, E and F (the scale starts at D for the whitest diamonds and goes all the way to Z).

The article also addresses briefly the huge robbery at Harry Winston Paris in October. So far no arrests have been made in the theft of over $28 million in diamonds.

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Harry Winston Glissiere Tourbillon

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

We're a bit late to the show on this one but the Glissière tourbillon automatic watch from Harry Winston definitely deserves mentioning. I had seen pictures of the watch before but it took a piece in Europastar to help me figure out why this watch is so unique. The Glissière offers a new way to automatically wind a movement, instead of the motion being circular it is side to side. The inspiration came from the piston motion of steam engines. One the dial side here are two platinum carriages which are guided by rails beside the gear trains, a bridge with a cut-out pattern of the HW monogram, and a flying tourbillon. The movement generated by the platinum pins isn't enough to wind the barrel spring so on the back there are two other methods of winding in the shape of fans rising and falling around a central access. It takes around four hours to completely win the barrel spring which has a reserve of more than 90 hours.

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Harry Winston Perpetual Calendar Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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It seems like a lot of major watch companies are coming out with perpetual calendars this season. The latest is from Harry Winston. it has an automatic movement with second timezone indication, retrograde day and month, moon phase and leap year complications. The large watch has a 41mm case done in white gold and has front and back sapphire crystals. The watch followers on the Harry Winston forum are all abuzz about it. Like some of the posters over there, I have issues with the lugs and the dominance of the case. I also don't love the layout of the dial. I would move the moon phase to the left hand side of the dial so that it doesn't take a chunk out of the time indicator.

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Harry Winston Opus 6 Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Here we are already in 2007 and somehow the Opus 6, the latest Harry Winston masterpiece unveiled last spring slipped under my radar. Now I see why. While I loved the Opus V, the result of a collaboration with Felix Baumgartner, the Opus 6, a collaboration with Greubel Forsey just doesn't leave me as swoony. It's impressive, a huge white gold case features a double tourbillon that has a one minute cage rotating inside a four minute one inclined at 30° from the horizontal. The time is determined by reading the three small discs at the top of the watch.

You can see booth pics here. Just six of these watches have been made. The watch is an amazing accomplishment but perhaps it's that incline that makes it seem too thick. To my taste it just seems like several elements are combined together without any cohesive design sense. The Watch Quote has an in-depth feature on this watch complete with the design sketches that makes me appreciate, if not love, this watch.

And oh yes, there will be an Opus 7, to be shown at Baselworld this coming April. An interview in GMT with Hamdi Chatti, CEO of Harry Winston Rare Timepieces gives no clues about what the new Opus 7 will look like, only that there will be one. I also like that in the interview he mentions that he is committed to creating a Harry Winston watch that is "both radically feminine and intensely horological." Now that would really make me swoon.

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Harry Winston Westminster Tourbillon Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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The newest watch from Harry Winston isn't just pretty, it sings. The Westminster Flying Tourbillon was created to honor Harry Winston's new salon in London. The watch not only has a tourbillon it also has a minute repeater which chimes the same notes as the clock tower on the Palace of Westminster. The wearable masterpiece has four cathedral gongs for the four notes in the tune of the Westminster chime which are fixed around the movement. The watch has a 70-hour power reserve and the movement is visible through front and back sapphire crystal. There are just eight of the the 18K rose gold watches available as well as a gem-set version.

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